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The Light after Sunsets
Posted on February 28, 2023 Leave a Comment
By Ana Borden Our youngest girl loves sunsets. Some evenings after dinner we venture out onto our westwardly facing front porch and enjoy a few minutes of silence, as she sits on my lap. As the sun fades away, the sky fills with an array of colors. Her reaction is priceless, and I love that she […]
The Tree of Life
Posted on January 29, 2023 Leave a Comment
By Ana Borden We have a massive cypress tree that shades us from the summer sun. By the time fall rolls around, with each breeze, the leaves fall through the end of the year. Our yard becomes topped with a golden-brown layer throughout most of the first half of winter.
Kids are Pro-Life
Posted on December 20, 2022 Leave a Comment
By Ana Borden For each of our children, we have an ongoing time capsule. It includes newspapers and magazines from the day they were born from my parents, mailings from their aunts, and an array of printed news capturing the day and week we first laid eyes on them. I also placed ultrasound photos, wrote […]
Working on our Weaknesses
Posted on November 13, 2022 Leave a Comment
By Ana Borden As early as first grade, I recall disliking English class for various reasons. I found drawing and painting, in lieu of writing, an easier outlet to communicate. Thankfully, my mother guided me to focus on writing and grammar and reminded me often of the importance of mastering this class and the art […]
Keeping up with our Faith . . . and with Household Chores
Posted on September 4, 2022 Leave a Comment
By Ana Borden Accomplishing daily house chores and taking pride in the process is an ongoing lesson I like to pass on to our children. It often becomes hectic juggling during this season of life – putting meals on the table, helping with homework and activities while maintaining full-time work schedules.
Baseball
Posted on July 31, 2022 Leave a Comment
By Ana Borden Baseball. It’s quite possibly my favorite summer pastime, especially when our oldest son finds so much joy playing the game. Last year, when I caught him smiling to himself and asked him why, his response was, “Baseball, Mommy, baseball.”
Saying Grace
Posted on June 26, 2022 Leave a Comment
By Ana Borden Recently, we vacationed with extended family and ate dinner a few times all together. As I placed our children’s plate in front of them that first night, I reminded them to say grace. Our oldest whispered in my ear, “I’m nervous praying. No one else is.” I whispered back, “We have so […]
Kissing the Cross
Posted on May 19, 2022 Leave a Comment
By Ana Borden I learned making the sign of the cross from my parents. My father and his family, in particular, grew up making the sign of the cross by creating a cross with their thumb and index, perpendicular to one another, followed by kissing the cross, the tip of their thumb. The later sign […]
The Rose Bush
Posted on April 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
By Ana Borden There are a few things I still recall about my grandmother before she passed away when I was a child. Among them was her love for rose bushes that grew in her yard. As a hobby, she cultivated beautiful heirloom roses in various hues of pinks and red. Following her passing, my mother propagated “offsprings” […]
The Gift of Water
Posted on March 8, 2022 Leave a Comment
By Ana Borden Water is a gift from God. It nourishes us not only physically but spiritually, as we experience, for example, in the sacrament of Baptism.
Actions Speak Louder than Words
Posted on January 25, 2022 Leave a Comment
By Ana Borden Every Sunday, we attend Mass as a family. My husband leads us into a pew and steps to the side as we each enter. As we leave the pew to receive Holy Communion as a family, once again he steps to the side and allows each of us to go before him. It […]
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