Women at the Tomb

04/05/2025

Today marks one year since I was admitted to the hospital with an unknown illness, which we found out was cancer on June 6. This last year has been a journey of tremendous growth in self- knowledge in both a spiritual and physical way. I am so thankful for all those who walk with me through this wild ride of ups and downs. Your prayers, advice, and generosity have made it a year of great blessing. I start radiation on April 15th (15 treatments since the tumor is close to my stomach and colon). Please continue to pray for a clean radiation with minimal side effects. I know your prayers are heard--I am a living testimony to the power of prayer!

03/23/2025

03/16/2025

What makes mountains an ideal place to pray? They have less immediate distractions, yet you can see far in the distance. You can contemplate the tiny blade of grass in front of you, the village beyond the hill, the horizon where the sky meets the Earth. You can feel the cool breeze of the Holy Spirit engulf you and recognize God‘s presence in the sitting. Our senses are able to interact with the spiritual more easily, giving us a chance to slow down and be thankful for all we have. Where is the holy mountain where you pray?

03/11/2025

It’s not too late to sign your high school student up for this amazing retreat on healing! I’m so excited to be co-leading the event with the Holy Redeemer campus of the Columbia River Catholic community. We’d love to have everyone registered by Sunday so we have a headcount for food. 

High School Retreat - March 2025

03/09/2025

While my book is at the editor I have a few tasks to achieve. One of them is building a Launch Team for my book. This team (which must consist of at least 100 people) promises four tasks:

1. They will read the book in advance in a pdf format (and not share it with others).

2. They will purchase a book from Amazon when it comes out (probably about $10-$15),

3. They will write a review on Amazon

4. They will post about reading the book on social media (if they have it).

If this sounds like something you would be willing to do, please sign up here https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E49A5AD2BAAFF2-55612008-awoman

Thank you so much for considering being a vital part of getting the message of hope amid cancer out to the world.

In Christ,

Jamie

Thank you for joining my A Woman at the Tomb Launch Team! By committing to this team you are: 1. Willing to read an advanced pdf copy of my book (and not share it with others), 2. Purchase a book once it comes out on Amazon, 3. Write a review on Amazon, and 4. If you have social media, post on socia...

02/28/2025

Off to the Editor!

02/22/2025

Sometimes we don’t feel prepared for what God is asking us to do, maybe we think we are missing essential skills or tools to “get the job done.” But, creativity (which is a gift from God) allows us to find solutions as long as we don’t allow anxiety to paralyze us from moving forward.

02/20/2025

As part of my morning prayer each day, I pray a consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The last two lines, “let me be a victim in the fire of your divine love,” has always stood out to me in a powerful way. I’ve often pondered, “what does it mean to be a victim in the fire of your divine love?” Just recently my treatment plan pivoted for my cancer, and now instead of surgery, I am going to be undergoing radiation. A couple weeks ago, one of the readings at Mass was from Malachi, focusing on the refiner’s fire—a passage that I’ve often also pondered—discussing impurities being burned away, so that only what is holy remains. And the next weekend at Mass, we had the reading from Isaiah where hot coals were placed on Isaiah‘s lips, which burned away impurities and allowed him to preach God to others. I realized on February 7, as I was doing my morning prayer, that the radiation that I will receive will be a burning away of the tumor, and I become a victim of God‘s divine love in a literal fire inside of my body. Galatians 2:19 reminded me that since I gave my cross to Christ on Calvary, I surrendered my cancer to him, that I’m able to fully live for Christ in the flesh through the resurrection. That’s where resurrected living begins, when we surrender whatever cross we carry to Christ on Calvary. What cross are you carrying? Are you ready to surrender it, to become a victim in the fire of His divine love, and to start living a resurrected life in the flesh?

02/19/2025

In today’s Gospel after the man is healed of blindness, Jesus directs him not to go to the village, but to go home. It’s only right that his family has the first opportunity to see the miraculous gift that was bestowed upon him. It is in family and in relationship that how Christ heals us can have the biggest impact on others. Do you share the ways that God is healing and working in you with your family? Do you share your faith at the dinner table, or on family vacations, or discuss the homily after Mass? “Thus the little domestic Church, like the greater Church, needs to be constantly and intensely evangelized: hence its duty regarding permanent education in the faith…the family, like the Church, ought to be a place where the Gospel is transmitted and from which the Gospel radiates…the future of evangelization depends in great part on the Church of the home” (The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World #51-52).