Each evening I read a chapter of JRR Tolkien’s epic, The Lord of the Rings, to our youngest boys. I think this might be my third read through of Frodo the hobbit’s long journey from his home in the Shire in a remote corner of Middle Earth to Mordor’s Mount Doom to destroy the One…
Tag: humility
A spirituality of motherhood and creativity
From my Catholic Weekly column, which I was recalling today. I still very much feel that this is true about the creativity of motherhood, or at least, my experience of it. Though we live very different lives, I could relate to what the celebrated Australian artist Michael Leunig described about the way that he is able…
Getting over feeling blah
*It’s been a long time since I wrote here or anywhere else. I thought I’d visit my site today and found this post I’d been preparing in mid-February. I never got to send it, because just after this I felt much worse and stopped everything, tipping into real burn out I think. I’m over my…
Humility Is A Gift
My column recently published in The Catholic Weekly. “Unless you become like little children you will not enter the kingdom of heaven,” this was the Gospel I heard two Sundays ago while Isaac, our two-year old, slept warm and heavy on my lap. I get it. Toddlers are so unassuming, so forgiving, so transparent, so…
Marilyn Rodrigues 