"But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as EAGLES. They shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."
– Isaiah 40:31
Kathy Schiffer is the wife of a deacon and mother of three grown children, and currently works as Communications/ Media Relations Coordinator for Guest House, the treatment center for Catholic clergy and religious.
ShareOur cable carrier picks up WGN, the network from Chicago which aired several videos from Fr. Robert Barron’s 10-part series titled “Catholicism.” The series–at least, four parts of it–will be coming to PBS in October, with the other six videos to be aired on EWTN beginning in November. I jumped through hoops to see the first ones, [...]
ShareSo there I was, bustling about the house getting ready for work, and this Big Brown THING caught my eye. It was a beetle, moseying along on the living room carpet. No husband in sight to rescue me, I did the best I could: I scooped it up in a wad of Kleenex and….. …crushed [...]
ShareIt was more than ten years ago that I fell in love with Greenville, South Carolina. Greenville is located in the Upstate, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. From the highway, you can catch a glimpse of the mountains to the northwest; and it’s an easy drive to Charleston and the Atlantic Ocean [...]
ShareDoesn't it sometimes seem that you were meant to live in a different age? That the world has turned and somehow, you didn't get the memo? I ran across an article on “The Poetry of Faith” which appeared in Time Magazine. Published on July 1, 1946, it offered a thumbs-up review of a new anthology of [...]
ShareWe lost a mighty tree in our front yard this winter. It was an ash, and yes, it was already dead—defeated by Michigan’s pernicious emerald ash borer. When it toppled during a windstorm, it brought down the electrical wires, snapping a wooden pole, pulling the meter off our house and taking out the cable and [...]