“What are you giving up for Lent?” my son, Christian, asked me today. “Meat,” I said (among other things, but I’ll save that for next week’s blog.) Being a huge carnivore like me, Christian responded, “Wow, that will be a really good sacrifice.” But more than giving something up for […]
God’s Love Is The Best Beauty Treatment
“Do you think it’s wrong to have a facelift?” a girlfriend asked as we sat on the beach house sofa in our pajamas, sipping coffee and looking out the window at the boats in the harbor. We were on retreat with a wonderful band of women, and as it frequently […]
Advent Hope: The Pathway Through the Heart
God cut a highway right through Bernie Klein’s heart, an artery that could give him life. Not surprisingly, that’s where Love seeped in. “I died and I clearly remember it,” Bernie told me after waking up from a six-week coma brought on by a massive heart attack and subsequent multiple […]
No Place Like Home
Dorothy Smith surprised and blessed the heck out of my husband and me. Homeless since her mother died in Hurricane Katrina, Dorothy is without a doubt one of the most “at home” people that Mark and I have ever encountered. We met Dorothy two weeks ago in New Orleans, the […]
The Message of the Cross
Judy Landrieu Klein September 17, 2014 I’ve spent the last two weeks trying to articulate both in my own mind and on paper the message of the cross. A difficult endeavor. (Just ask my poor husband, Mark, who’s had to hash this subject out with me multiple times:) It wasn’t […]