It was January when Steve at Japanese Auto Clinic delivered the news: my 1991 Toyota Camry was rusting out from underneath. As a physician talking with a terminal patient, Steve said I had a year, but he wouldn’t push it to two. I started looking in May with a list of specifications: I wanted another… Continue reading God Brought Me a Car
Author: Melanie
Melanie Rigney is the author of Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century and other Catholic books. She is a contributor to Living Faith and other Catholic blogs. She lives in Arlington, Virginia. Melanie also owns Editor for You, a publishing consultancy that since 2003 has helped hundreds of writers, publishers, and agents.
Thank You, Lord
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. It’s easy to focus on the things that drive us a little nuts about God: those admonitions to love not only our neighbors, but
Assumptions and the Assumption
August 15, 7:30 a.m. or so, nearly fifty years ago. My sister and I were awakened by our father, who was bursting with news. Mom, who suffered through a long, hot summer (with an average daily high in July of 89 degrees) of pregnancy, had just given birth to not one but two
Who’s In Charge Here?
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. So there you are, tooling along with your little life and everything’s going fine and wham, out of nowhere, something throws you for a loop.