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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

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

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

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

Easter Bits and Pieces from Das Schmidt Haus

March 28, 2016 by Lisa Schmidt 5 Comments

“Enter the Tomb and Wonder!” Here’s Joel’s Easter Sunday 2016 homily and other Easter bits and pieces from Das Schmidt Haus.

Posted in: Homilies, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: Das Schmidt Haus, Easter, Homily, Saint of the Month Club, St. Joseph

Doors Keep Slamming In Your Face? Turn to St. Joseph!

March 19, 2016 by Lisa Schmidt 2 Comments

Running the race with perseverance doesn’t always involve running. Sometimes, running the race simply means moving forward. St. Joseph certainly did a lot of walking. From Nazareth to Bethlehem to Egypt and back again. He is a model of faith because he keeps walking, even in the dark. So here’s to saying yes to God, to walking and moving forward even if (when?) doors are slammed in your face.

Posted in: Faith, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: Saint of the Month Club, St. Joseph, St. Joseph Altar Celebration

Take a Leap of Faith. Come to the Well!

February 29, 2016 by Lisa Schmidt 2 Comments

Happy Leap Day! Given this day comes around once every four years, I am excited to use (or abuse) the occasion to ask you to take … wait for it … a leap of faith with me. Read more about this call from God that has me completely energized and absolutely terrified all at once. It’s called The Well: An Encounter for Women.

Posted in: Faith, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: The Well

Getting a Piggyback Ride from the Good Shepherd

February 26, 2016 by Lisa Schmidt 19 Comments

Feeling tired? Limping along? Thanks to Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and a sweet five-year-old, I was reminded that sometimes we simply must allow the Good Shepherd to give us a piggyback ride for a while.

Posted in: Faith, Schmidt, Lisa Tagged: Atrium, Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, Jesus, Montessori, Simplicity of Heart, The Good Shepherd
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