During quarantine 2020, I decided to embark on a spiritual pilgrimage I’d been neglecting for a long time. I decided to finally do the thing, to do the ritual, that one priest had once told me I needed to do. And so I took the Blessed Mother’s hand and allowed her to lead me, because at least I knew that much from my Catholic faith–that her one job even now is to lead people to her Son, to truly see him with her eyes, to truly love him with her heart.

August is dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for this reason.

Here I begin reading a very special book of mine that honors God’s creation of woman in a way that perhaps is very timely, given what we are seeing play out on the world stage and have for decades.

Sometimes people need to see the truth, and not just be told it. If we’re going to change politics, we first have to change the culture. And to do that, we have to first overhaul our hearts. That is what this ‘DEAR JOHN,’ journey was for me.

Enjoy this first ten-minute reading of a dedication to my now-deceased mother, to Jesus’ mother, and to my dear wife as of June 29th.