Category: Friends
New Evangelizers: A New Catholic Sister
Featured on New Evangelizers. com As a convert, close spiritual relationships with my Catholic sisters-in-the-Lord are among God’s most treasured and healing gifts. One Catholic sister-in-the-Lord, is dying of brain cancer. She’s the Grateful-for-Adversity Grandmother I wrote about last year. I went to visit her across town when she first was diagnosed and, after many...
God’s To-Do List for you
What’s on God’s to-do list for you today? Does he wake you up early enough to enjoy the beautiful sunrise he created? As you get dressed, does he prompt you to pray for a divorced friend or cancer-stricken relative? Perhaps when you get to work and prepare to give a presentation this afternoon, the connector...
Tour the new website: NancyHCWard.com
Inspiring and Equipping Catholics to Evangelize is the theme of the new website. NancyHCWard.com, It’s meant to help us: Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence. (1 Peter 3:15-16) I’ve gathered all the pertinent information about my...
Joy Stories: Reversion at Passover by Faith Roberts
My reversion back to the Catholic Church was very slow and subtle with many little turning points. One that stands out in my mind happened at Passover dinner. This was before I was even dating my Jewish husband. At that time I was searching for something to believe in. I was very curious about Sufi...
Got Joy? Latest JOYAlive.net posts 1-27-17
Joy Stories: No turning back – The Lord captured Kevin Luksus’ heart in high school. The mindset, “no turning back,” kept him making the hard choices that allowed God to work in his life. CatholicMom: A Catholic sister – As a convert, close spiritual relationships with my Catholic sisters-in-the-Lord are among God’s most treasured and...
Rejoice Always? Really?
Have you ever been grateful for something negative that happened to you? Well, maybe not while it’s happening. A friend of mine is a classic doting grandmother. Nothing fills her with joy more than a visit from her little grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away. She talks about nothing else before, during and after...