I am amazed by the amount of reflection that came from a simple question from my daughter: Why don’t I want to get a manicure?
Valerie Schultz
Valerie Schultz is a freelance writer, a columnist for The Bakersfield Californian and the author of Till the Moon Be No More: The Grit and Grace of Growing Older. She lives on the Oregon Coast.
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The presentation of our children
A Reflection for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, by Valerie Schultz
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False prophets in the wake of Christmas
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. John Neumann, Bishop, by Valerie Schultz
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Mary is every mother who has lost a child
No matter how a mother loses a child, the mourning must feel like an abyss. Mary’s child is every child who has died too soon.
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To learn God’s ways, we need to become teachable
A Reflection for Monday of the Third Week of Advent, by Valerie Schultz
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Pope Leo (and The Beatles) are right: Money can’t buy us love.
The people we meet as we go about God’s work are more important and more life-changing than any amount of money we could donate.
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All the angels and saints
A Reflection for the Solemnity of All Saints, by Valerie Schultz
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Sometimes we are Martha. Sometimes we are Mary.
A Reflection for the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, by Valerie Schultz
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Hope is the word for today
A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
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Catholics: Act like God’s (worker) bees
Maybe if Catholics were to think of ourselves and conduct ourselves as God’s workers and drones, as holy bees within God’s holy hive, the world would benefit.