The world is not your religion; politics is not your God.  

We see something that goes against our views on Facebook and have to comment or argue, but you cannot change hearts! Allowing the noise of the world to become to noise within our hearts is not what God desires. Renewal and conversion of hearts will not come through laws but through…

I remember writing in my journal about my heart and telling God I wanted to give him my heart. Don’t be fooled, though. This was not the kind of “give God your heart” that he actually asks for. But, I found that journal entry a while ago. I read it. And I felt sorry for the young college girl who wrote it…

“I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Lk 5:32). Why me? Because Christ did not come for the righteous. He did not come for the people who have it all together. He did not come for those that have never sinned or never fall short. Jesus came to call SINNERS to repentance.

I felt God answer my question this weekend. “Why me?” He said…

Acknowledging how transformative learning about the realities of Heaven and Hell were, I found myself asking “Where is Hell?” NOT “Where is Hell” in terms of a physical location… but where is Hell in the Church?…

There was one day where we were out running errands. It was one of those days where we have only a couple hours and a lot of stops to make… and with kids unloading and re-loading… the stops take forever! Well, we passed this same local Catholic Church and she asked…

I held her in my arms and went over to sit in the pew; when asked what I needed prayers I said, “that I could be a good mom.”

Have you ever thought of Mary and wondered how can I relate to someone who was perfect and sinless (which she was!) when I am not? This was something I often wondered. In our early relationship, she was this far away woman who…