Author Archives: Shelly Miller

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  This past weekend was another successful Walk to Emmaus weekend.  Was it a success because of how smoothly everything ran?  Nope.  It was an Emmaus weekend, which means Satan will mess with the team, the Pilgrims, the volunteers, and basically anything and everything he can to standContinue reading “Wednesday, January 25, 2023”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  When you hear or sing the words, “Here I am Lord.”, what is the next line you think or sing? 1) Is it I Lord? 2) It is I Lord. Are you questioning what God has called you to do or are you making a statement theContinue reading “Wednesday, January 18, 2023”

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Today I would like to share with you the final reflection of The Little Blue Book Advent and Christmas Season 2022-2023, which was dated 01/09/2023. ‘Prophets of a future not our own’ While serving as a priest in the Detroit Archdiocese, Bishop Ken Untener wrote the followingContinue reading “Wednesday, January 11, 2023”

😎🐫🎤 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”