Tagged: kindness

The Glass of Milk

The Glass of Milk

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the...

Book Review: Down Right Good by Karen Kelly Boyce

Book Review: Down Right Good by Karen Kelly Boyce

The award-winning “Down Right Good” tells the poignant adventures of ten-year-old Angie who was born with Down syndrome. She develops a limited vocabulary but has the ability to see angels. She bikes around her town, delivering the weekly community tabloid, seeing the pain in the people who live at each stop. Their stories of abuse...

Holiday Fruits

Holiday Fruits

Whether the holidays bring us closer to our family or we still keep our distance, they are always our family. Some family members are more loveable than others. We are more loveable to some of them than to others. But we are family. We struggle with accepting them as they are while we long for...

The Fruit Basket of the Spirit

The Fruit Basket of the Spirit

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. (Galatians 5:22-23) At a Day of Reflection Carmelite Fr. Stephen Sanchez led us through a meditation on the nine Fruits of the Spirit. These are the attributes of God that the Holy Spirit gives us, develops in us and inspires...