Beyond Pearls: Just Me

Just Me

I was called to be a child of God on the day of my Baptism - my entry into the Roman Catholic Church - just a few hours after I was born, but I didn't really take HIM seriously until 1994, after nearly 10 years of marriage and motherhood.

My husband and I prove the adage that opposites attract. We couldn't be any more different! He's a "serving others by the sweat of his brow" kind of guy, while I'm more, well ... contemplative. Together, we have raised four children and are immersed in the joy of grand-parenthood.

The HOLY SPIRIT continues to shape me, to mold me, to teach me, and to offer me moment after moment of discovery, as I stumble and am sometimes carried along this journey.

Welcome to Beyond Pearls

where I share little snippets of my sojourn, whenever HE nudges (and whenever I find the time).

I am very happy you have popped in for a visit!

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding. 1 Chronicles 29:15

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"It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal." ~ Saint Pope John Paul, the Great

“One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, War Within & Without: Diaries And Letters Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944