Weekly Wildflowers #32
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Friends,
I’m writing to you from the road. Every year my family journeys to North Carolina for Christmas and time with family. We’ve been doing this for years now, enough to call it a true tradition. We’re spending the days leading up to Christmas with my folks on the coast and then we head back inland. For Christmas Day we attend Mass at the Cathedral in Raleigh (which is truly stunning btw) and then get precious time for cousins to run around while adults catch up, and enjoy great food.
It is a season of family, faith, and rest. I truly hope you are, like us, taking time to rest. To that end, this will be the final Weekly Wildflowers of 2025. Hard to believe! I plan to take next weekend off to truly rest, and recharge after a long and difficult latter half of this year.
Below you can find the biggest hits of 2025 that you all liked, commented and shared with friends and family, as well as the results of the last poll! I’ll link to a new poll for January.
Merry Christmas!!
AMDG
I thought it would be fun to do a little countdown. So here we go!
Coming in 4th Place:
A Fulfilling Faith
This is the first in a short series on what it means to live a fulfilling faith as a Catholic today: not just surviving but truly belonging, growing, and living as part of the Body of Christ. It’s not meant to cover every angle, but to offer a real and honest reflection on what many of us are longing for: deeper connection, clearer purpose, and a faith that’s fully lived.
Coming in 3rd:
Faith in the Flesh: Hospitality that Reveals the Kingdom
Can’t you almost taste the richness of a faith fully lived — woven into the rhythms, the crevices, the sacred quiet of daily life? The kind that quenches a long-unfilled thirst.
Coming in 2nd:
Death as Content, Faith as Resistance
As a writer it is difficult to balance taking the time to find the right words and being timely with those words.
Coming in 1st:
What Five Years of Infertility Has Taught Me About God
In late summer, we found out we were expecting after five years of secondary infertility. We were as shocked as we were thrilled, and I even shared a tiny hint that we had a long awaited answer to prayer. Then, a week later I found myself in the emergency department with cramping, and bleeding. After blood work and tests, we learned it was an ectopic pregnancy.
Gaudete Sunday Check-in: How is Advent landing for you this year?
I feel this so much friends. But I love how we all realize that showing up is the most important part, and that it’s ok to be a little messy and incomplete. I wish you all a blessed remainder of your Advent season and a joyous Christmas!
You can check out this week’s poll.
