Recently a close family friend of ours, Brother Andy, went to Thailand to walk in the steps of his brother, Father Larry, who died of a brain tumor early this year. Father Larry was Director of the Father Ray Foundation in Pattaya for a number of years before becoming ill. The Father Ray Foundation takes care of 850 orphaned, abused and disadvantaged children and students with disabilities…
Read an excerpt from a beautiful story I just found online at CatholicMom.com (where I am also a contributing writer). 🙂 After the excerpt, just click on the link to finish reading. And then let me know what you think in the comments… “What the hell are you doing?” I yelled out the back door. “Go back to bed!” he shouted back. “I’m just protecting my house and my family.”
I hope you’ll go see the movie, Courageous, at the theaters this weekend. Why this weekend? Did you know that the more people who see a movie the first weekend it’s out, the more widely distributed and more successful it will be? And we all know that we need more movies to teach us, and […]
Here’s what we need to teach our children about real love, via my friend Amy from Abby Johnson’s Facebook page…
The kids and I just got back from visiting the West Michigan Healing Field, a local memorial for those who died on September 11th, 2001. Each of the 3200 flags represent a life lost that day, including 21 who were Michigan residents. If you live nearby, you really need to go. Don’t miss the moving video I’ve included at the end of the post from the Healing Field…
Jen’s recent post, How to keep the internet from driving you crazy, had some great tips that I knew would help you as much as it has helped me, as someone who is on this machine way too much. Also, I wanted to share a prayer with you that my good friend, Nancy, gave me when I was struggling with my latest computer technical nightmare.
When I looked at this, my mind was flooded with thankfulness at how good God is, that He would create such beauty for us to enjoy while here on earth…
Thank you to my friend, Amy, for sharing this beautiful video with me so that I could share it with all of you.
This recent blog post from Focus on the Family, This is what integrity looks like, was a heartwarming read, just knowing that there are many people of integrity still out there!
A good friend sent me this story via email and I had to check it out to see for myself. Sure enough, check Google images and Wikipedia, it’s all there… Here’s a 6 minute video to explain it. This guy’s speaking style isn’t normally my favorite, but the content is worth listening to anyway.