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It’s official. I’m not a country girl. Eight days buried in rural Cedar, Michigan, without access to high speed Internet, was just too much for my online-dependent self to bear. I’m not sure how my twin sister and I shared a womb: she is a gourmet chef, I can’t boil water; she fetches her eggs…

Thanks to reader Linda who directed me to David Kuo’s blog post, “Drawing Nearer to God,” in which he writes: What strikes me over and over again about holy people is the simple persistence in doing little things – being quiet, praying, listening, meditating. I tend to think that I have to do big things…

My mom always tells me that when you hear something more than once, that’s God talking to you. More than a few people have asked me recently, “Do you set aside time in your day to pray or mediate?” “Yes,” I reply. “I pray a novena to St. Therese as I jog around the campus…

Sr. Kathryn Hermes, a fellow depressive, writes eloquently about how to pray when you’re depressed. Click here to see Beliefnet’s gallery reprinted from her book, “Surviving Depression: A Catholic Approach.” It begins this way: When you’re depressed, you may discover that the shadows and tempests of that depression alter the way you look at God…
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