Suffering with Christ: How Slowing Down for an Injury Impacted My Relationship With the Lord

Most of my trip to Lourdes was spent asking the Lord to reveal where in my life I needed the most healing, and after sitting in the queue for over an hour, meditating on rosary after rosary, I was finally ushered inside to ask the Blessed Mother to heal my heart from a life of past abuse.

Letters, Spirituality, LeadBethany SpringelmeyerApril 1, 2020Lead, Suffering, surrender, prayer, Courage, Healing, God's plan, trusting in God's plan, Catholic Abba Father, vocation, Recent ContentComment

All Things New

We sat there, my mom, dad, and I as the man in the white coat leaned against the counter next to alcohol swabs and sterilized medical things. When he said, “Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer,” I looked to mom as I always did when I didn’t understand the medical jargon.

Letters, Spirituality, CreateCorynne StaresinicJune 12, 2019Catholic Fatherhood of God, Redemptive Suffering and Death, Catholic belonging, Catholic feeling out of place, Catholic loss coping, Catholic Abba Father Comments

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