Pinned
Editing my next book and I just found this line about the book of Tobit:
How much energy do we waste mourning over suffering that will never come, simply because we've forgotten how to hope?
Gonna need to sit with that one.
Meg Hunter-Kilmer
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Meg Hunter-Kilmer
@MegHunterKilmer
Obsessed with Jesus, Scripture, the Saints, my nieces/nephews/godchildren, and the Olympics (in that order).
Joined April 2012
- Preschool asked for a picture of each kid's mom. This is the weirdest thing they could possibly have done with it.
- Yesterday I raced across the country to make it to a friend's deathbed. She's been telling me for months that I need a sequined jumpsuit, so I pulled off at a rest stop to change into one. The people at the rest stop looked at me like I was nuts, but Rachael was delighted by it.
- My phone just autocorrected "heresy" to "Jesuit" and I just feel like that's a lot of shade to be throwing for a device that doesn't even know the word catechetical but whatever.
- Replying to @MegHunterKilmerSeriously, I walked into the bathroom looking like a woman who hadn't changed her clothes in days. I walked out looking like one of the Supremes. It must have been a sight.
GIF - To the prodigal's older brother when he comes home for Christmas: It is good that he is here. It's good that he's in your parking spot, in your pew. If he's wearing a jersey, if she's wearing a crop top, it is good that they are here.
- When I met my pastor he said, "If you need anything—if you're stranded & need money for a plane ticket—let us know. We'll get you home." Today I drove past him changing some guy's tire in his cassock. Praise God for priests who aren't just fathers to their people, they're dads.
- Today is a good day to remember that women who've had abortions are human beings beloved of the Father and are reading your posts. Be gentle.
- Say a prayer for Mike who I just met in an empty church. He just got out of prison after 17 years and is hopefully making his first confession in decades right now!
- Happy feast of St. Vitalis of Gaza, a hermit who spent the last years of his life with a different prostitute every night. Yup.
- A man near me in adoration was snacking and I was judging him hard until I realized I know him and he's diabetic and probably just trying to avoid a coma and just because I don't know people's circumstances doesn't mean I should judge. Keep your eyes on your own paper, kids.
- Father preached on abortion today. He prefaced it with, "If abortion has touched your life, please know you are so welcome here. You and I are all here because we need mercy. If I say anything to make you feel unloved, please come talk to me so I can make it right." Beautiful.
- I taught his freshman religion class and now he's a deacon!! Say a prayer for Dcn. Chris.
- I have a little autistic friend whose parents told their parish that the big first communion Mass wouldn't be a good environment for her. So Father celebrated a Sunday Mass just for their family. And kept thanking the family for letting him do it. More of this, Church.