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Our Culture’s Rejection of Beauty
The other day I was perusing Instagram and a video of a man came up that stopped me in my tracks. So drastic were the alterations he’d done to himself, that I couldn’t see him anymore. My eyes could physically look at him, but I couldn’t see him and, by that I mean, he had…
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A Few Places I Refuse to Shop at Anymore
Recently, I wrote about stores or businesses that I refuse to shop from and many of my followers asked for a list of the places I avoid. Before we begin, though, let’s establish a few things. 1. I know that boycotting all stores is not possible. 2. I know that trying to buy from perfectly…
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Can You Define What a Table Is? Well, Can Ya?
The other day, I saw a meme created by Young America’s Foundation that quoted Ben Shapiro. It said, “Men cannot become women. Women cannot become men. Men who believe they are women are not real women.” I commented, “Still baffling that this has to be underscored.” Cue the dissenter. A man showed up that was…
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Halloween: To Celebrate or Not? That Is the Question.
When I was a kid, October was one of my favorite times of year. My dad incorporated all kinds of fun traditions for me and my siblings. He would hand-draw a Halloween calendar for me to mark off each day. Together, we scoured the Sunday newspaper TV guide looking for Halloween shows to watch like…
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GUEST POST: Public Policy and Catholic Principles in a Post-Roe World
This is a guest post from a friend of mine who is a lawyer and a devout Catholic. He wrote this awhile back with the hopes of helping Catholics explain why abortion should be prohibited. He mentioned to me that the key to ultimately winning the culture over with regards to abortion is to first…
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When They Seek To Divide Us
Yesterday, I went to the post office to mail a few packages. My local post office is tiny and always blazing hot, so if there is a line most people wait outside. When I walked up, an older man was standing there waiting his turn. After waiting for awhile, he turned to me and said,…
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It’s Okay to Examine Our Country
For anything to be truly healthy, it must be “checked” over from time-to-time. As we learn from science, “things tend towards disorder” and, therefore, need constant maintenance and evaluation. For our souls to be healthy, we need to examine our consciences in order to confess our sins and be forgiven of them. For our bodies…
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Are We More Than Just Clumps of Cells?
Years ago, an atheist friend of mine was arguing with me over the existence of God. Our discussion covered many branches of the topic. At one point, she stated that human beings are nothing more than a collection of cells and chemical reactions. “We love only because of dopamine hormones.” “We do things only to…
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Take Things Back Little by Little
Within the past 10 years, I’ve heard a lot of people comment, “How did we get to this point?” We all look around and things look…well…bleak. Nothing seems healthy or thriving–not people, not families, not institutions, not countries. To be fair, we all can have a bit of a romantic view of the past seeing…
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The Push to Embrace Fantasy
If you live in a first-world country, chances are that your life is significantly more comfortable, more pleasurable, and easier than a majority of people in the world. In general, your external woes are nothing compared to someone living in a third-world country. That isn’t to say that people in first-world countries don’t have burdens,…
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Who Needs God? I Mean, Look at What We Can Do.
In the not too distant past, a growing trend started. It was the seed of a belief that we as humans were outgrowing God. In the Age of Enlightenment, there were advances in science, math, the arts, literature, and industry, so much so, that humans began to smugly pat themselves on the back. “Look at…
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Q & A: How Do I Navigate a Relationship With Someone That Is Different Than Me?
I wrote last week about how I learned to love and forgive a family member that was completely different than me. Here’s that blog if you’d like to read it. From that blog, a question was posed to me. I’d like to take this blog to answer it. Question: How do you navigate a relationship with someone…
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Sharing the Truth of Chastity with Your Teen
When I was maybe 12-years old, my grandmother gave me the birds and bees talk in the car while driving me back to my parent’s house. There I was trapped with no where to run and all I really remember about the “talk” was my desire to melt away into the seat. Hearing my grandmother…
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Capturing My Life
I often wonder, “What did we do before all these electronics came into our lives?” Â And then I remind myself, that I did live in the pre-historic time period before the IPad, cellphone, and laptop. Â What did we do? Â Well, we spent a heck of lot more time outside, I do know that. Â I realize…
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Getting Back to Simple
The other day I was at the Christian book store looking for a gift.  I walked past the clearance books and I saw one titled, “Hands Free Mama.”  I was drawn to it, so I picked it up, didn’t even read the back, and decided I wanted to read it.  I had an idea of what…
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Saved Through Tough Love
I was a hard-core criminal when I was six-years old. Â Hard to believe, I know, but it’s true. Â I was on my way to a life of thievery. “Oh, come on, Amy. Â What did you steal? Â A lollipop at the grocery store?” No, ladies purses were more my thing. Â Initially, I got caught a couple…
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Is Chastity Too Extreme?
I’ve really struggled with this blog.  Not because I feel wishy-washy about the topic, but because, to me, it’s so important that I’m not sure I can give it due justice.  I’ve recently heard a lot talk regarding this issue and it’s left me…well, disheartened.  Fear crept in over the negative attention I know it will…
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My New Career Choice: Lighthouse
So, I know what I wanna be when I grow up. Â I wanna be a lighthouse. Â It’s taken me a long time to come to this conclusion. Â First, I wanted to be a veterinarian, but me and needles don’t really see eye-to-eye. Â Then, I wanted to be an FBI agent, but marrying a military man…
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A Military Spouse’s Introduction to Southern Living
I could never have anticipated the things that I would learn as a military spouse. Nothing can prepare you for all the twists, turns, obstacles, joys, and surprises that the military life supplies. I grew up a Midwestern girl. Born and bred in Kansas, I had never really experienced a whole lot outside of Tornado…
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9/11 We Will Never Forget
In 2005, I stood at Ground Zero. There I was, just staring into a gigantic hole of rubble. It didn’t seem real. I looked up at the steel beam cross positioned in the middle of the destruction and I was brought to tears. People had jumped to their death where I was standing. People had made frantic…