While I always enjoy church-wide Art Night and church-wide Game Night, I’ve been craving a church-wide event that deepens our connections with God, our connections with one another and is meaningful for all involved. Therefore, you must know that my heart was SO happy on Sunday evening at Let Us Pray. I loved watching children,…
Month: January 2018
No Agenda
Sometimes I get an idea, and I can’t let it go, and it ends up with me doing things like requesting to be friends with everyone on Facebook who has the same name that I do. There are about 20 of us Matt/Matthew/Mateo Ybañeze’s on Facebook. It’s my own name and I still don’t know…
Ordinary Time
Christmas is over. Lent doesn’t start for a few more weeks. We are in part of the church calendar that is called “Ordinary Time.” Ordinary Time occurs twice in the liturgical calendar–after Christmastide ends at Epiphany and after Eastertide ends at Pentecost. We tend to focus on the special times like Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter…
I’m Not Wishing You a Happy New Year
My son blessed me last night. Not in the typical, motherly, “Oh my child is such a blessing,” way. He literally blessed me. After he crawled into bed, he said, “Mommy, I want to give you a blessing.” He took my hand, made the sign of a cross on it and said, “Mommy, you are…
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