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  1. Thanks for sharing honestly how life can be so difficult. I read your words and feel your underlying strength. Thanks also for reminding me of how we are supported by God’s love for us.

  2. LOVE & NEEDED THIS! Though we don’t have littles to wrangle at church…its so so true! Spiritual dryness, suffering, waiting all are tough.stuff at times. What an awesome reminder to whatever we struggle/suffer with…and why we really NEED the Eucharist weekly! thanks momma:)

  3. *APPLAUSE* This is so what I needed to hear today, from trenches even shallower than yours. There’s some truth to the old joke “sleep when you’re dead.” I’m putting on my big girl panties and bundling my baby and me off to daily mass in the morning. Might be just the thing to shake the 3-day funk we’ve been living in. Thanks for your honesty, and for your challenge to focus on what’s important, what can actually sustain us through this crazy season!!

  4. So, I don’t have kids yanking on me at Mass or any other time of the day, but I can relate to this in the way that ALL THE THINGS are yanking my mind and heart away from it all. Spiritual dryness sucks. It just sucks. And I have to keep reminding myself every day that we were not made for comfort, but for greatness. Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…

  5. Oh Carolyn. This is all so true. It’s so hard to keep going when everything is tough, tough, tough. Whenever I feel this way too, I try to remember that God understands my feelings even when I don’t and even when I don’t understand Him. It sorta helps, it’s still tough though. Deep spiritual insights I’ve got right?

  6. Thank you for your honesty and openness to talk about your own hardships and spiritual dryness. It is nice to know I am not the only one. I had a similar Easter- wanted to feel something extraordinary and experience the incredible-ness of this feast day but I instead felt nothing special. I have been dealing with spiritual dryness and mental illness on top of that for 7 years and it is hard. It is very encouraging to be reminded that Chrisianity is not for the faint hearted and consolation on this earth is not a necessary component of Christianity. Thank you for the encouragement today!

  7. Girl, I love you! This was just what I needed to hear/read. I’m facing more medical issues after a surgery result last week was inclusive and my every waking moment has been fraught with worries about what will happen, and what the results will be after my next set of tests are done, and being afraid to go the bathroom because of the ouchies. It’s so hard to not crawl into a hole and cry, whispering, “why me, Lord why me?” It’s me because God is always with me and therefor I can handle it. it’s not rainbows and happy sunshine time, but that’s how life goes, that’s how Christ’s life went. And with God by my side there is nothing I cannot handle.

    :)

  8. YES!!!! Oh my goodness.. yes. All of it.. I really wish we could hang out again, and talk, again. Maybe I’ll text you. Because ALL OF THIS!!
    I’m sitting here at my laptop crying.. because YES!!
    I lived that vigil Mass last year, without a diagnosis, and it was only marginally better at the Easter Sunday Mass this year.
    I should stop here before my comment becomes a blog of it’s own.
    But.. I lift my coffee cup to you, my friend!!

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