photo by Jordan Whitt on Unsplash In this month of St. Valentine’s day with all the candy hearts and teddy bears on display in every grocery store, people can get confused about what love really is. They can confuse it with lust or at least think...
In the United States of America, we value independence and self-pride, but pride is not a virtue—at least to Christians−and humans were created to live and work interdependently. We almost think of humility as a weakness, but we are more likely thinking of false modesty...
If you decide to share what you’ve learned about strengthening your relationship with God, realize you will probably be tested in that very belief. I’m writing about trusting Him, yet I listened when the evil one taunted me with negative thoughts and fears. I realized...
“I surrender all, I surrender all, all to thee my blessed Savior, I surrender all.” I love this song and most often sing it when tension occurs between what I want to accomplish and what I’m able to accomplish, thus frustrating me. I’ve learned to...
I used to give extra credit once a week on high school quizzes if my students wrote word-for-word a quote I’d given them with their vocabulary list that week. The only quote I ever gave attributed to “anonymous” was this one. I wish the author...
One thinks of childhood as a time of joy and trust, but is it really? Speaking on his television program, G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense on EWTN, Dale Ahlquist said this: "Youth is a time when every disappointment seems like the end of the...
