Christ Renews His Parish, AKA "CRHP"
Boy am I grateful tonight that I went through a CRHP (Christ Renews His Parish) retreat last April, and decided to join the formation for the team to give the next retreat which was last October. The...
View ArticleLiving With Fear
Today, I took my husband to have his CT scan of his lungs, so they can better decide what the less than 1 cm "thing" they saw at the base of his right lung while doing a routine MRI of his abdomen is....
View Article7 Quick Takes Friday
Inspired by Jen over at Conversion Diary, I have decided to try this "7 quick takes friday" thing I see on so many blogs. How hard can it be, right? Right?..........1) Autoimmune disorders are frisky,...
View ArticleBoy Howdy What a Week!
And it hasn't been a good one. I am in desperate need of a break, Dear God, for just a day or two, from all the incoming bad news and devastating horror. My husband was removed from the transplant...
View ArticleThe People God Puts in our Lives
I have certainly felt the calming touch of God, our Father this past few days as he as blessed us abundantly with people to help us wade through this bleak time period.When I went to Mass last Sunday,...
View Article7 Quick Takes Friday
1) I have no earthly idea who all of a sudden my blog will not allow me to reply to comments or add my own comments--when I try, I get a combox that is cut off at the top and unclickable and I cannot...
View ArticleSchoenstatt Pilgrim Shrine
Today was a nice day for me, relatively speaking. I git to go with a couple of sweet ladies from my church to another area church for Mass, a Marian lecture, a peek at their neat gift shop (!) and...
View Article7 Quick Takes Friday--on Saturday
Ok ok, so I'm a day late for 7 quick takes, but I have been so busy and drained I can barely drag around these days to read other people's blogs, let alone come up with 7 coherent ideas of my own, lol....
View ArticlePope Benedict XVI and Ash Wednesday
Like many of you, I was surprised and saddened to hear of our Pope's resignation of his office a couple of days ago, starting at the end of this month. I was not yet a Catholic when Bl. JPII died, but...
View Article7 Quick Takes Friday
1) What are you doing for Lent? Or NOT doing? I was going to try not raising my voice with my 13 year old but I don't think that's going to work. So, now I have to come up with something else. And...
View ArticleBeauty in Darkness
Although I did not know it at the time, I can see so clearly now why the Lord led me to my Catholic faith two years ago. I did not know how much I would need Him, but He did. He led me right to where I...
View Article7 Quick Takes Friday
1) Some dear friends from my CRHP group committed to fast a meal today for my husband and son, and several of us carpooled down to our diocese's cathedral, St. Mary's, for the noon rosary and mass...
View Article7 Quick Takes Friday
1) God puts exactly the right people in our lives at exactly the right time we need them. I am constantly amazed and warmed to the cockles of my heart by my beloved friends from Church, and their...
View ArticleA Tragic Loss
In future post, I will go into more detail but right now I just wanted to let some friends know that I lost my beloved husband, Robert David Wolf on March 26 to cancer. We knew his time was short but...
View ArticleThe Funeral
Today was my husband's funeral. It was a lovely Catholic funeral mass in the church, followed by interment at Our Lady of the Rosary cemetery in Georgetown, Tx--a beautiful cemetery with wildflowers,...
View Article7 Quick Takes Friday
1) Hanging in there. Trying to hang in there. Slipping off pretty regularly, but trying.2) I took some stones with words on them to the cemetery yesterday to place on my husband's grave. One said...
View ArticleNot One Bit Strong
I was reading my fellow blogger Jen Fulweiler's blong today over on Conversion Diary (I would make that into a clickable link but I don't know how--someone please tell me), and firstly I want to...
View Article7 Quick Takes Friday
Ok, I promise not to be excessively depressing and morbid today though it's hard, really it is. But I don't want to drive everyone away when I just started blogging. Still it was hard to take my...
View Articlewhat to do when someone's spouse dies
I read this on another blog and I hope they forgive me for reposting their ideas here but I thought they were perfect ideas and that's all I have the strength to say today. Here is the post: here's...
View ArticleThe Sadness
I am a widow, I am not a wife anymore. I no longer have the right to check "married" in the "marital status" blocks on various forms. I have no partner. No one to listen to me read them interesting...
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