I just pre-ordered it myself and can’t wait to get it and read it.
You’ll want to do the same; I promise.
I’ve been a longtime fan of Lisa’s work, starting with CatholicMom.com, through two other books — The Handbook for Catholic Moms and A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms, her blog at Patheos.com, and now this exciting new book, The Grace of Yes.
You can read all about it at Here.
Never mind that I always said he was a hack. My friend Jeff would be amused to know I’m coming around. Look, I’m even celebrating Shakespeare Day on my blog.
h/t to Street of Dreams' Rachael Sanford.
Remember bulletin boards in elementary school? Before those teacher supply stores sold all the specialty borders and letters? Before chalkboard paint was a thing?
I saw a hand-lettered board just the other day. The poorly stapled message would have benefitted from a level. It annoyed me, possibly because it was shoddy work, but more likely because I was already annoyed by someone on Twitter.
True story. I was annoyed by a stranger on Twitter.
Unfollow you might say. Block. Well, yes. That’s an option. But it got me thinking about this person who is, quite possibly, a chronically unhappy individual and is constantly posting rounds of negativity, whining, and complaints. It’s a sad cycle of unhappiness, followed by complaints of unhappiness, which can’t possibly lift anyone’s spirit, so back again to a renewed round of unhappiness.
Unfortunately, it affected me.
I got to thinking, how often do I post something negative on Twitter because it is a convenient sounding board and forget someone is going to read it and perhaps have a reaction to it?
Do I really want to be that person spewing the garbage all the time? So I decided to make my own bulletin board here, reminiscent of the kinds I saw in the hallways at school:
