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By Hilary Scheppers     Prayer before reading: Thank you for this day, Lord, where we can learn about who You are through Your written Word. Thank you, Lord, for this community of women [...]

By Sherry Antonetti    “Speak Lord, your servant is listening.”   I thought about how we might try saying this before the Eucharist while in adoration.  How often do we ask God to listen to all [...]

By Sherry Brownrigg     My grandmother lived to be almost 104 years old. She was a witness to incredible technological advances that happened in the twentieth century and even lived [...]

By Sara Kohl     This past Advent I reflected on how backward the liturgical year seems to be: we end the New Year with the glory of the Lord, Christ the King, only to start the new [...]

By Lynda MacFarland     I’m studying the Old Testament right now, and one thing this has led me to ponder is that God’s will for all creation is for blessing, which means the power of [...]

By Alyssa Bormes along with Kelly Wahlquist & Allison Gingras     Every now and then, it is good to make cookies. And it’s even better when it includes coffee, a sleepover, and four [...]

By Alyssa Bormes     I remember the glory days of church bingo at the St. Mary’s Bazaar in Aberdeen, S.D. when I was a little girl. Don’t get me wrong; I would still take a spin on the [...]

By Rose Sweet     I was in my forties when I realized that all my life I had only been “dating” God when he had been waiting for my full “marital” surrender. I thought I was intimate [...]

By Sarah Damm   I quietly lay there, waiting to see my baby’s heartbeat on the ultrasound screen. The technician, very compassionately and professionally, informed me that there was not one [...]

By Marge Fenelon     I’ve just returned from a speaking engagement in Ireland – a great blessing and honor on every front. I had the further blessing of being accompanied by my husband [...]