Something to Think About
The Freedom of Prayer
When I was writing The Prayer List, I asked our daughters (now adults) what they remembered about family prayer from their childhoods. Ellen promptly responded by reciting the prayer...
Spirituality
Prayer with God the Father
When my children were young and had their friends over to play, I would not necessarily join into their conversations. When they were playing together, they wanted my ideas...
Something to Think About
Training Catherine
Catherine is a fairly new volunteer at the thrift store. I have taken her under my wing to train her in the spiritual path of the Society of St....
Reflections
Explaining Thanksgiving
When I was in college, I studied abroad for a year in Madrid, Spain. The father of my host family was a teacher in a grade school. In the...
Reflections
Fasting from Things: A Limit of 20
An extraordinarily beautiful donation came into the St. Vincent de Paul thrift shop once. A woman gave us a box of over 100 silk scarves, all colors and sizes,...
Reflections
Story Hoarder
We get donations from families of deceased hoarders occasionally at St. Vinnies. They bring in boxes and bags of everything imaginable, most of which should have been discarded decades...