Frustration, and dealing with it

frustration Definition frus·tra·tion NOUN 1. dissatisfaction: a feeling of disappointment, exasperation, or weariness caused by goals being thwarted or desires unsatisfied 2. frustrating of somebody or something: an act or instance of causing somebody or something to be dissatisfied or unfulfilled 3. something that thwarts: something that blocks, thwarts, and upsets somebody all at the …

Jesus as a tag line…

Each day we all need to make personal choices regarding how we choose to live out our faith. We choose how we are going to react to our kids in the morning or how we are going to respond to the driver who just cut us off on our way to work. We are bombarded …

This Easter

Spring is on its way here in lower Michigan. The snow is all gone (I hope, you never know in Michigan) and the temperatures have been pleasant. All good signs that spring is coming. I love spring, I can open up my windows in the house, I hate that closed in feeling I have a …

Lent and her three children

How do we know that we are living a life that Christ wants us to live? This has to be a burning for most if not all Christians. If our life goal is to please God to be Christ like, than what is our gauge, how do we know we are achieving what we set …

The No Plan Plan…

Sometimes no plan is the best plan. This past weekend my sister Carol came over to help me clean out the garage, now before you all start thinking what a great sister to help clean out a garage, it was partly her mess too. She was one of the other owners of the now closed …

I fell

Yesterday I tried to express an idea, a concept on faith. I did a very poor job, I knew that as soon as I posted it, but I want to post a blog everyday if I can, be it good or be it bad. And yesterdays was bad! I like the idea of where I …

Life

Life lessens learned…   This statement should follow everything we do, we are always in a passion to learn from what we have done, be it a successes or a failure.   Our minds have the ability to grow, to never stop learning, but all too often we do not take advantage of that. We …

Walk and Talk

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. St. Francis of Assisi How true is that, you can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk? That in a nut shell is what the message of Jesus was all about. Knowing our faith is important, but to live …

God has plans

We all can use a little good news every now and then, I know my sister, and a good friend and I sure could. We are in the process of closing down our retail store. We opened up a Catholic Gift shop in a little town called Plymouth.   The shop was cute and offered …