Sunday Snippets 2/6/2011

Hello all! Can't believe it's February already. Here are my Sunday Snippets-Catholic Carnival brought to you by RAnn of This That and The Other Thing. 

My kind of conversion story

I stumbled on this conversion story and the woman uses photos and pictures to illustrate her story. It is very honest, raw and disturbing in some places. I can relate to how she saw some Christians early on before her conversion and how very not Christlike they were with their hateful signs and hypocrisy.
That kind of thing kept me at a distance for a while too. So do check it out. It is a harrowing journey with a happy ending.
Woman at the well.

Looking into the eyes of my Lord

Here's my new avatar. A while back when I started this blog I shared my story of the first time I went to Eucharistic Adoration, I saw an image of Jesus with the crown of thorns in the Host. I was perplexed by it and thought at first it was etched into the glass of the luna which is the flat circular case that holds the host. But when I asked my husband about it he said he didn't see anything and it has forever stuck with me.
I asked the Holy Spirit to help me recreate what I saw and I attempted to draw it. It is just a pencil drawing and didn't take long to draw it. I've drawn better but I've also drawn worse.
The other day I saw a recent study of the Shroud of Turin and where a digital artist working with scientists, took the image on the shroud and turned it...read more