“Everybody’s broken”
“Well, everybody’s broken and in need of healing,” my father-in-law said to me this weekend while he sat across a picnic table from me at my niece’s birthday party. And he’s right. Not everybody suffers from the same thing, but everybody...
Talking to Your Kids About NFP & NFP As Self-Care
Today I have two great things to share with you from other bloggers: the first is a post about talking to your kids about NFP by Charisse Tierney, a writer over at Paving the Path to Purity; the second is an audio recording about how charting your fertility may be the...
“Why We Still Practice NFP – After 15 Years of Marriage”
It’s a big week around the Catholic blogosphere! This week is Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, and the feast of St. Anne & St. Joachim — two of my favorite saints! To commemorate all of the above,...
“Ask me a question”
Instagram released a new feature in Stories and I had a little fun playing around with it last week. It’s called, “Ask me a question,” and it basically allows the people who are following you and watching your Stories to ask you a question and give...
Vulnerability in Marriage, How God Prepares Us, and How He Uses our “Failures”
This week’s edition of must-reads: 1. “What we’ve learned is that marital love is a total and complete gift of self. And sometimes the gift of self that you would like to give–that gift of the self that has it together and is in control–is not...
The Patron Saint of (Seemingly) Unanswered Prayers
Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of people share that their patron saint wasn’t just someone they sought out for one reason or another, and it wasn’t just their namesake saint, but that it was a saint who kept appearing in their life over and over...
Faith: The (Only) Authentic Way to Make Sense of this Life
This week’s edition of must-reads: 1. “During this time of waiting I have been reminded to be gentle on myself, I don’t need to be a mom to have a mother’s heart. I have purpose in being tender and loving to my husband, my friends and my family....
When God’s Power is Strongest Within Us & For Us
Some saints are hard to relate to, but when (St.) Paul says he begged God to relieve him of his suffering, I’m like, “You and me, both, Paul! You and me both!” More than most things, I get this — this prayer and begging for relief, and...
Where we find Happiness, the Grace to keep going, and the Answers to our Pain
This week’s edition of must reads: 1. I saw another Catholic Facebook page post this sentiment last week, and I really can’t agree with it: that a Catholic woman finds her greatest happiness in the approval shining in her husband’s &...
Arise: to Love & Service
Years ago, my initial response to stories about how Jesus healed someone would quickly be to ask, “But why not me?” Now, after much time (and prayer, and discernment, and reading – and talking with friends & family), I realize that none of us is...
(The Spirituality of) Waiting, The Power of Patience, and How to Have a Happy & Long-Lasting Marriage
1. “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing.” It waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” — Fulton J. Sheen This quote on patience reminds me of this great read on waiting,...About Me
Hi, I'm Annie! I'm a Catholic wife, writer & producer, and I work from home on a prayer ministry I run with my husband. I also write about, and share, some of the best things I find about living an authentic Catholic life as a woman & wife.
