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Just Show Up – Retreat – try it!Leading a retreat is a gift like none other one can experience. You get to witness so many souls on all different levels of their journey come into the beginning of the retreat with a mixture of apprehension, excitement, possibly some anxiety and spiritual thirst. To watch these souls abandon the... [Read more...]
Just Show Up – Attention Young Ladies!- Revolt!I don’t know if it is because I just finished reading the Hunger Games series (and watching the movie) or if it is because of the disgusting stories I keep hearing about new ways in which young women are subjecting themselves to sexual exploitation but I am fired up! To all of you young ladies... [Read more...]
Just Show Up – Train Your Eyes on HimGod is faithful. “Help my unbelief!” I cried out…lost in the thickness and wretchedness of self-sorrow. Even as I felt it I knew how wrong and vile this behavior was, yet I was uncertain why I was even feeling this way. It was not who I am or who I wanted to be. A few days ago I... [Read more...]
Just Show Up – Fairness / EnduranceOh do these virtues speak to me today…no, I mean they are YELLING at me right now. Last night I had a ‘moment’ with God in the car, you know, the kind of moment where I felt fed up and wanted God to know. It wasn’t pretty. If God were sitting with me in the car... [Read more...]
Just Show Up – Getting to the ROOT of the matter…Endless dirt roads. Vast views of tree-lined hills. A symphony of birds chirping and cacophony of insects buzzing. The occasional pungent aroma of manure floats by in the wind. My eyes tear up. Not because of the cow poo but because in an odd way it reminds me so much of my childhood. My cousin,... [Read more...]
Just Show Up – A Repentful Heart (My time at the prison.)A smooth shaved head, dark tear drop forever etched by her left eye, and Roxanne scrawled in ink across her neck, this young woman stood before me, arms over crutches to support her newly amputated leg and smiled. “I can’t believe I’m getting to meet you,” she said. “I... [Read more...]
Just Show Up – InvincibleHow does she do it? I could never live through what you have. How can he smile after what he’s been through? How do you move on? I have asked these questions and I’ve been asked these questions. What I’ve come to know is you will never realize your resilience until you... [Read more...]
Just Show Up – Determination / DevotionI had a free moment today so I wanted to make sure I got in two virtues for the week. To me there is never a coincidence so it was not surprising when I looked up the next two in line and found ‘determination’ and ‘devotion’. The go very well with my week. Determination... [Read more...]
Just Show Up – VIDEO BLOG “Searching”That’s right…after a hiatus I am back answering YOUR questions for my advice ‘video’ column “Just Show Up – Video Blog”. Today’s dilemma is about a young Protestant woman who is interested in knowing more about the Catholic faith but is struggling with... [Read more...]
Just Show Up – Take a Stand“Do not be afraid….For the Lord your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you.” Deuteronomy 31:6 All you have to do is ‘show up’. I’ve learned, however, that sometimes in ‘showing up’ for God He is also calling... [Read more...]
