Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks

I have been thinking about this over the last few days, after our Sunday homily kind of focused on this point. Even more particularly, our priest mentioned how it is in times of stress that one’s words really reflect what is in the heart. Without time to think about what to say or how to [...]

Sing to the Lord

“My heart and my flesh, alleluia. –Rejoice in the living God, alleluia.” This was the verse from the Office of Readings yesterday, and I spent a while wondering about what it would mean for your flesh to rejoice. This morning, as I read in Psalm 144, “To you, O God, will I [...]

On the Feast of the Annunciation

I managed to drag myself out of bed at 5:45 this morning, something which we used to do, but have had a hard time doing ever since daylight savings time started (how is this saving daylight?  It’s actually wasting my day!).  Not getting up on time really wrecks the flow of the routine we’d established, [...]

Breviary experiment working out so far

I have been saying Morning Prayer every morning this year, and that is a pretty ingrained habit by now. My husband and I say it together, first thing after we drink our morning coffee. That’s one key we have found to helping make something into a habit: attach it mentally to something [...]