tulips
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What If – Raised Catholic episode 70
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 70: What If? Hello friends. By the time you’re hearing this episode we will be fully into the Easter season, so happy Easter! I hope the day was a wonderful one for you and yours,…
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‘Tis the Season – Raised Catholic episode 23
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 23: ‘Tis the Season Well, hey, friends. Did you ever have a word, a phrase, an object, or a song just call out to you in different places repeatedly on multiple occasions over a short period…
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Let’s Talk About Lent – Raised Catholic episode 10
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 10: Let’s Talk About Lent Well, hello friends. As I’m recording today’s podcast, we are just about one week into Lent of 2021 and I have some thoughts. I bet you do, too. Because of…
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February
February is my favorite month, but it hasn’t always been that way. In the last few years, I’ve noticed that I like December far less than I had before and that by September, I feel a decided shift toward negativity. Today I looked at the recently picked tulips scattered around my home curated in their vases, noticed…
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Cradle
I’m a Catholic music minister, and I’m wearing gray as I stand at the front of the church and sing the opening notes of the entrance song. A gentleman from the funeral home leads pallbearers with the casket down the aisle, and following them are a group of tearful mourners, wearing black and clinging to…
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Arrive
During the quiet, still time of a yoga class known as savasana, I often experience a picture or clarity that helps me make sense of where I am in life. For a long time, savasana brought me a picture of myself in the deep water, and showed me the ways God was revealing Himself and…
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Oceans
I am almost afraid to tell this story. It’s a story of promises fulfilled and prayers answered, but mostly it’s a story about the nature of life and the nature of God. Life is unpredictable; it bends and moves in twists and circles, yet, through it all, God is steadfast. Something I know now for…
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All Along
Last October, I planted four tulip bulbs along my front rock wall because I needed to see how God could bring new life from something that looked dry and dead. It’s been a long winter. We’ve had wind and icy rain, broken branches and uprooted trees, and a good amount of snow. Some days I…