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Heaven in Your Home Letters

Spiritual Fruits of Exhaustion?

November 7, 2023

Listen Now A friend and mother of multiple young children emailed us the other day mentioning that she and her family are in a “season of extreme exhaustion.” She and her husband are bouncing back and forth between kids’ health…

All Saints & Hearts for Service

October 31, 2023

Listen Now Last Saturday, with an hour to spare between the parent-chauffeur’s Saturday drop-offs (a daughter’s tennis lesson) and pick-ups (a son’s piano lesson), Soren squeezed in a father-son outing to an elderly friend. Her backyard and sidewalk were covered…

The Outsized Impact of Your Family Meals

October 24, 2023

Listen Now For this week’s Letter on Family Culture, Level 4 of your Trinity House, we are delighted to share our interview with Nick George. He’s a third-year clinical psychology doctoral student at Divine Mercy University, and he’s focusing his…

Woodpiles, Pear Harvests & Fall Family Teamwork

October 17, 2023

Listen Now It didn’t take long for our youngest son to start stacking the newly-delivered cord of firewood at the end of the driveway. What began as a father-son project turned into an “I’ve-got-this, Dad” moment for our son to demonstrate…

Approaching Blocks to Growth and Relating

October 10, 2023

Listen Now We’ve all been there. An argument with a co-worker or spouse flares up. A good friend or the boss does that thing that makes us crazy. It could be about anything—schedules, chores, unmatching expectations, communication styles, money, overtime hours, disciplining the…

A Vision & Plan for Family Life

October 3, 2023

Listen Now Maybe our story will sound familiar. When we fastened the seatbelts in the rollercoaster of parenting for the first time, on an unforgettable day in February 2003, we didn’t have a vision, plan, or strategy. No one had shared a…

Our Top 5 Mistakes with Family Culture

September 26, 2023

Listen Now We’ve made quite a few mistakes over the years in our attempts to build Family Culture, Level 4 of a Trinity House. And we hope you can learn from them! But first, a recap. When the work is done, it’s time…

Menial Tasks & Heaven in Your Home

September 19, 2023

Listen Now A priest friend recently shared how he had heard the idea of “Menial Task Thursdays” from a brother priest. Before he corralled his menial tasks, they had hung over him like a fog all week. Now, as various bills or requests…

What Do You Need from This Conversation?

September 12, 2023

Listen Now The other day, one of us (let’s just leave this a little vague) needed to vent. About the “overwhelm”. About how non-stop life is. About the sudden explosion of the fall schedule with our kids running in ten directions…

12 Easy Ways to Reset Family Prayer

September 5, 2023

Listen Now Some friends recently shared that their family prayer time had become so awful that they quit. And they’re certainly not alone. Whatever the reason—new baby, summer laxity, a move, tough teens, screen addictions—we all need strategies to reboot family prayer…

God Beat Us to It

August 29, 2023

Listen Now Our son, who recently left for his first year of college, called home with a fascinating report. Following Sunday Mass at his new, admittedly much smaller, parish, he experienced something very different from the (unfortunately all-too-common) rush to the…

Living Liturgically Deepens Family Culture

August 22, 2023

We don’t know about your family…but ours has slipped a bit this summer when it comes to evening prayer time. We shared this with a priest friend of ours the other day, and he said, “This is a fitting moment to…