The Catholic Woodworker

Eric and I took the boys camping this weekend along with a good friend of ours.  We had an awesome weekend, and made some great memories.  I wanted to share a few lessons I learned leading up to and during the weekend:

• Guard your time
• God has the plan

Last month I shared a personal story about How God Moves Us.  I have been slowly working through a book that came out of that experience... I'm only on page 40, but each page is a goldmine.

The message is this: The Holy Spirit is essential to our Christian life and is needed to progress on the path on which God leads us.  The Holy Spirit inspires, but we have to be disposed to notice and respond to these inspirations. 

It is our mission to equip families for battle in the modern world.  Spiritual warfare is life long battle which means our customers need weapons that last a lifetime.  As we continue to grow and learn, we are constantly optimizing our business and operations.  There are 3 areas we are focused on that will translate to improvements that benefit you as a customer.

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I have a story I want to share for all of you out there who feel far away from the Lord, lost in the desert, in a fog or another, similar mental/spiritual state. This is a story about little bread crumbs from Heaven that led me out of that place of desolation and back into awareness of God’s love and grace. 

Last week I began a one year program in the Resilient Catholics Community lead by Dr. Peter Malinoski at soulsandhearts.com. Souls and Hearts was developed to meet the needs of practicing Catholics who struggle with the everyday challenges of life. Grounded in a Catholic anthropology, Souls and Hearts' contributors draw from the psychological sciences to offer Catholics mental health education and information in an online format.