by Michelle C. Martin | Oct 11, 2023 | Church, Family Life, Marriage, Marriage Prep, Parenting, Prayer, Society, Spirituality
Openness to life offers the freedom of surrender and control working together. With Natural Family Planning must come the understanding of openness to life. Earlier this week, we talked about practicing NFP. It can be found here: ...
by Michelle C. Martin | Oct 2, 2023 | Church, Family Life, Liturgy, Marriage, Prayer, Spirituality, Teachings
“Do not believe you can love without suffering, without suffering a great deal.” Suffering was not hidden from our dear St. Therese. October 1st is the feast of St. Therese of Lisieux. She lived as a cloistered Carmelite nun from the age of 15 until her death nine...
by Michelle C. Martin | Jul 25, 2023 | Family Life, Marriage, Marriage Prep, Parenting, Society
Commitment is a Weird Place, but it is OKAY: The commitment of engagement found me in a weird place. Once Joshua and I went from dating to engaged, I developed a strange feeling of disappointment. Not disappointment in my decision, and certainly not disappointment in...
by Michelle C. Martin | May 19, 2023 | Church, Marriage, Parenting, Prayer
“Do you want to be healed?” If you’ve seen the show “The Chosen,” you may remember a scene from the second season where Jesus heals a paralyzed man at the Pool of Bathsheba. In Jesus’ day, a legend surrounded the place: the first person to touch the fountain when it...
by Tara Brooke | Jan 4, 2021 | Family Life, Prayer, Society, Spirituality
2020 is officially over and guess what? WE MADE IT! I did not wait up until midnight to ring in the New Year, but I fell asleep on December 31, 2020 with a sense of accomplishment and I also fell asleep a different person than I had one year prior. I remember...
