Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces, calling out the best of who we are. It comes in small inspirations. It comes in loving community. It comes in helping a soul find its worth. I want to add to the beauty, to tell a better story. I want to shine with the light that's burning up inside. This is grace, an invitation to be beautiful.
You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived - somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time.
What we must do is to stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life, the real life that God sends us day by day. What we call our real life is but a phantom of our imagination.

Archive for March, 2010

Abortion is NOT Health Care

Posted on 3/20/2010 at 6:33:52 AM

LifeCounts

That’s why I’m going into work today. All hands on deck at AUL for the weekend because real health care respects life. Support Stupak and encourage your lawmakers to vote NO tomorrow against health care reform! And check out AUL’s awesome Life Counts ad campaign!

sassy

Posted on 3/13/2010 at 5:41:46 PM

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I might want a pair of red high heels. Like these: (Disclaimer: the song/music video is a little scandalous but catchy)

some days are just like that

Posted on 3/12/2010 at 9:52:13 PM

alexander

Remember Alexander and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day? Well, I kind of had one of those yesterday. One thing after another happened to make the day downright awful and just when I thought it was starting to improve – around 6pm when my wonderful roommate met me with a skinny cinnamon dolce [...]

every woman should know

Posted on 3/8/2010 at 8:04:49 PM

ivf

Why is that making the headlines and not this? What women really need is more of this. Over 30 years ago, Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby” was born. Ever since then, the world has been watching to see how babies like Louise would turn out down the road. Just last month, researchers [...]

You make everything glorious

Posted on 3/8/2010 at 5:45:48 PM

I’ve had this song stuck in my head for over 36 hours! The days have just been so glorious lately and sometimes it’s easy for me to forget why they’re so glorious: because He made them that way! And somehow just remembering that truth makes everything even more glorious. “Everything Glorious” by David Crowder The [...]

dolphins are people too

Posted on 3/7/2010 at 6:35:24 PM

dolphin

This is the inaugural post of my wonderful roommate, friend, and fellow bioethics nerd: Julia G. Kiewit. Prepare to be challenged and stimulated. Welcome to “Mary Richards and Me,” Jules! In this article, Emory University neuroscientist and leading expert on dolphins and whales, Lori Marino, talks about his participation in the American Association for the [...]

Spring is here. I can taste it.

Posted on 3/7/2010 at 2:52:42 PM

Today is March 7 and it’s already starting to feel like spring. I say “already” because, in the Midwest, you cannot expect the days to feel like spring until at least April, if then. In Washington, DC, from what I hear, spring arrives in March and, best of all, the cherry blossoms arrive in March [...]

Hill’s Kitchen

Posted on 3/2/2010 at 7:33:37 AM

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One thing that I love about living in Eastern Market is the abundance of cute streets and shops. It seems like every time I turn a corner, I see something that catches my eye and begs me to investigate it. That’s how I’ve been feeling about Hill’s Kitchen for the past 4 weeks. Ever since [...]