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A New Approach to My Lenten Promise //
How to Shop Ethically on a College Budget
Is it Really Our Job to “Protect Men” Through Modesty?
A Knowledge that Drives Away Fear, Shame & Doubt
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This weekend the Father taught me the art of doing nothing through the heart of my friend @madimyerscook ... Doing nothing is something I’m absolutely terrible at. He taught me about the joys of going to bed by 9:30 so that I can wake up earlier to spend time with Him. He showed me what it looks like to truly honor the Sabbath and trust that He will help me get things done. ⠀ ⠀ For the first time in a long time I let the Father pour into me. I let myself be loved by Him and was able to rest in all the unknowns and uncertainties about my future.⠀ ⠀ Sometimes the Lord calls us to do nothing - and that can be wayy harder than giving up 20 things for Lent (at least it is for me). Allow yourself to do nothing with the Lord sometime this week. Whether you get up an hour earlier to sit with Him, go on a walk/run without music, go outside and sit in the sun, or whatever comes into your head. (Watching tv doesn’t count as nothing haha) Find time this first full week of Lent to sit and let the Father pour Himself into you. Give Him the time to speak and see the miracles He can work in even 30 minutes if you just give Him the time. Spend time doing nothing - I promise it will be one of your new favorite things to do!

Lent is 2 days away and y’all I am not prepared - feasting on Fat Tuesday is definitely something I’m prepared for but wow I am not ready for lent. It can be really easy to look at what other people are doing for lent and just jump on the train of what they’re doing - people are getting off Instagram for lent so I will, my sister is doing no chocolate so I’ll do no chocolate - but god is asking a little more of us this year for lent. So here are some tips to really help you pray through what God wants from you this lent/how he desires you to grow. ⠀ ⠀ 1) the church says lent is a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving so what are ways you can better your prayer life, fast, and give of yourself. ⠀ ⠀ 2) what is distracting you from your relationship with god right now? Are you staying up late which makes you too tired to wake up early to pray - maybe your Lenten promise can be going to bed by 11:30. Are you a binge-watcher - give up the during the week. Do you spend more than 3-4 hours on your phone a day - limit your phone usage. ⠀ ⠀ 3) think about something extra that you really love but isn’t necessary for you life. Do you love Starbucks coffee? Maybe consider giving that up so that every time you think about getting Starbucks you’re reminded of the sacrifice you’re making. Fasting is meant to be a reminder of Jesus’ sacrifice for us - so it should be something you love so when you want it it’s actually a sacrifice that reminds you heaven is more important than the things of this world. ⠀ ⠀ 4) do you have an opportunity to do more charity work? Does your church or school offer homeless food runs, visiting the elderly, or something else so that you can give of yourself during this time of almsgiving. ⠀ ⠀ 5) what is a vice that you are struggling with right now? Are you lazy, undisciplined in prayer, struggling with lust, ect. Find out the opposing virtue to the vice you are struggling with and prayer through how you can replace that vice with greater virtue! ⠀ ⠀ 6) remember that lent isn’t about torturing yourself or just giving something up for 40 days and then falling back into it - Lent is a time of preparation and transformation. It’s a time of fasting, pra

Still not over how incredible this day was. When @beaheartdesign first posted about hosting a “Baby Shower for Mary” I immediately texted my sister and my mom about how we had to participate in this. I’ve always had a heart for the pro-life movement - specifically for taking the values of the pro-life movement and really living them out. ⠀ ⠀ With the March for Life happening all over the United States - the pro-life movement is at it’s peak as people go back to their homes fired up by seeing the 10s of thousands of people at the March. So what do we do with this passion? How do we take this fire from marching and translate it into action? ⠀ ⠀ One option is taking a group of people and PEACEFULLY praying outside planned parenthood. However, as a person from Southern California the concept of praying outside of planned parenthoods is incredibly taboo to me. So what else can we do? ⠀ ⠀ 🌟Google pro-life shelters in your city and volunteer to babysit for free so that mothers can afford to go to class or work. ⠀ ⠀ 🌟Make donations of money or items to the shelters that take women in (you can even host a party to get more donations!)⠀ ⠀ 🌟 Really focus on the language you use when speaking to other women about pregnancy, children, and family life. So often today we speak about it solely in terms of being a burden or a hardship placed upon women creating a culture that makes people afraid to give birth. ⠀ ⠀ 🌟 Educate yourself one the realities of abortion so that when people inevitably disagree with you, you have an educated opinion on why abortion is inherently wrong⠀ ⠀ 🌟 Look inward and recognize the parts of yourself that are not fully pro- all life. Being pro-life is more than just being anti-abortion and we all have aspects of ourselves where we fail to recognize the inherent dignity of every human person. Whether it be racism (conscious and subconscious), the way we speak about those who have different beliefs than us, or just how we treat the people who are an inconvenience to us affect the overall culture of life our society has. ⠀ ⠀ The pro-life movement won’t win when the laws are changed. It will win when we create a culture that recognize the inherent dig

