Pray: Untie knots with Mary’s healing
Christine Valter Paintner offers a mediation to soften knots in our heart, body, and soul through vulnerability.
Christine Valter Paintner offers a mediation to soften knots in our heart, body, and soul through vulnerability.
Letting go is just another phrase that means forgiveness, especially for ourselves.
By our perseverance—in faith, not in fear—we will secure our lives.
In this season of the Feast of All Souls, write a brief prayer for your own soul, asking God how you might serve Him the rest of your living days.
I set aside the twisted, prideful notion that it was my job to safeguard myself and my daughters single-handedly. We needed God’s grace and protection.
This reading reminds not just fathers and sons, but also mothers, daughters and all those who parent or are parented that God the Father awaits our return from loneliness, anger, jealousy and desolation with His ever-ready blessing.
Write about how past suffering makes you more capable of motherly love.
In this month of Mary, one holy woman reminds us that Jesus is our Mother, too
I understood that God’s roadmap for me diverged from the paths of those I loved. I realized the best I could offer my lost ones was prayer.