It’s a big week. Yesterday was Ash Wednesday – this important day in the Christian calendar that begins the season of Lent. It’s a day we remember our mortality and the ways we continually miss the mark on living as God would have us. This week we be…
When Mary Trafford was 8 years old, her mom gave her a choice: learn how to sew or take piano lessons. “I took piano lessons for two weeks. I’ve been sewing ever since,” Mary said. Mary is the creative power behind two art quilts hanging in the Libra…
This is the fourth in an occasional series on faith pathways: Service, Nature, Study and Intellect, Contemplative, Artistic, Relationships, and Traditions. Meet four St. Paul people who connect with God through their artistic endeavors: Painting, Poe…
Kit Whan is very much a business-oriented person. She says she thought she didn’t have one creative bone in her body… until one morning she saw something on the Today show. It was a segment about adults coloring. With her sister in town for a visit,…
A Powerball official told this Munford, Tennessee couple that they’d have to be content with an immediate check for a couple million dollars until the lump sum payout can be processed. That processing requires about 10 business days. It’s hard to ima…
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His family bought the wooden loom for his grandfather when Jim Case was 5 or 6 years old. His grandpa had emphysema. Back then, one of the treatments for the disease was to periodically place people in isolation. Since the Case family couldn’t go to…
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I recently returned from a week with St. Paul people in the Dominican Republic. On the last day there, our trip coordinator, Heather, took us out to a little sandbar just off the coast. The excursion gave us a chance to relax after a week of work, an…
Near Fourth and Iowa streets in Davenport, at the lunch hour on Wednesday, 50 people stood bundled up in the chill of the January sun and prayed. Many of them Catholic sisters from area orders, they gathered at the site of one of two dozen billboards…
Each person expresses and experiences love in different ways – does the way you express love get the message across? Derek Ball, a marriage and family therapist, will lead a two-part discussion on The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman, Jan. 31 and…
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This week, I was on the phone with my sister pondering the most effective way to work through a formidable to-do list. We all have our to-do lists, things that are important, things that have to get done, and have to get done in the right order. They…
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Most of us probably do not keep our homes in immaculate condition seven days a week. If you’re like me, picking up all of the clutter, recycling junk mail, and having every dish washed and put away isn’t always a priority. It becomes a priority if s…
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Hope Yates, a first-year student at Iowa State University, will be pulling an all-nighter on Friday night. Hope is a dedicated student, but this staying-up-all-night event will not be to study for a big test or finish a paper. She will be putting on…