All Manner of Thing™

A Love Story

28 November 2011 All Manner of Thing™

“Which Mass do you go to?” It was an innocent enough question. “I don’t go to Mass” “Oh… You wanna come with us?” Two of my neighbours went together each week. They walked down and back when the weather was nice. “If we go to the 10:15, there’s donuts after.” “Sure. Let me check with [...]

Read the full article →

Normal?

28 November 2011 All Manner of Thing™

Our kids don’t go to ‘regular’ school. My husband and I work from home. We own a menagerie of pigs and goats, and geese, and chickens and turkeys… and sheep. We are the parents of eight children, and would happily welcome more. We rarely go to the mall. We seldom go to the movies. Our [...]

Read the full article →

Full of Grace

28 November 2011 All Manner of Thing™

For most of the past twenty years, I have been awakened in the dark of night by a small person who needs to be held close, comforted, nursed. And although there are still times I long for an uninterrupted sleep, I have come to discover something beautiful about those midnight wake-up calls, and ultimately, about [...]

Read the full article →

More Than a Feeling

28 November 2011 All Manner of Thing™

Love. It is the greatest of virtues. It is also, perhaps, the least understood. Modern culture defines love as a feeling, an emotion. But feelings, by their very nature, are temporary. What happens when the feeling goes away? What happens if that feeling never even manifests itself in us in relation to another person? We [...]

Read the full article →

All Manner of Thing

28 November 2011 All Manner of Thing™

We all have those moments. God knows we do. We burn dinner, forget birthdays, lose our tempers, wait until too late to call mother back. We say things we don’t mean, eat the wrong foods, lose our tempers, and nurse grudges. We lose our tempers. All manner of thing can go wrong in the life [...]

Read the full article →