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Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is Editorial Director of Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her work, the two …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com and the author of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also enjoys speaking around the country, is employed as webmaster for her parish web sites and spends time on various …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their 4-year-old daughter, 2-year-old son, and twin boys born May 2011. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is a 30-something, single lady, living in Connecticut in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law and six kids ... and two doors down are her parents. She received her undergraduate degree from …
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Daria Sockey is a freelance writer and veteran of the large family/homeschooling scene. She recently returned home from a three-year experiment in full time outside employment. (Hallelujah!) Daria authored several of the original Faith&Life Catechetical Series student texts (Ignatius Press), and is currently a Senior Writer for Faith&Family magazine. A latecomer …
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Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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Sweetness of Disposition

Today's Small Steps Toward Kindness

Think: “Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word. The two men were not likely to be friends. Perhaps each of them regarded the other’s antecedents with somewhat of distrust. They had possibly been set against each other by the circulation of gossip. Or they had been looked upon as rivals, and the success of one was regarded as incompatible with the success of the other. But a kind word, perhaps a mere report of a kind word, has been enough to set all things straight, and to be the commencement of an enduring friendship.”
Fr. Frederick William Faber

Pray: Sweet Jesus, today make me very aware of every opportunity to utter kind words. Give me the courage and the sweetness of disposition to say them and to mean them.

Act: Where are your opportunities to speak words of kindness? Begin in your own home, first thing in the morning, and then seize every opportunity in all the social spheres where you find yourself today. Look particularly to someone you don’t consider a friend, someone who might even be an adversary. Speak words of genuine kindness and compassion.


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Thank you for this wonderful challenge. I am in the process of trying to make new friends in a new place, and this is a great reminder that we never know where those friends are going to come from. I will carry this thought with me this week as I go to all the regular places (ballet school, karate school, softball and soccer fields, music lessons), and I’ll see who I might be kind to in order to make a new friend. A great challenge to me, as I am usually sort of shy.
Looking forward to tomorrow’s challenge!

 

I’m going to keep this in mind when dealing with the pharmacy about my daughter’s eczema medicine this evening, its been a rough day, and hopefully I can keep my disposition sweet.  Its been a frustrating experience these past two days and my baby girl is itchy and irritable.  My little code down below is piece…I’m hoping for Peace instead…
Hugs,
jamie

 

I came here via Ann at Holy Experience…thank you God for Ann.  Just what I needed after a week of grieving the loss of some long-term friendships that have shifted due to our changing churches.  This is such a simple reminder for me amongst the sea of many new faces in my life.  God is so near to each of us!

 

I was also drawn here by Ann’s post at Holy Experience.  However, thoughts of the blessings of friendship in my life and writing a post about it also drew me to this sweet reminder of how friendships are built.  Thank you.

 

Courteous posting, real revealing. Thank you, nice absorbing to said, you should be impressive of your blog. I was in truth tasting to control your subject matters from meter to time. We are looking advanced to your potential positions.

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