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Schmidt, Lisa

What’s Your One Big Thing?

January 19, 2019 by Lisa Schmidt Leave a Comment

Last year a friend completed a program called “Plan Your Year: Your Guide to an Awesome 2018.” It’s a framework where you sit down at the beginning of the year and strategize different goals you’d like to accomplish over the year. You end up narrowing down your goals into the “one big thing” to focus on. Then you break down that one thing into something small and simple you can do each day, each month of the year, in incremental steps. The work my friend did with Plan Your Year helped her focus and channel energy throughout 2018 to make progress with her one big thing. I left that conversation asking: What’s my one big thing?

Posted in: Faith, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: 5-minute Reflection, Lisa Schmidt

Happy All the Things! Here’s to Joy-Filled Ordinary Times

January 13, 2019 by Lisa Schmidt Leave a Comment

Given we re-enter Ordinary Time tomorrow, Monday, January 14, I guess I haven’t quite missed the boat on sending you Christmas greetings from Das Schmidt Haus. So let’s get it all out in the open now. Merry Christmas, Happy 2019, a blessed Epiphany, and a spirited Baptism of the Lord to you! I pray your … [Read more…]

Posted in: Deacon's Wife, Family, Schmidt, Lisa, Speaking Tagged: 5-minute Reflection, Das Schmidt Haus, Lisa Schmidt

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? #WorldKindnessDay

November 13, 2018 by Lisa Schmidt Leave a Comment

On #WorldKindnessDay, a post in honor of one who showered his neighborhood with love, grace, and kindness: Mr. Fred Rogers

Posted in: Faith, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: Community, Lisa Schmidt, Mr. Rogers, Timothy Cardinal Dolan

Dogs and Holy Leisure

October 4, 2018 by Lisa Schmidt 1 Comment

On this Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron of animals, a quick post recollecting on how a dog ushered a bit of holy leisure into our lives.

Posted in: Family, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: Das Schmidt Haus, Dog, Holy Leisure, Sophie, St. Francis of Assisi

Feed Me!

October 2, 2018 by Lisa Schmidt Leave a Comment

Feed Me! Praying with the psalms

Posted in: Deacon's Wife, Faith, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: Psalm 145, Psalms

Thoughts on Listening, Silence and “Floating the Tongue”

July 31, 2018 by Lisa Schmidt 2 Comments

Do you have a favorite place where your heart just sings while there? I have a couple — Napa Valley, California and Conception Abbey in Missouri. A strange combination, yes. But oh, how I love both! Joel and I recently participated in a spiritual retreat for deacons and their wives at one of those locations … [Read more…]

Posted in: Deacon's Wife, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: Conception Abbey, Deacon's Wife, Listening

Keeping First Things First: Conducting a Time Audit

July 27, 2018 by Lisa Schmidt 1 Comment

In Sonja Corbitt’s fantastic book Fearless: Conquer Your Demons and Love with Abandon (go get it!) she writes, “I’m no prophet but I have learned through discerning patterns that, when I see or hear something two or more times, I can be sure God is at work somehow. I know to pay attention to what happens next … [Read more…]

Posted in: Pray Work Rest & Play, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: Time Audit

Come away and rest a while

July 22, 2018 by Lisa Schmidt 3 Comments

It’s been almost two years since Joel or I have shared any new content on this site. Wow, two years? I really didn’t think it had been that long. It’s not like we set about to intentionally take a break. It just organically happened. In hindsight, necessarily happened. As Jesus says in the Gospel of Mark 6:31: Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.

Posted in: Being Deacon, Family, Pregnancy and Infant Loss, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: Conception Abbey, Das Schmidt Haus, Deacon Joel, Home Improvements, John Kolbe, Lisa Schmidt, Not Homeschooling, St. Pius X, The Water Jar, The Well

Joy in the Mourning

September 30, 2016 by Lisa Schmidt 19 Comments

My smile is presently bigger as October ushers in many events and celebrations that simply make me happy. But it’s also a bittersweet time of year for me given my father suddenly passed away on September 30, 2009. I now am annually flooded with memories of that fateful day just about the same time the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faith, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: Beatitudes, Dad, Dreams, Grief, Jesus, Mary, Month of the Holy Rosary, Mourning, October, Rosary, Sorrow

A Field Guide For The Daily Acts of Catholic Life

March 29, 2016 by Lisa Schmidt 1 Comment

“I grew up Catholic but haven’t always been sure what it means to live out my Catholic faith beyond Sunday.” If this sounds familiar, here’s a resource for you! Even if doesn’t sound familiar, here’s a terrific resource for you: a field guide for the daily acts of Catholic life.

Posted in: Faith, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: Book Review, CatholicMom.com, Das Schmidt Haus, Domestic Church, Living the Liturgy
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