Y’all I’ve been so so excited to share this with you - this years @blessedisshe__ Lenten Journal is so beautiful. When I first opened it my sister and I literally gasped at its perfection. Here is the deal - I really really struggle with fortitude in prayer. No matter how I schedule it into my day I’m always so inconsistent. I’ve been using the @blessedisshe__ Lenten journal since the first year it came out and guys I wouldn’t be recommending it if it hadn’t changed my life first. For the first time Lent finished and I didn’t feel guilty about not doing enough. Even with missing a day or two this journal has brought so much consistency, guidance, and structure to my incredibly all over the place personality. (Quick shot over to me frantically running around this morning getting these photos and spilling my coffee). If you’ve got a bible study or you want to find a way to incorporate prayer into your group of friends, or you just want to do it yourself I couldn’t recommend it more. And use my code: lizzy10 for 10% off!! Get shopping

I keep thinking of what Momma Mary must be going through today - achy, swollen feet, searing pain in her pelvic bone, sitting on top of a donkey for hours, and who know when her contractions started. And yet, she knew the life inside her would change everything. The light of the world is coming and He is worth every single growing pain. As soon as I took this photo of my cousin (due within the next 3 days) my mind was immediately reminded of Our Lady of Guadalupe (not just because of her Latin American heritage). All life is a gift - my cousin has the incredible gift of participating in creation with God our Father just as Mary did, at the exact same time Mary did. ✨ Maybe our Advent season wasn’t as holy or as spiritually active as we wished it was but that doesn’t matter. Whether you prayed every single day or it was a time of spiritual dryness - the light of the world is coming for you tomorrow. He’s coming to you with humility, he’s coming to you in vulnerability as a baby in need of a mom and dad to care for and love him. Our job tomorrow is simply to receive the gift of life He is giving us. Tomorrow focus on having a spirit of receptivity even in the busyness of family parties, presents, and meal preparation - be receptive to the amazing light and grace He wants to pour out on us tomorrow.

Y’all I can’t even begin to express how excited I am for one of my new and good friends @carolineroseowens today!! A little over a month ago Caroline reached out to me with an idea - a podcast dedicated to bringing together extraordinary women to tell their stories. We talked a lot about the struggles of finding your place in a Catholic community filled with so many incredible and creative people. And, when she spoke about her idea for SHE BELIEVED I felt the Holy Spirit calling me to support this journey in anyway I could because this podcast is a victory for God. Make sure to give her a follow and find the podcast on Apple Podcast and Spotify - and make sure to check me out in episode 3 as we talk about living modestly in the modern world!!! #carolineroseowens #shebelievedpodcast

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This weekend the Father taught me the art of doing nothing through the heart of my friend @madimyerscook ... Doing nothing is something I’m absolutely terrible at. He taught me about the joys of going to bed by 9:30 so that I can wake up earlier to spend time with Him. He showed me what it looks like to truly honor the Sabbath and trust that He will help me get things done. ⠀ ⠀ For the first time in a long time I let the Father pour into me. I let myself be loved by Him and was able to rest in all the unknowns and uncertainties about my future.⠀ ⠀ Sometimes the Lord calls us to do nothing - and that can be wayy harder than giving up 20 things for Lent (at least it is for me). Allow yourself to do nothing with the Lord sometime this week. Whether you get up an hour earlier to sit with Him, go on a walk/run without music, go outside and sit in the sun, or whatever comes into your head. (Watching tv doesn’t count as nothing haha) Find time this first full week of Lent to sit and let the Father pour Himself into you. Give Him the time to speak and see the miracles He can work in even 30 minutes if you just give Him the time. Spend time doing nothing - I promise it will be one of your new favorite things to do!

Lent is 2 days away and y’all I am not prepared - feasting on Fat Tuesday is definitely something I’m prepared for but wow I am not ready for lent. It can be really easy to look at what other people are doing for lent and just jump on the train of what they’re doing - people are getting off Instagram for lent so I will, my sister is doing no chocolate so I’ll do no chocolate - but god is asking a little more of us this year for lent. So here are some tips to really help you pray through what God wants from you this lent/how he desires you to grow. ⠀ ⠀ 1) the church says lent is a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving so what are ways you can better your prayer life, fast, and give of yourself. ⠀ ⠀ 2) what is distracting you from your relationship with god right now? Are you staying up late which makes you too tired to wake up early to pray - maybe your Lenten promise can be going to bed by 11:30. Are you a binge-watcher - give up the during the week. Do you spend more than 3-4 hours on your phone a day - limit your phone usage. ⠀ ⠀ 3) think about something extra that you really love but isn’t necessary for you life. Do you love Starbucks coffee? Maybe consider giving that up so that every time you think about getting Starbucks you’re reminded of the sacrifice you’re making. Fasting is meant to be a reminder of Jesus’ sacrifice for us - so it should be something you love so when you want it it’s actually a sacrifice that reminds you heaven is more important than the things of this world. ⠀ ⠀ 4) do you have an opportunity to do more charity work? Does your church or school offer homeless food runs, visiting the elderly, or something else so that you can give of yourself during this time of almsgiving. ⠀ ⠀ 5) what is a vice that you are struggling with right now? Are you lazy, undisciplined in prayer, struggling with lust, ect. Find out the opposing virtue to the vice you are struggling with and prayer through how you can replace that vice with greater virtue! ⠀ ⠀ 6) remember that lent isn’t about torturing yourself or just giving something up for 40 days and then falling back into it - Lent is a time of preparation and transformation. It’s a time of fasting, pra

