Searching for a Balance

 I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't live where there are snowfalls.

 I think it’s so cute when cats turn in their paws like this.

  I've picked up Elizabeth Goudge's Towers in the Mist, and found that St. Edmund Campion is a character in it - I hadn't looked...

 "Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died and risen again; for...

 Well, it did snow yesterday to freshen things up a bit and the cold continues, with today being the coldest - but it didn't end up as c...

 I'm working on adapting a new bedskirt to my day bed; I always have to cut off one long edge and attach some of it to a short edge.  I ...

 I only worked half a shift today - we've got snow. Not a lot, but mixed with wetter precipitation and temps in the twenties, everyone w...

 "The best way to shorten winter is to prolong Christmas." - G.K. Chesterton

Eternal light, shine in my heart; Eternal hope, lift up my eyes; Eternal power, be my support; Eternal wisdom, make me wise. Eternal life, r...

 We had a snowy day at last. I'll call it a Christmas snow since we are still in the "greater" Christmas/Epiphany season. But ...

 There is a very nice shop in town, and I like to at least go there before Christmas, when they have a good sale.  This year I noticed that ...

I had forgotten how cold everything seems after a snowfall.    This is not a complaint!    A WINTRY SONNET A Robin said: The Spring will nev...

" Epiphany is a season especially set apart for adoring the glory of Christ. At Christmas we commemorate his grace, in Lent his temptat...

 I like the way the nativity is set up in church this year; it's a bit cramped-looking, actually, but somehow more dynamic. The three ki...

 I often intend to post something here, get sidetracked, and then find I'm too tired. I need a better plan.  I discovered a most delicio...

 "As our houses are deluged in a cascade of cosy Christmas images, glittery frosted cards and happy, holy families who seem to be remar...

 A very Merry Christmas to everyone who reads this blog.  a welcome gift For the Old Year's sands are well-nigh run; This is the Birthda...

We sang People Look East at Mass this morning: "Make your house fair as you are able; trim the hearth and set the table." a beauti...

  The week flew by and I don't know where to.

It's the last of the O antiphons tonight, O Emmanuel. Together, they have a message.  O E mmanuel O R ex           O O riens       O C l...

 The little tree on my desk at work.  

  I had Mary and Joseph on a small shelf above the sink. Then one day I heard a *clunk*; the Blessed Mother had taken a fall. Now they are r...

I am working on mending a favorite shirt of my brother's; he likes button-down collars and the button pulled away from where it was sewn...

 Bill and Dianne's front yard is populated with all manner of lights, shapes and creatures; it's so cheerful. I got some pictures - ...

 Advent began a week ago, and with it I started on the Christmas cards. I figured out that if I do five cards each night, I'll have plen...

 I'm lifting this straight from Magnificat, but it's so interesting. "My mother used to say that the days of Advent were the da...

"Upon that way [the way of Advent], we go to meet the Lord as he comes to meet us. The ways lies through our own heart. Let us clear it...

 It's time for baking, and I'm really trying to be faithful to it. There was a butter cookie recipe in my magazine the other day, an...

 “What matters in the deeper experience of contemplation is not the doing and accomplishing. What matters is relationship, the being with. W...

It's already the feast of St. Nicholas. There's a quilting group which meets at the library, and some of their winter-themed work is...

  The watchmen cry throughout the night, Reminding God to save,  Nor shall they rest till early light Announces dawning day. As sentinels aw...