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Saint Jude’s Important Question

October 28, 2022 By Emily Gowdy Canady Leave a Comment

When my kids were younger, my husband and I did a lot of faith-at-home practices throughout the year.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Feast Days, Jesus, St. Jude, St. Simon, teenagers, tweens

Sharing Space with Jesus and Making Room for Skepticism

October 23, 2021 By Emily Gowdy Canady Leave a Comment

What in the world it must have been like to be the oldest brother of Jesus?! Really, what would it be like to share space with a sibling who is the Son of God?

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Filed Under: Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: doubt, Faith, Feast Days, Jesus, siblings, St. James of Jerusalem

When Summer Camp is Living Our Best Life

August 21, 2021 By Emily Gowdy Canady 1 Comment

I remember that first pick-up — he was sweaty, hoarse, stinky, and did not want to leave.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: camp, God, parenting, summer

Gifts Found on the Bumpy Road

June 21, 2021 By Emily Gowdy Canady 1 Comment

Though we are not out of the woods yet, I’ve already begun looking in the rear-view mirror. In doing so, I’ve found some amazing gifts from this time. 

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: cancer, children, death, godparents, Prayer

Including Children and Youth in AdventWord

November 28, 2020 By Emily Gowdy Canady Leave a Comment

So often children and young people are perceived as only receivers of Christian Formation. In reality they have so much to offer us.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, adventword, children, Lifelong Learning, social media, Virginia Theological Seminary, youth

Prayer Pumpkins

October 1, 2020 By Emily Gowdy Canady 3 Comments

Some days it’s hard for me to think about the last 24 months or so. I have gone from being an 18-month plan-ahead kind of person to a taking-it-one-day-at-a- time kind of person.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Prayer, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: children, gratitude, Holidays, Prayer, spiritual practice, thankfulness

Maintaining Relationships with Godparents

August 9, 2020 By Emily Gowdy Canady Leave a Comment

When the social isolation impacts of the Coronavirus began, I was talking to my kids’ shared godmother about how she was doing.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: coronavirus, family dinner, godparenting, screen time

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale’s Unprecedented Gratitude

April 30, 2020 By Emily Gowdy Canady Leave a Comment

Our family likes to celebrate and decorate for just about every holiday.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, coronavirus, godparents, gratitude, Holidays, poetry, Thanksgiving

Sharing the Love of God through Valen-Kinds

February 14, 2020 By Emily Gowdy Canady 5 Comments

My family was working our way through a 14-day Valen-Kinds daily devotion. This year, as we inch towards Valentine’s Day, I am more than ready to get out the big felt heart, scripture sticks, and notecards.

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Deepening Our Family’s Faith through the Jesse Tree

December 23, 2019 By Emily Gowdy Canady 2 Comments

In 2015, as my family raced through the fall, my then first grader and three-year-old were already talking about Christmas. Barely past his 7th birthday in October, my son had moved onto Christmas. One day he asked, “Why can’t we just skip to Christmas? Advent is so boring!”

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, Bible, crafts, jesse tree, parenting

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