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Happy Easter! I love that it’s the end of May and still the Easter Season. We Catholics know how to party, celebrating the Resurrection for 50 days while only fasting in preparation for 40 days! While I deeply love the Easter season, I have found that, surprisingly enough, I struggle with truly receiving and living […]

The snow is all around us in these deep days of winter, a kind of unmoving, silent presence, frozen in time. Even though life continues on full speed ahead in the busyness of these days, there’s also a sort of feeling that we’re ‘stuck’ in these winter days, waiting for spring to arrive when the […]

God’s plan constantly surprises me. After this many years you would think I should know by now that everything He has asked me to do has had a purpose in His bigger plan, but it still tends to blow my mind! It is truly amazing how God works. A couple of months ago, my friend […]

Surrender (v.)- to give oneself up into the power of another; yield. I have been reflecting on this word a ton since feeling God’s nudge to adopt it as my “word of the year” for 2019 during my silent retreat at Pacem in Terris this past weekend. I never would have imagined how much my […]

These past two weeks, I have had the incredible opportunity of staying with one of my closest friends in New Mexico. The beautiful ranch she her and husband live on has everything you could want: mountains on every side, beautiful sunsets, and the heat that Minnesota unfortunately won’t see for a while. The only thing […]

It’s that time of year again: Back to school is in full swing, leaving me nostalgic for the smell of newly-sharpened pencils, the feel of new sneakers, first day of school pictures, and all of the excitement and anxiousness that come with the brand-new school year. Now that I’m no longer a student, the start […]

At 8:42AM on August 3rd, 2018 sweet Maria Guadalupe officially made me an aunt for the first time!! The first time I got to hold Maria I was moved to tears at how beautiful the gift of life really is. The fact that my baby sister carried her for 9 months and suddenly here she […]

Have you ever read a story in the Bible that was so relatable it could have been written about you? A story where, if you substituted your name in, everything would still make sense? When I returned home from our mission trip in Peru, I realized that my encounter deeply paralleled an encounter that Jesus’ […]

I didn’t want to go on a mission trip. I have never been a real big traveler. I have always been perfectly happy at home with the people I love, just enjoying the everyday parts of life. I knew friends in college who studied abroad and “just had to travel,” and I didn’t understand them. […]

Two weekends ago was the beautiful celebration of Ordination of Priests (ten of them!) for the Diocese of Wichita. It was such an exciting and beautiful day for so many, especially with my close friend’s brother being ordained, but it was also very bittersweet. It was the day that my friend Ben would have been […]