The Golden Rule
Today's Reading Treat others the way you want to be treated. These words, a common refrain from parents and teachers of young children,...
Today's Reading Treat others the way you want to be treated. These words, a common refrain from parents and teachers of young children,...
Today's Readings This week, we encounter Luke’s shorter version of the Beatitudes. Here, we find ourselves “hashtag blessed,” though, not...
I caught your attention, didn’t I? ;) To start, I was quite the imaginative child growing up. I wrote very detailed short stories that...
If someone were to ask me who I most looked up to throughout Scripture, although very difficult to answer as I look up to a lot of them,...
A blog for women seems an unlikely place to find a reflection for St. Andrew. One of the fishermen called by Jesus to be fishers of men...
Today’s Readings One of my favorite parts of Advent is the time we spend hearing from the prophets, especially Jeremiah and Isaiah....
Today's Reflection “Don’t smile until Christmas!” This (terrible) piece of advice was given to me and countless other new teachers as we...
Last week I took a vacation from work. I spent it immersed in reviewing years of study and sequestered in a lovely room in my school’s...
Today's Readings Last week, I procrastinated on a project that, should I have spread out over the course of a month, would have been a...
Today's Readings Today’s first reading begins with a wish familiar to many of us: pray to receive cautious guidance, plead and receive...
I measure the seasons by my notebook of grocery lists. Cold salads, watermelon gazpacho, grilled vegetables and meats have been...
The older I get, the more I appreciate the rich heritage of female examples that I come from. My great-great grandmothers who emigrated...
Today's Readings Today is my 6th wedding anniversary. We’re still early in our marriage and God willing we have years to go. Two kids,...
Today’s Readings In today’s society, there is a new-found interest and emphasis on “self-care.” Ultimately, this idea of “self-care”...
Today’s Readings The doldrums of summer stretch out before us, lulling us into a sense of unimportant days blurring together in the...
Today’s Readings In those halcyon days pre-Covid, my office did the gifts inventory process to help us learn about one another and...
Today’s Readings One day a week, I get to see each of my students in person. One day in person (masked and distanced) and one day online....
Today's Readings Every week, I visit assisted living facilities to provide mental health therapy for the seniors there. The other day I...
Today’s Readings Whenever I read this passage in Luke for today’s Gospel, I am always surprised that the two disciples still didn’t...
Today’s Readings Whenever I read this passage in Luke for today’s Gospel, I am always surprised that the two disciples still didn’t...