Sweet Spotlights
September/October 2008 Issue | Posted by Tom and April Hoopes in Features
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I really enjoy your magazine. I have two favorites. First, I love the beautiful photo spread with the wonderful prayers or devotions to go with it. I really enjoyed all of the past mysteries of the Rosary. We had cut them out and laminated them. We still use them today. My second favorite is... READ MORE
To the Brink and Back
September/October 2008 Issue | Posted by Daria Sockey in Features
“I am so tired,” Greg Alexander said one evening to his wife, Julie.
“Me, too,” Julie replied. “Let’s get to bed early for a change.”
Greg sighed. “No, that’s not what I mean. I mean emotionally tired. Julie, I’m done. I want a divorce.”
Julie barely paused to digest this. Really,... READ MORE
From Darkness to Light
September/October 2008 Issue | Posted by Lisa Klewicki, Ph.D. in Features
By Lisa Klewicki, Ph.D.
Sue pulls the pillow over her head as the snooze alarm goes off again. She desperately wishes that she could stay in bed instead of facing another day. Her husband, Joe, gently shakes her shoulder.
“Get up, honey. It’s getting late.”
“I’m going, I’m going!” Sue snaps back.
Forcing... READ MORE
Calling All Saints
September/October 2008 Issue | Posted by Susie Lloyd in Features
By Susie Lloyd
Halloween as we commonly celebrate it is the offspring of two unlikely parents born centuries apart — the ancient druids and the modern market. The druids marked the day of the dead with bonfires, ghoulish tricks, and scary costumes. Centuries later, retailers cashed in. Yet, somewhere... READ MORE
Seeking Beauty in the Muck
September/October 2008 Issue | Posted by Elizabeth Foss in Features
By Elizabeth Foss
By Scott Russell Sanders
Illustrated by Robert Hynes
(National Geographic Children’s Books)
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When my three oldest boys were little, we lived in a townhouse with a postage-stamp-sized yard.
But this little house was set on the edge of Pohick Valley... READ MORE
‘LATE HAVE I LOVED YOU’
September/October 2008 Issue | Posted by Tom and April Hoopes in Features
Our Hearts are Restless
Man desires to praise you, for he is a part of your creation; he carries his mortality with him and carries the evidence of his sin and the pr oof that you resist the proud. Still, he desires to praise you, this man who is only a particle of your creation. You have prompted... READ MORE
God Is Stronger Than Cancer
September/October 2008 Issue | Posted by Margaret Berns in Features
By Margaret Berns
When Tina Robbins was diagnosed with co lon cancer in the spring of 2006, she didn’t feel afraid or angry. She felt ready to suffer well.
She did not know at that point how very hard it all would be.
The 41-year-old wife and mother of five from Bloomington, Minn., admits, “I thought,... READ MORE
Beauty and the Cross
September/October 2008 Issue | Posted by Father Ernest Daly, LC in Features
By Father Ernest Daly, LC
When Leah Darrow appeared as a contestant on the hit reality TV show “America’s Next Top Model,” she says, “My eyes were dramatically opened to the pitfall of today’s desire to be the next ‘beautiful thing.’”
Yet, when she was eliminated on the TV show, she wanted to capitalize... READ MORE
