Author: Connie Perez

So much has happened in the last 14 months. Soooo much. While in Texas this week, I spotted a billboard of a popular 24/7 burger joint that read Hours of operationALL OF THEM Immediately I thought of how God is at work all the time. Some times for us, some times through us. So much…

When we least expect it, we may be presented with a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something. Do we act on it, or do we pass? That’s not always a clear-cut choice. But I think when opportunity comes knocking, we should at least open the door. And, if it’s dressed like…

No one is ever quite ready. I thought I was because we certainly planned for it. But I wasn’t. I thought I was choosing motherhood but, in reality, it was choosing me. And here I am, on the eve of another Mother’s Day, twenty-nine years since that first life-changing eye-opener. Since that day when this…

If I had a dollar for every time I have faced uncertainty, I’d be rich and sitting in retirement on a beach in Fiji. Yes, that many times. Uncertainty surrounds us whether we are tuned in to it or not. No matter how in control of our lives we think we are, much of what…

If you could have a conversation with yourself from 20 years ago, what would you tell yourself? Me? That there’s only so many times one can get away with putting 38 on a birthday cake. [Wink, wink…inside joke to family and friends]. Seriously, though, I would tell myself not to sweat the small stuff. As…

I’m pretty sure in nine plus years of consecutive Thankful Thursdays posts, I must have expressed gratitude for this, but here it is again – – I am so very grateful for working plumbing. My first realization of the value of working plumbing, no, actually, of plumbing, period, was during day 2 of my first…

Affirmations can be powerful, and none is more powerful to me than one which emboldens my faith. Believing I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (and what He can do through me), during the good, the bad and the ugly, does just that. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens…

Never say never. Online reservation of a seat for Mass? Never. Sit in Mass wearing a face cover? Never. Well, been there, done both. It’s been another interesting Lent season. This Holy Thursday, I am thankful for what we commemorate and remember today – the institution of the Eucharist and the importance Jesus puts on…

I don’t know about you, but I shake my head every time I hear someone say that God laughs when we make plans so why bother. I say, why not make them anyway? Just because He laughs doesn’t mean they won’t happen. Yes, He has a sense of humor but, above all, He’s merciful and…

Well, we’re back on Daylight Saving Time and Spring’s around the corner. Yup, change is in the air, again. And speaking of change, I smell an empty nest fast approaching. Could it be that both our kids will be flying the coup in the same season? Possibly. Good thing these parentals have plans in the…