Wait…didn’t you just walk through a sea You would think that, after witnessing the ten plagues, crossing the Red Sea, and being miraculously delivered from 400 years of slavery, the Israelites would have left the “ye of little faith” camp and taken up permanent residence in the “ye of big unshakeable faith” camp. But no. […]
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Holy Spirit…You Okay? Not gonna lie to you, when the idea for this series, Into the Wilderness: A Lenten Pilgrimage with the Desert Fathers, came, I was skeptical. First, because the Desert Fathers aren’t exactly the people I’d turn to for advice on dealing with most modern issues. They weren’t balancing grocery lists, work emails, […]
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Holy Spirit…You Okay? Not gonna lie to you, when the idea for this series, Into the Wilderness: A Lenten Pilgrimage with the Desert Fathers, came, I was skeptical. First, because the Desert Fathers aren’t exactly the people I’d turn to for advice on dealing with most modern issues. They weren’t balancing grocery lists, work emails, […]
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We're the moms behind Marian Mindset! Both of us became mothers before we felt ready for the gift of motherhood—Olivia at 17 with an unexpected pregnancy, and Hannah with surprise twins after being told she couldn’t have children. For years we struggled—yelling, threatening, and feeling like we were being punished.
But we also had the sense that motherhood wasn't meant to be like this; that God didn’t design motherhood to be a cross. Through His providence, we discovered mindset work, a practice rooted deep in Sacred Scripture and Tradition dating back to the early Church. And that work changed everything...
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