Joy In The Journey

  We started Joy in the Journey and Heart's Rosary  Company 8 years ago. These pictures are from June 2018 after filing our paperwork. We had mission with Joy in the Journey to share Jesus and His love and hope along our journey and with Hearts Rosary to share our love for Jesus and the Blessed Mother with prayers and handmade rosaries. For us making rosaries is more than a craft, it's a labor of love, devotion and deep faith. We also through about a newsletter at the time, but it was new and not the time to do one. A few years later we did one for a short time, but we didn't stick with it and persevere as we should have. We have come to understand that it wasn't the right time. Over the years there have been many moments that have touched our lives in ways that we could not have possibly imagined,. A few months ago we started talking about our mission, our spiritual and prayer life and the many blessings that have come not only from the rosaries we have made but ...

  We just finished our first newsletter and are excited to share an invitation to join us on a weekly journey of faith.   We wrote this newsletter to share our faith, hope, hearts, and our trust in the Lord and His unfailing goodness and grace, even when we haven't been able to see it at the time. Maybe its something that resonates with you, maybe it not. Either way it's our hope and our prayer, that sharing the lives of the Saints, prayers, reflections and stories is a reminder of how God's goodness and grace is all around us always, in people, places, nature, in the quiet and in the chaos and difficult times. And every day we continue to be reminded at how present He is in every circumstance bringing hope, joy, peace, comfort, conviction and sweet remembrances, often in unexpected places along our journey. This link Hearts Rosary Newsletter  will bring you right to the newsletter. If want to receive future newsletters in your inbox, you can subscribe on the websit...

  I was thinking back to when I was a kid in my parents kitchen and the many different kinds of foods that to me were just the fixings for another meal, but as I got older learned that was not the case for many of my friends.   When I was a kid, after it rained my mom would go out in the yard and look for snails, and at least one a week she would to out and forage chicory and dandelion greens.  I recall one afternoon some friends and I were playing outside in the yard and my mom came out and she was picking chicory and dandelion greens and putting them in the fold of her apron as she bent over and pull the greens from the ground. My friends were so curious, with wide eyes they asked what is your mom doing? I responded nonchalantly, getting stuff for making salad.  That was common place in our Italian kitchen, no so much for my friends. But my young friends who were open and adventurous loved whatever my mom and dad served at our table.  I was never a big fa...