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Breathe Through Me
My youngest son has occasional bouts with asthma. When it hits him, he feels like he is almost drowning, gasping for air. It is a terrible thing to think about, suffocating with no option for air. Luckily, an inhaler opens up that which was closed and air comes rushing back inside his lungs. The Latin…
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A Vote for Freedom
I cannot stay silent. This year in American politics has been anything but ordinary. You may certainly find aspects of any or all current candidates for President of the United States not to your liking or even down-right scandalous. You may be thinking you are in a quandary morally speaking because you cannot decide on…
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Don’t Throw Stones; Build Something Instead
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for Seventh Sunday of Easter 2016 I am currently dealing with my third and youngest child going through middle school. I am convinced that the middle school years are a time of real purgatory on earth. It is also a time that tests your faith in humanity, because you wonder at…
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All the Time in the World?
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for Ascension of the Lord 2016 Nowadays I travel a good bit, which means I am away from my wife and children for periods of time, some short but some long. But what makes it easier for me, besides being able to share the Good News of Jesus with people all…
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Multitasking and Stewardship of the Mind
I read something this morning that really got me thinking. I was especially intrigued because I have been so busy lately that I find it hard to tackle so many different tasks at once. Certainly, trying to hard to multitask seems to work against a primary characteristic of an everyday steward: mindfulness. How can I…
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Teaching Stewardship
Today is National Teacher Appreciation Day and I was thinking about my many teachers through the years. I went through 16 years of Catholic School and 2 years of graduate work, so that is a lot of teachers. They were mostly female, until I got into my college years when they became mostly male. Of…
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Love, Love, Love
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for the 6th Sunday of Easter 2016 I found this list online of 101 Ways to Show You Love Somebody. It was produced as a project in secondary schools somewhere in the United Kingdom, and was apparently inspired by a similar list and project in Iowa. The ideas have to do…
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Did You See Mr. Bean at Church This Past Sunday?
Today’s video is an extended version of a Mr. Bean skit I have been showing for quite some time at Building a Vibrant Parish Seminars I lead around the country. It really makes people laugh and breaks the ice. Every church probably has a Mr. Bean or two. Not everyone will be on the same…
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Creating Touchstones
Today’s video is one of three available from LPI to help a parish understand the value of Extending the Catholic Community by supporting those who advertise in your bulletin and/or parishioners and Catholics who own businesses in your community-at-large. Living out our faith is not always easy, but with the support from one another, we…
Tracy Earl Welliver 