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2012
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A Journey to Save a Life: Part Two/ First Steps When my wife and I first mentioned that we should adopt a girl from El Salvador, we didn’t know the slightest thing about how to do a foreign adoption. Who do you contact? What steps would you need to take? How do you overcome the language barrier…n...
02/28/2012
A Journey to Save a Life: Part One The Beginning In my two previous blog posts, I spoke of our Lenten Journey and how I feel that each one of us has a purpose to our existence. Perhaps you have come to feel the same as I do. I know from a personal standpoint, I spent the better part of my life de...
02/27/2012
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Our Lenten Journey: Part Two I would like to continue on with my thought process from the other day when I spoke of Lent as a journey to rediscover our faith; a process to enhance our faith, to have it shape us, and to provide a roadmap for our spiritual journey. I made the observation that while...
02/26/2012
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Our Lenten Journey Lent is often described as a spiritual journey we take each year, beginning with Ash Wednesday and concluding forty days later with Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. It is a time when we are called to take stock of our faith and make the necessary adjustments in ou...
02/23/2012
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Happy Valentines’ Day In preparation for writing this blog about Valentine’s Day, I tried to do a little research on the history of the day. It seems it started out as a celebration of one or more Christian martyrs back in 496 AD. Its current association with romantic love didn’t come about unti...
02/14/2012
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Don’t Leave Anything on the Table! From time to time, I skim back over my blog to sort of get a feel of the direction I am heading with this thing. I don’t really have a goal in mind when I write. Many times, something just pops in my head during Mass on Sunday, and I begin to formulate how I wan...
02/07/2012
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You Are Right Where You Are Supposed To Be Do you ever feel like you are a pinball in a pinball machine version of your life? You are constantly being tossed in all sorts of directions…bouncing off objects…careening off obstacles placed in your path…and in the end, watching as you pass between th...
02/03/2012