Still not over how incredible this day was. When @beaheartdesign first posted about hosting a “Baby Shower for Mary” I immediately texted my sister and my mom about how we had to participate in this. I’ve always had a heart for the pro-life movement - specifically for taking the values of the pro-life movement and really living them out. ⠀ ⠀ With the March for Life happening all over the United States - the pro-life movement is at it’s peak as people go back to their homes fired up by seeing the 10s of thousands of people at the March. So what do we do with this passion? How do we take this fire from marching and translate it into action? ⠀ ⠀ One option is taking a group of people and PEACEFULLY praying outside planned parenthood. However, as a person from Southern California the concept of praying outside of planned parenthoods is incredibly taboo to me. So what else can we do? ⠀ ⠀ 🌟Google pro-life shelters in your city and volunteer to babysit for free so that mothers can afford to go to class or work. ⠀ ⠀ 🌟Make donations of money or items to the shelters that take women in (you can even host a party to get more donations!)⠀ ⠀ 🌟 Really focus on the language you use when speaking to other women about pregnancy, children, and family life. So often today we speak about it solely in terms of being a burden or a hardship placed upon women creating a culture that makes people afraid to give birth. ⠀ ⠀ 🌟 Educate yourself one the realities of abortion so that when people inevitably disagree with you, you have an educated opinion on why abortion is inherently wrong⠀ ⠀ 🌟 Look inward and recognize the parts of yourself that are not fully pro- all life. Being pro-life is more than just being anti-abortion and we all have aspects of ourselves where we fail to recognize the inherent dignity of every human person. Whether it be racism (conscious and subconscious), the way we speak about those who have different beliefs than us, or just how we treat the people who are an inconvenience to us affect the overall culture of life our society has. ⠀ ⠀ The pro-life movement won’t win when the laws are changed. It will win when we create a culture that recognize the inherent dig

Y’all I’ve been so so excited to share this with you - this years @blessedisshe__ Lenten Journal is so beautiful. When I first opened it my sister and I literally gasped at its perfection. Here is the deal - I really really struggle with fortitude in prayer. No matter how I schedule it into my day I’m always so inconsistent. I’ve been using the @blessedisshe__ Lenten journal since the first year it came out and guys I wouldn’t be recommending it if it hadn’t changed my life first. For the first time Lent finished and I didn’t feel guilty about not doing enough. Even with missing a day or two this journal has brought so much consistency, guidance, and structure to my incredibly all over the place personality. (Quick shot over to me frantically running around this morning getting these photos and spilling my coffee). If you’ve got a bible study or you want to find a way to incorporate prayer into your group of friends, or you just want to do it yourself I couldn’t recommend it more. And use my code: lizzy10 for 10% off!! Get shopping

I keep thinking of what Momma Mary must be going through today - achy, swollen feet, searing pain in her pelvic bone, sitting on top of a donkey for hours, and who know when her contractions started. And yet, she knew the life inside her would change everything. The light of the world is coming and He is worth every single growing pain. As soon as I took this photo of my cousin (due within the next 3 days) my mind was immediately reminded of Our Lady of Guadalupe (not just because of her Latin American heritage). All life is a gift - my cousin has the incredible gift of participating in creation with God our Father just as Mary did, at the exact same time Mary did. ✨ Maybe our Advent season wasn’t as holy or as spiritually active as we wished it was but that doesn’t matter. Whether you prayed every single day or it was a time of spiritual dryness - the light of the world is coming for you tomorrow. He’s coming to you with humility, he’s coming to you in vulnerability as a baby in need of a mom and dad to care for and love him. Our job tomorrow is simply to receive the gift of life He is giving us. Tomorrow focus on having a spirit of receptivity even in the busyness of family parties, presents, and meal preparation - be receptive to the amazing light and grace He wants to pour out on us tomorrow.

Y’all I can’t even begin to express how excited I am for one of my new and good friends @carolineroseowens today!! A little over a month ago Caroline reached out to me with an idea - a podcast dedicated to bringing together extraordinary women to tell their stories. We talked a lot about the struggles of finding your place in a Catholic community filled with so many incredible and creative people. And, when she spoke about her idea for SHE BELIEVED I felt the Holy Spirit calling me to support this journey in anyway I could because this podcast is a victory for God. Make sure to give her a follow and find the podcast on Apple Podcast and Spotify - and make sure to check me out in episode 3 as we talk about living modestly in the modern world!!! #carolineroseowens #shebelievedpodcast