Carol Whatley, Ed.D.’s Blog
Carol Whatley, Ed.D.
Carol Whatley, Ed.D., a retired communications director, credits her decision to become Catholic in 2004 largely to the influence of BTSR. She earned a Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Spring Hill College in 2015, and she blogs at resurrectionclothes.blogspot.com.
Attitudes I Want to Have
I sought to welcome God consciously into every disturbing thought, feeling, emotion, and situation, and into every encounter with another person or group, whether outwardly ...
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“Take This… Take This”
The “Take this” of Jesus is the offer of the most precious gift in the universe: the very life of Christ
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An Easter Vision
The God of my journaling speaks with a wisdom, kindness, and love that soothes and redirects me.
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Who’s Helping You This Lent?
Do you ever plan to give up something for Lent and then wonder if you’ll make it till Easter?
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Advent Living: Expectation or Anticipation
Expectation or anticipation—what’s the difference?
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Letting Go, With Thanksgiving
Every now and then I get a wake-up call that maybe I can’t save the world. It always comes as a surprise. That’s when I ...
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Sharing our “Most Gratefuls”
For nearly 20 years, my husband and I have been sharing our daily “most gratefuls” before we go to bed each night.
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Lessons from the Time of COVID
Whatever your COVID experience, you’ve probably learned some things about yourself and about what’s most important to you.
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Bloom Where You Are Planted
COVID-time has been quite an adjustment, but, gratefully, this year has helped me find greater patience and acceptance.
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To Know or Not to Know?
Can we “know God” through “unknowing”? Through what is called apophatic prayer? Many people over the centuries have attested to this way of “knowing.”
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Angel Reflections
Years ago I saw a bowl of little cards at my massage therapist’s office, each with a word written on it in calligraphy and a ...
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Alpahbet Prayers
Many years ago I learned a prayer practice involving the alphabet: Giving thanks for a condition, person, or thing—one per letter.
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Casting Cares
The key, no matter how we do it, is to not let the worries, the cares, the frightening “what-ifs” keep talking and talking. They will ...
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Real-izing Faith Today
Surely this “realization” is not just an “aha” moment, but much more. Somehow it is a making real, giving something substance and life, here and ...
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The Gifts of Negative Space
The other day while walking through the woods, I came to a clearing and looked up into a little patch of sky just overhead. And ...
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Simple Graces: Daily Gifts of Joy
What do spiderwebs, journals, sunshine in treetops, old photographs, iced tea, chairs with good back support, and the scent of honeysuckle have in common?
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Hope is a Choice
Have you ever had a time of severe trial of your faith that eventually passed, and you wondered afterward why it was so hard to ...
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