Don’t put that in your mouth! Don’t eat that off the floor! Wash your hands! Those statements are too familiar for anyone with kids. As I write this, I am riding on a light rail train that has the scent of urine in the air. After a long day, it will be nice to take […]
Life is filled with many questions and probably the greatest question of all is, “What’s the meaning of life?” We all long to find some purpose to our existence. Well, my answer to that question is that the meaning of life is to know and love God and to love your neighbor as yourself. Why […]
Every day we have an interior struggle of good vs evil. We can be inspired to do good and tempted to do bad. The gift that we are given by God is free will and we get the final say as to what force we let in, good or evil. The one caveat is that […]
“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” This opening line from the soap opera, Days of Our Lives has a lot of truth in it. Everyone has a finite amount of sand in our own hourglass and every day we grow closer to running out of time. Throughout our life, […]
Life is busy. We are always doing something from our long to do list. Sometimes there doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day to get everything done. We all have goals and aspirations in life, but what are we really looking for? Don’t we all love the feeling we get when we buy […]
Ever since man and woman committed the first sin of pride, our souls have been tainted. Baptism wipes our soul clean from all sin and opens us up to receive the sacraments. Jesus once again shows us the way to navigate this life through His baptism. He didn’t need the sacrament, but by receiving it, […]
Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus came into the world and gave us his whole self. When Jesus comes into our own little world, how do we respond? Do we foster our relationship with Him by giving our gifts to Him like the magi or do we try to remove Him from our lives like Herod? […]
