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Erin Franco

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Is joy worth the effort of trust?

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

My friend Lucy recently sent me a passage about trust from One Thousand Gifts, a beautiful book by Ann Voskamp….
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This week

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What’s touching my heart and going on in my life this week… I’m starting a one-day-a-week food co-op with another…
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The apostolate of friendship

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

The term “apostolate of friendship” really put into words some things I’ve learned and experienced about friendship over the past…
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So how’s your interior life?

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

If someone paid me a million dollars per week to not be snippy with my husband or lose my temper…
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Lately

Lately

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If you follow me on Facebook, you have probably seen all of these pictures and videos over the last couple…
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Priorities check.

Priorities check.

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

In prayerfully considered order, starting anew each morning, and keeping in touch with the promptings of the Holy Spirit throughout…
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I'm a south Louisiana girl, Catholic wife, writer, speaker, and mother of six. Since I started my blog way back in 2009, life has been a roller coaster of babies, plot twists and a plane crash or two. I've been chronicling things here as I've been learning to love and suffer and laugh and trust in the goodness of God in the ordinary and the extraordinary--with a little espresso and a lot of Divine Mercy. Read More…

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