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Can You Fast Forward Your Spiritual Development?

By Patty Kogutek | 05/15/2026

Can a well-meaning religion, filled with rites, rituals and rules hinder your spiritual development? My “long-suffering spiritual development” evolved through the years weaving through religion. As a dedicated Catholic, I immersed myself in religious practices, going to daily mass, reciting…

Spiritual Awareness Dawns in the Vatican

By Patty Kogutek | 05/15/2026

Spiritual Awareness Dawns in the Vatican Is there a spiritual development resonating in the Catholic Church? I certainly hope and pray. The Wall Street Journal, July 29th, issued a “News Alert” that the “Pope Signals Openness to Gay Priests.” I found…

Wise Men Still Seek Him

By Patty Kogutek | 12/30/2019

As we are busy packing up the decorations, taking down the tree, and wrapping the figurines from the crèche scene, we cannot lose sight of the holy day that we haven’t even celebrated yet. That is the feast of the…

You Can Take It With You…

By Patty Kogutek | 12/23/2019

You CAN take it with you, and you SHOULD take it with you! I’m talking about all the love, peace and joy that you experienced over this holiday season. Take it with you into this upcoming New Year. Think of all…

Christmas Note to Self

By Patty Kogutek | 12/16/2019

Christmas Note to Self The celebration of Christmas gives us that reflective moment to consider our own birth and our own “reason” to be here. Do you know your earthly “mission?” “What’s my purpose in life?” I asked the void. “What…

Be That Gift

By Patty Kogutek | 12/09/2019

This Christmas season brings many traditions.  One of our seasonal traditions is the giving of material gifts, representing the gift of love that we are all called to partake of. Yes, believe it or not we are all gifts to…

Let the Season Begin

By Patty Kogutek | 12/02/2019

We are now officially in the “Christmas Season” bringing with it the joys, stresses, anxieties, anticipations and disappointments that can come with any overinflated, long awaited “buildup”. Commercially, we only have a few short weeks to prepare for this upcoming holiday.…

Prayers for Thanksgiving Day

By Patty Kogutek | 11/23/2019

The coming weeks are filled with traditions that bind us together as a family, friends, neighborhood and/ or people “walking each other home”. Many of these traditions, are created around the dinner table sharing memories, laughs and love while enjoying…

Be Still And Give Thanks!

By Patty Kogutek | 11/18/2019

Gratitude, being the lynchpin for a happy life, is the official celebration kicking off this holiday season. We should take a page out of the Pilgrims playbook. They understood the power of gratitude. If the only prayer you said in…

We Can Only Imagine!

By Patty Kogutek | 11/09/2019

I’ve never looked to Dennis the Menace for spiritual inspiration, but in this cartoon, he nails it! Dennis is with his friend looking up at the starry night sky, pointing upward he ponders, “If heaven is that pretty on the…

Get the Most Out of Your Day

By Patty Kogutek | 11/04/2019

“This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use, as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of…

Finding the Passion in Life

By Patty Kogutek | 10/28/2019

“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Yes, we need faith and enthusiasm to get the most out of this journey called life.  We are here to delight in the…