“Mama, I’m just so cold.” Standing on a sandbar in Lake Superior, my young daughter, face white, turned to look at me and promptly fell, fainting, into my arms.
Category: Columns
Something for nothing
As a born and raised Midwesterner, nothing speaks to my heart like a good deal.
Collateral damage
Tough love can have its place, but without true compassion, it can also be very destructive; dismissal and indifference were gasoline on my ever-smoldering fire of pain and confusion.
Clinging to our rock . . . our Faith . . . Our Lord
“So there is a delay of unknown time . . . ” my daughter’s text read, and she feared she wouldn’t make her connecting flight in time.
Playing our part in the Body of Christ
Have you ever thought about what part you are in the Body of Christ?
Chipping away
I know I ended with another teaser last month (that I’ve been introduced to a new medical approach to my long-standing spinal issues), but you’ll have to endure a bit of a wait for that revelation. A little sidetrack is in order.
Awestruck by Our Lord’s majesty, power . . . and humility
It had started out as a normal camping trip complete with tents, sleeping bags, pillows, flashlights, firewood, and s’mores.
None of us expected anything more than hiking and kayaking in the beautiful nature that surrounded our family of six.
Mountains of melo-trauma
I could spend an entire year’s worth of columns trying to share the volume of information floating in cyberspace (and piled on brick-and-mortar bookshelves) about trauma.
Sticking with my chosen metaphor, it’s like that giant snow bank at the end of your driveway as December draws to a close, and before any January thaw comes to the rescue.
One flake at a time
I thought about taking this column on a 90-degree turn from last month’s “Snowball” cliffhanger, but I’m feeling too guilty about stringing you along ad infinitum, so we shan’t skip a beat.
The gift of the stars
Editor’s Note: This is the final column written by Linda E. Kelly for the Catholic Herald prior to her death on May 5 of this year. We thank her family for letting us share her talents and stories with others.