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Seeing Peace: A Stay Connected Journal for Catholic Women

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What a perfectly timed resource! Show of hands: Who’s feeling a little anxious? Who’s struggling to hand it all over to God, multiple times a day? 🙋🏻‍♀️ Worries about health, family, education, the economy, our world, and on and on. THIS journal is a prescription for finding peace.

Allison Gingras shares her personal lifelong struggle with worry and anxiety, helping you to journey to a place of peace and trust. This journal uses Scripture, the saints, devotions, and more to guide you with plenty of space for you to reflect. (And you can make it pretty with some colored pencils too!)

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Overcoming Worry and Relinquishing the Need to Know

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By Guest Blogger Jeannie Ewing

It could be any day now, I tell myself as I huff and puff my way to the midwife’s exam room. Everything seems different, new, and I can’t seem to determine whether or not all of these changes are good. I pat my expanding belly and offer our daughter in utero a wry smile. “I can’t wait to meet you, Veronica,” I tenderly whisper to her, even as the fear sweeps over my heart.

The what ifs aren’t just nervous jitters. Well, maybe some of them are. My what ifs involve reliving the very dramatic and in some ways traumatic birthing experience I had with our soon-to-be middle daughter, Sarah. I went from a joyful anticipation in early labor to complete, drop-dead terror as my doctor announced a necessary c-section was in order.

Photo by Olsztyn Poland, unsplash.com

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Relevant Fiction Reviews: Conquering Fear and Worry

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Relevant Fiction Reviews

In my totally unqualified opinion,  worry and anxiety are epidemics in modern culture. Fear, worry, anxiety –  they all separate us from God’s love. “Be not afraid,” the first words of Pope St. John Paul II’s pontificate, appear frequently in the Gospels. (I’ve found references to those words or a variation appearing from 120 times in the Gospels to 365 times throughout the Bible.) And yet, our lack of faith and our pride prevent us from  taking those words to heart. From letting go and letting God.

Within the space of a few days last month, I read two stellar books that address exactly these issues: one a contemporary romance and the other biblical fiction. Continue reading →