Category: Faith
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Daring Greatly
Throughout this entire postpartum period, I realize I have been consumed by fear. Fear of failure. Fear of giving up. Fear of being an imposter. Fear of being not enough.
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To Be a Light
A Short Story about St. Maximilian Kolbe You didn’t know me. You didn’t know my name, my heritage, my religion. You knew that I had a wife and two sons after I cried out, begging humanity for mercy. You knew that I faced certain death amidst the harsh, cold, prison walls. You did not…
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Beauty in the Broken
My body was literally attacking itself. It wasn’t functioning as it should, again, and it was affecting my ability to care for my daughter. I was angry, I was hurt, I was broken.
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Marriage and the Universal Vocation of Motherhood
My experience with discerning religious life and entering into marriage have taught me that every woman is a mother. Every woman is called to be a mother, though her motherhood is expressed differently and uniquely. Reading Edith Stein’s Essays on Women has confirmed what I have known in my heart–that every woman, no matter her…
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For Nothing is Impossible with God: An Update on Our Journey with Infertility
This is a post written during my pregnancy with Madeleine that I had not gotten a chance to publish. Many of you may know by now that we are expecting our first child. It took 698 miles, over twelve months of blood draws, over twelve months on progesterone and estrogen, nine months of Clomid, two…
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