I was chopping up some vegetables for salad and was delighted by this surprise sighting of the Sacred Heart.
It was a little kiss from my guardian angel to send up a grateful prayer.
Where have you seen God this week?
I love a gloomy day every once in a while. It keeps the glorious sunny days fresh — I can’t appreciate the beauty of a sunny day if I don’t have its contrast.
But to be fair — I could say the same about the sunny days — they help me appreciate the beauty of an overcast or rainy day. I love a good storm. I love the monochromatic colorless day that, in its rarity, sparkles in a natural black and white filter.
I love to put on a ridiculous outfit of fuzzy socks, sweatpants, and flannel shirt, the more mismatched the better, and run a pot of coffee or brew a pot of tea, and sit somewhere near the gray light and read. Or pray. Or write. Or all of it, to the soothing soundtrack of a soft rain.
I’m so excited to share with you that a group of bloggers (and me, too!) will be praying a novena to Our Lady of Charity starting on August 31st. These simple prayers, translated from a traditional novena in Spanish, will be posted at various blogs by some beautiful women with a deep love of the Blessed Mother.
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At the end of the novena I’ll give away a signed copy of Our Lady of Charity: How a Cuban Devotion to Mary Helped Me Grow in Faith and Love to a random winner selected from the active newsletter list or comments on the blogs.
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