Terri Thomas 6/3/24 Terri Thomas 6/3/24

Will You Be on Our Lady’s A-Team?

Terri Thomas 5/29/24 Terri Thomas 5/29/24

My Lifelines - God's Amazing Grace

"The Church is a field hospital for the wounded, not a haven for saints. Its doors opened two thousand years ago, and they are still open today. Inside these doors can be found true peace and joy, especially for those who are hopeless, hurting, or suffering" (Pope Francis).

Terri Thomas 11/17/23 Terri Thomas 11/17/23

Use Sacrifice Beads & Suffering to Help Your Loved Ones

After Brett passed away, it seemed to me that God was giving me signs that he was saved (for which I am so grateful). I asked a priest, whom I knew was faithful to the Magisterium of the Church, if I could count on this. His answer I have never forgotten. It has helped me in so many ways even though it was difficult to hear at first!

Terri Thomas 8/2/23 Terri Thomas 8/2/23

Taking on the Strong Man through Redemptive Suffering

How can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house (Matthew 12:29).

Terri Thomas 6/6/23 Terri Thomas 6/6/23

Spiritual Warfare: Living Water of Redemptive Suffering

The material from this post was written many years before my son's death in 2015 but the lessons learned and habits formed at that time in my life were so important in enabling me to stay connected to God during my darkest hour.

Terri Thomas 5/31/23 Terri Thomas 5/31/23

Why Do We Have to Carry our Crosses?

Isn't What Jesus Did Enough?

We know why Jesus died on the cross but why do we have to carry our crosses? Wasn't what Jesus did enough?

Of course what Jesus did was "enough." That is not the right question. Rather, it should be: "Exactly what was it enough for?"

Terri Thomas 5/29/23 Terri Thomas 5/29/23

I Leave It in His Hands

"The sun could have not risen that day and it would have been less surprising than what actually happened." Sammie Wood, a mother of three, homemaker, and cattle rancher from Clayton, New Mexico, spoke through tears as she recalled the events of Aug. 10, 2014.

Terri Thomas 5/29/23 Terri Thomas 5/29/23

Burying Mom: Grief, Temptation, Grace

Shocked, cheeks wet with tears, thoroughly pierced with grief, I drove in the late night to my parent’s home. I tried to imagine that my younger brother’s words spoken on the phone, “Mom is gone”, did not necessarily mean that she had died.

Terri Thomas 5/28/23 Terri Thomas 5/28/23

Combating Hedonism by Living the Message of Fatima

Our Lady came to Fatima to begin the formation of her “A Team” – a team of new “missionary disciples” who would be bright lights in a time of darkness, and by living an authentically Catholic life, would mission to people who had received a perverted form of the Catholic Faith through Modernism; disciples who would allow Jesus' victory over the Strongman to be fully effective in their lives. She knew it wouldn’t be easy for them because Hedonism – a direct consequence of Modernism – has infected everyone. The antidote is to respond to her urgent call to prayer, penance and reparation.

Terri Thomas 5/28/23 Terri Thomas 5/28/23

A Process of Offering Up Suffering

1. Enter into the Lord’s presence and ask for His insight and grace as you seek to understand and lean into your suffering for the sake of your own salvation and that of those whom God has placed in your care.

Terri Thomas 5/28/23 Terri Thomas 5/28/23

My Mother Was a Priest

We were all shocked and shattered when my brother announced that he wanted to become a priest. It was not just that he wanted to become a priest, but he wanted to become a Cistercian priest. That meant that once he left home he would never return. Naturally my mother was totally bereft.

Terri Thomas 5/19/23 Terri Thomas 5/19/23

Grief Attacks

My Son's Funeral

10 months & 19 days since you passed into eternal life on October 15, 2015.

I have learned that it is God's desire to gather together all of the suffering from grieving hearts and use it as a force for good. Here is a way that God has taught me to allow Him to use these "Grief Attacks" for a higher purpose and to make our loved one who has passed away happy that something good can come from our suffering.