Author Archives: Shelly Miller

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you and fill your 2023.  This past week I watched a Netflix movie called The Christmas Calendar.  The calendar was a larger, antique wooden Advent calendar, that was given to the main character, Abby, by her grandfather.  It was her late grandmother’s calendar.  Once she got the calendarContinue reading “Wednesday, January 4, 2023”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Merry Christmas!!!  Don’t take your nativity set, tree, and decorations down yet.  Within the Catholic church, this year, we celebrate Christmas 12/25/2022 – 01/08/2023.  There’s still plenty of celebrating to do.  Reading through an Advent and Christmas daily devotional called The Little Blue Book, which is basedContinue reading “Wednesday, December 28, 2022”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Closing out my four weeks of Advent focusing on four gifts that I am thankful for, this fourth week I’m focusing on the gift of Holy Communion.  Matthew 26:26-28: ‘While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to His disciplesContinue reading “Wednesday, December 21, 2022”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Continuing my four weeks of Advent focus on four gifts that I am thankful for, this third week I’m focusing on the gift of prayer.  Tuesday morning, I read in Mark’s Gospel 14:32-42. ‘They went to a place called Gethsemane, and He said to His disciples, “Sit hereContinue reading “Wednesday, December 14, 2022”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Continuing my four weeks of Advent focus on four gifts that I am thankful for, this second week I’m focusing on the gift of community.  Monday’s Gospel reading Luke 5:17-26 and Tuesday’s Gospel readings Matthew 18:12-14 are just two of the many passages in the Bible aboutContinue reading “Wednesday, December 7, 2022”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you and happy Advent.  Yes, the countdown has begun or is the countdown just continuing?  In every moment of your life, that exact moment can be the beginning of one journey, while also being the middle and end of other journeys you are traveling.  I find it interestingContinue reading “Wednesday, November 30, 2022”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Happy Thanksgiving Eve everyone.  Reflecting on the past 12 months, I was trying to pinpoint one event, moment, relationship, thing from this past year that I’m more thankful for than anything else.  But there is not one that truly stands above all.  There have been so manyContinue reading “Wednesday, November 23, 2022”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  I chuckled a little to myself Sunday morning at Mass towards the end of the second reading.  2 Thessalonians 3:11-12 “We hear that some are conducting themselves among you in a disorderly way, by not keeping busy but minding the business of others.  Such people we instructContinue reading “Wednesday, November 16, 2022”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  One of the books I’m currently journeying through is called “The WISDOM of the SAINTS.”  This book is composed of 365 daily quotes from the saints to help bring focus in your life.  St. Teresa of Calcutta is quoted multiple times in this book, but here areContinue reading “Wednesday, November 9, 2022”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  When we were making our way through Texas a couple weeks ago, Brian and I were on our way to a national park, but took a wrong turn and ended up visiting “The Coming King” Sculpture Prayer Garden in Kerrville, TX.  It is a beautiful, peaceful placeContinue reading “Wednesday, November 2, 2022”