Author Archives: Carrie Bigley

Okay, so here’s the deal…I’ve been on and off the blog page five times today. I have this conviction on my heart to blog today but I have no idea what I should say. So I’ll talk about Focus. As I was typing in the title to this blog thinking about all the things I could write about I got a good chuckle from the word I was typing. Focus, I’m having issues with that right now, just in general not being able to focus on things happening right in front of me, or day dreaming about random other things.

It’s almost Christmas and we are heading home to visit our friends and family. I must say this trip home is very exciting and very nerve racking at the same time. You see home is most likely one of our biggest mission fields. I think we have it so easy sometimes. We minister to strangers, to people we pass on the street, most of the time we don’t even know their names. But at home we know know names, we know lives, the people we meet are people we have known for years, if not our whole lives. Now

Wow what a crazy week! It’s so hard for me to even collect my thoughts right now, for multiply reasons. First off because there were so many incredible experiences from our Mexico trip I don’t even know where to begin, and second off because I know my brothers and sisters will be sharing about Mexico as well. But I guess today I will share with our celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Most of you probably thought of the Mexican people right away when I said that name. They love her and she loves

Recently I was asked to do something I didn’t want to do from God.  The lesson I learned was incredible.  We met Kris last Wednesday, he is 19 and has terminal cancer.  His story is amazing; he was recently baptized and received the first communion.  We prayed with him and learned his story.  Friday night you went to visit again, in three days he had started a collection of bracelets of WWJD’s and bible verses and saints, but missing from his wrist was the popular rope rosary.  I have one

Hey so here’s a fun little story for you…. I Love Pomegranates. I usually have them in smoothies and until recently I had never had them in actually fruit form, ok that doesn’t sound right, I mean I never had the fruit. I’ve always had it in things. But a friend of mine recently opened my eyes to the lovely fruit, and had me try it in its true form. So I bought some last week at the store. I knew that all you could eat from the fruit was the seeds and when I got home I looked up the proper

Okay so let me start by saying if you haven’t read Captivating, you should, very soon. Thanks Kelly for getting me hooked on this book! Okay so I was swept up in this book from the moment I picked it up. You see deep down inside I struggle with myself image. The girls at my house can tell you there are days I change my clothes five times before I’m happy with what I see in the mirror. I struggle with the idea that I am good enough to be loved, or desired. I often times struggle with feeling

This past week the homily from Sunday Life Teen Mass at St. Tim’s has really been stuck on my heart. Now normally homilies go in one ear and out the other. I hate to admit that but it’s true I might be touched at the moment of the homily but soon after mass I completely forget what the idea of the homily was even about. Anyways I was strangely drawn too this particular homily. The gospel was all about a blind man approaching Jesus and asking to be healed and given his sight back. Well during

So I was recently contemplating life and how I got here. Okay that’s partially true, I know how I got here, (in a nut shell, God wanted me here so he called I said ‘Yes’ and now I’m here) But thats not what i meant, i was thinking about High School in general, where I was When i was in high school and where i wanted to go, the plans I had made the accomplishments i wanted to have in life. So in HS i was a drama geek, from day one of stepping onto the school property i knew the stage was where i

So we have finally arrived!!! We are settling in to our mission houses here in Mesa, Arizona! Let me start by praising the Lord for the blessings of these houses. They are more then any of us expected and we are truly blessed to be living here. We arrived here on Friday to be greeted by the Life Teen staff who helped us throw our stuff into our houses and then off to Tepeyac  for St. Tim’s 46 retreat. CRAZY!!! What an amazing way to start our mission here in Mesa. Let me tell you i was dragging

Wow i can’t believe it’s almost time to go to Mesa! We have been together for a little over a month now, all of us. It’s kind of sad that I will soon be leaving my extended family as we all go our separate ways to spread the word. I guess in all it’s a good thing, Jesus does ask us to “Go”  but my humanness is telling me I should be sad and trying to hold on to this for as long as possible. I’m still finding it difficult to let God take the wheel and just let go of it myself, to put it all in his