Jess in the U.S – Hello Bethel
impulsive | ɪmˈpʌlsɪv | adjective 1. Acting or done without forethought. Synonyms: impetuous, spontaneous, hasty, passionate, emotional, uninhibited, unrepressed, abandoned According to the Oxford...
View ArticleLife of a Med Student – Expectation vs Reality
“Ugh life.” This has been a common phrase between friends and classmates lately, and to us it expresses a lot without really articulating much – it is the perfect response to so many situations and...
View ArticleThe Extraordinary Ordinary Things of Life
I am at my son Thomas’ wake. I have his memory box on my knee and I take out a few photos and pass them to a friend. “He was a chubby baby!” she exclaims. I reply, “He wasn’t really. Those photos...
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The Feast of Zelie and Louis Martin
Today marks the feast of Blessed Zélie and Blessed Louis Martin. Together, these holy people were the parents of Saint Therese of Lisieux, the “little flower”, one of their five daughters who all went...
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One year, One Child, God will show the way
“Take one year at a time, one child at a time, and God will show the way” has been the words that I’ve been using for almost the last 8 years I have been home schooling my children. When God hit me...
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The Journey to Restless Press
A year ago last week I was sitting in a cafe near North Sydney station in Sydney, writing a plan for how Restless Press would actually work. You see, a site like Restless Press had been a plan in my...
View ArticleLamp of the Body: A Testimony of Christ’s Healing
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.” (Matthew 6:22) An Unexpected Change About a month ago I received a letter from my local optometrist...
View Article5 Reasons to Read Quo Vadis
Who would ever want to read a long historical novel, set in the first century AD and written in the late nineteenth in Polish? After reading the following five reasons, I hope your question will...
View ArticleSt Teresa and The Interior Castle: The Journey Home
Birthday Today the year-long celebrations for the 500th birthday of St Teresa of Avila draw to a close. It has been a wonderful 12 months commemorating this milestone. Yet what is really important...
View ArticleOn Prayers From and For The Deceased
“At what point can I stop praying for the souls of my deceased relatives? One of my grandfathers died in the ’50’s, another in the ’70’s, my uncle died as a boy in the early ’60’s… How do I know when...
View ArticleLife of a Med Student – 10 Lessons Learned
Wow, it is November already, and I have officially finished my 4th year of Med School. I have also missed a fair number of months of articles (my bad…). What a year it has been! So to get y’all up to...
View ArticleAustralian Catholic Youth Festival 2015
Lindsay attended the Australian Catholic Youth Festival over the 3-5 December 2015 in Adelaide. The festival was a wonderful time for the 3500+ young people who came along from all over Australia....
View ArticleConfession of a Girl Who Came Home
This is my confession. I was tricked into accepting God back into my life. Yes, you read that right, I was tricked. Duped. Hoodwinked. Bamboozled – or perhaps more accurately, I was enticed by...
View ArticleConfessions of a Girl Who Sucks at Praying
This is my confession: I’m really bad at praying. Before you get all judgy on me, it’s not as bad as it sounds. I love praying, having a conversation with God is often the highlight of my day, but once...
View ArticleConfessions of a Girl with Mental Illness
This is my confession: I have a mental illness When I was 17, I was diagnosed with Chronic Depression (yeah, we’re diving straight in) but I believe that if I’d had the guts to see my doctor earlier,...
View Article5 Reasons You Should Read The Good Doctor
Expelled from two schools, Lance O’Sullivan became a troublemaker and was on a fast path to failure. In desperation, his solo mother sent him to Hato Petera College, where he connected with his Maori...
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