Tag: encouragement

• The Stations of Acceptance

  

  It’s easy to look back with sighs of regret, as a mother “in the weeds,” as a person in midlife, having made life’s commitment at last, at the unfinished work; work that has been eclipsed by the demands of your dependents, and cannot be attended to again for some months or years, if ever. What…

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  June 15, 2024

  Art Life, Catholicism, Marriage and Family Life, Motherhood, painting, spirituality

  art, Birth, Catholicism, Christianity, covid, Creative Process, creativity, death, encouragement, faith, Family, family life, gospel, Healing, inspiration, Jesus, Lent, love, mental health, miscarriage, Motherhood, painting, post partum, pregnancy, recovery, religion, spirituality, The Way of the Cross, trauma, vocation, wellness

• A Walk in the Woods with Magdalen

  

  “God made the world, mama! God made the whole world!”

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  June 11, 2024

  Art Life, Christianity, spirituality

  anxiety, Catholicism, death, encouragement, faith, Family, gospel, Healing, inspiration, love, mental health, Motherhood, nature, prayer, religion, scripture, spirituality, trauma, vocation

• The Words of My Teachers : An Invisible Treasury

  

  There was always that hint of self-doubt within my mind as a teacher, especially when faced with a student who is having trouble. ‘Do I really have the answers here?’ Yet, in faith, I would open my mouth, and without knowing how, the needed wisdom would come tumbling out like a magic coin to save…

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  June 7, 2024

  Art Life, Christianity, Creative Process, education, Motherhood, spirituality, teaching

  art, Christianity, encouragement, faith, inspiration, learning, teaching