Let Yourself Be Loved

For My Son on the Brink of Manhood

Jun 8

The Soundtrack of my Life

May 5

A Prayer of Surrender

Apr 16

Gage, the Miracle Dog (2 of 3 in the Goodbye Series)

Mar 28

The Night Watch

Mar 17

The Weeping Women

Mar 2

Rend Your Hearts

Feb 23

Breaking My Alabaster Jar

Nov 12, 2022

I Almost Forgot to Say Goodbye (1 of 3 in the Goodbye Series)

Aug 17, 2022

To my Daughter on her Wedding Day

Jul 12, 2022

Our Life, Our Sweetness & Our Hope

Jun 3, 2022

The Embrace of the Cross

Apr 15, 2022

So this is what grief looks like today

Mar 15, 2022

Blessing or Curse?

Mar 3, 2022

On the 12th Day of Christmas...

Jan 5, 2022

The Loss of Innocence

Dec 29, 2021

Hail and Blessed be the Hour and the Moment

Dec 1, 2021

Jealousy and Lies

Aug 30, 2021

When you Struggle with your Story

Aug 16, 2021

What I Learned from my Grandmother

Aug 1, 2021

Amazing Grace

Jul 21, 2021

The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Jun 26, 2021

The End of an Era

Jun 14, 2021

A Very Hard Thing

May 27, 2021

Right on Time

May 16, 2021

Come out of Hiding

Apr 29, 2021

When the Darkness is Doubly Dark

Oct 26, 2019

A Plea to the Sacred Heart of Jesus from a Mother's Broken Heart

Jun 28, 2019

The Invisible Boy

Jun 5, 2019

A Seat at the Table

May 9, 2019

Ugly Grief

Mar 27, 2019

Transformation

Mar 7, 2019

Now What????

Feb 20, 2019

The Last Breath

Feb 8, 2019

Happy Birthday, Sweet Baby

Jan 4, 2019

On the 3rd Day of Christmas...

Dec 27, 2018

Mary, Our Mother: An Invitation to Intimacy, Comfort, and Trust

Dec 12, 2018

Thanksgiving

Nov 29, 2018

Babies

Nov 10, 2018

When the Season Doesn't Change

Sep 27, 2018

Sacred Suffering

Sep 14, 2018

Missing You, Missing Me

Sep 7, 2018

Why It Was Worth It

Aug 1, 2018

The Big Lie

Jul 22, 2018

Empty Hallways

Jul 18, 2018

Brother Love

Jun 27, 2018

Meet our Monkey!!!

Jun 6, 2018

Walking with John Paul Raphael

May 29, 2018

What is this feeling????

May 23, 2018

In the Middle of the Mess

May 10, 2018

Elizabeth Leon

Jun 8
4 min

For My Son on the Brink of Manhood

My sweet Nathan graduated from high school today and heads off to the Air Force Academy later this month. I love this kid and am so proud...

Elizabeth Leon

May 5
9 min

The Soundtrack of my Life

After singing with him for 24 years, my conductor and friend, Dr. Erik Reid Jones, is stepping down as the artistic director of the...

Elizabeth Leon

Apr 16
4 min

A Prayer of Surrender

On Divine Mercy Sunday, I offer this reflection on learning to let yourself be loved in the painful, unexpected circumstances of life. To...

Gage, the Miracle Dog (2 of 3 in the Goodbye Series)

Elizabeth Leon

Mar 28
10 min

Gage, the Miracle Dog (2 of 3 in the Goodbye Series)

“And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and...

Elizabeth Leon

Mar 17
5 min

The Night Watch

"When we are before the Blessed Sacrament ... let us shut our eyes and open our hearts; and the good God will open his. We will go to...

Elizabeth Leon

Mar 2
3 min

The Weeping Women

Join me in a Lenten meditation on the 8th Station on the Way of the Cross. The invitation to bring our sorrow to Jesus is for every...

Elizabeth Leon

Feb 23
4 min

Rend Your Hearts

Lent invites us to rend our heart and return to the Lord. What if our hearts feel like they are already ripped open? Some encouragement...

Elizabeth Leon

Nov 12, 2022
5 min

Breaking My Alabaster Jar

I have to let go of what I thought my life would look like to receive the grace of how my life actually is. I have to let Him fill me in...

I Almost Forgot to Say Goodbye (1 of 3 in the Goodbye Series)

Elizabeth Leon

Aug 17, 2022
4 min

I Almost Forgot to Say Goodbye (1 of 3 in the Goodbye Series)

Sometimes as mothers, in all the doings, we forget that someday it will actually be done. "There is a time for everything, and a season...

Elizabeth Leon

Jul 12, 2022
7 min

To my Daughter on her Wedding Day

My oldest daughter, Maggie, married Zach Ness at St. Theresa Catholic Church on June 25, 2022. It was my honor to share these words at...

Elizabeth Leon

Jun 3, 2022
4 min

Our Life, Our Sweetness & Our Hope

When I sought Mary, she came flooding into my life and mothered me where I was most in need of comfort and care. I didn’t always know...

Elizabeth Leon

Apr 15, 2022
3 min

The Embrace of the Cross

Love is never lost. It is only held in the crossbeam of salvation, held in the space between the nails and eternity, waiting to be...

Elizabeth Leon

Mar 15, 2022
2 min

So this is what grief looks like today

One of the hardest things about being a thinker, speaker, and writer on grief is that I am in (and will always be in) grief. I may have...

Elizabeth Leon

Mar 3, 2022
6 min

Blessing or Curse?

I call heaven and earth to testify against you today! I've set life and death before you today: both blessings and curses. Choose life,...

Elizabeth Leon

Jan 5, 2022
4 min

On the 12th Day of Christmas...

This post originally appeared on the Heartbreak to Strength blog by Jodi Rosser. Our family has a long-standing tradition of singing the...

Elizabeth Leon

Dec 29, 2021
4 min

The Loss of Innocence

A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were...

Hail and Blessed be the Hour and the Moment

Elizabeth Leon

Dec 1, 2021
6 min

Hail and Blessed be the Hour and the Moment

Several years ago, the St. Andrew’s Novena found me in my driveway. I was rushing out to my van, as I do dozens of times a day, and...

Elizabeth Leon

Aug 30, 2021
6 min

Jealousy and Lies

When I am jealous, I separate myself from the goodness God is offering me. At the root of jealousy is always a lie. The green-eyed...

Elizabeth Leon

Aug 16, 2021
3 min

When you Struggle with your Story

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work among you will complete it by the day of Christ Jesus. - Philippians...

Elizabeth Leon

Aug 1, 2021
3 min

What I Learned from my Grandmother

Patricia Jane Patton Lawhon died a year ago today. She was a force of life to be reckoned with, by anyone's description. She left a...

Elizabeth Leon

Jul 21, 2021
7 min

Amazing Grace

"O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God...Who has known the mind of the Lord?" Romans 11:33-34 Almost four weeks...

Elizabeth Leon

Jun 26, 2021
3 min

The Gift that Keeps on Giving

We rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And...

Elizabeth Leon

Jun 14, 2021
4 min

The End of an Era

"Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love." - St. Therese of Lisieux On Tuesday I hopped in the...

Elizabeth Leon

May 27, 2021
5 min

A Very Hard Thing

"The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he...

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