Posts Tagged ‘pilgrimage’
In Which We Learn that My Book Has a Title!
I’m delighted to announce the title of my forthcoming book with Ave Maria Press! Awakening at Lourdes: How an Unanswered Prayer Healed Our Family and Restored Our Faith will be released this fall. It’s the story of our family’s pilgrimage to Lourdes with the Order of Malta in 2017, the miracles we received and the ones we didn’t, and why the wide gulf between those two things is awash in grace upon grace.
READ MORE 🠖It is finished
I’m sitting in Panera and 14 seconds after I typed the last word of this book about my pilgrimage to Lourdes, I hear singing in Latin. It sounds like the rosary being sung in Lourdes. I mean, it sounds EXACTLY like the rosary being sung in Lourdes.
READ MORE 🠖Miriam’s First Communion
More than a year ago, a ridiculous dream formed itself in my heart. On May 5, 2018, it actually happened.
READ MORE 🠖Living our brokenness under the blessing lifts us all
Brokenness lived under the blessing is transformed into a gift, not a burden. Every year in Lourdes, I get to relearn this.
READ MORE 🠖#7QT: Seven Quick Takes, Lourdes 2018 Edition
In which we fly across the world to serve the sick and end up joining their ranks instead. In Lourdes, there are no accidents.
READ MORE 🠖Oscar’s Undiagnosed Story
The saga of our as-yet fruitless search for answers, in honor of Undiagnosed Diseases Day.
READ MORE 🠖It is well with my soul
God has drawn beautiful goodness forth out of the rubble and ashes. He makes ALL things new, even the raggedy souls of beaten-down special needs mamas.
READ MORE 🠖That time we went to Lourdes and our son was healed
In which we address the elephant in the room and the million dollar question: What happened AFTER the baths?
READ MORE 🠖What really happened in the baths at Lourdes
Awkwardness! Confusion! Doubt! Our time in the baths was the beginning of the story, not the end.
READ MORE 🠖The sick and the suffering are a powerful icon of Christ
Everywhere we went in Lourdes, the gaze of the beloved was turned upon us. The effect of this gaze, on both the bestower and the object, was transformative.
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