Husband, Father, Writer, Beggar.
Husband, Father, Writer, Beggar.
By Nathan
1:00 AM. A quiet whimper from the vicinity of the bathroom catches my attention. I groggily get up and stumble through my pitch black bedroom. I get to the bathroom and turn on the light. My little girl looks up…
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Last night something got into my trash. Raccoon, possum. Some kind of critter decided to toss a bunch of my trash out on the ground. It immediately struck me… This is exactly what the devil does when I try to…
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A couple months ago, the garbage collectors forgot to pick up our trash. For three weeks. Waste Management bought out Advanced Disposal, and apparently they had some Covid related issues. I get it. But three week’s worth of garbage is a lot…
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I’ve had to do a lot of repair work on my truck lately. The engine was leaking coolant, and I traced it to a seal that needed to be tightened from another big repair I had done. I could write…
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Hey, ya’ll. I want to introduce my new blog, nathankrupa.com. Over the past couple of years, I’ve developed a real love of publishing my writing online. I’m currently running three other websites: theAlmoner.com, which talks about fundraising: fundraiserwiki.com, which provides…
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Before we can “go therefore and make disciples,” we must first BE disciples. We cannot give what we do not have or teach what we do not know. What does it mean to be a disciple? The Catechism sums it…
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The mission of the Catholic Church comes right from our Lord Jesus. “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to…
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15 years ago, I came to the brink of suicide. Thankfully, I stepped back from the edge. If you or anyone you know is on the edge, this is my story. You can make it just one more day.
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My son turned 8 a few weeks ago, and I got him the old movie The Pink Panther. I watched it ages ago, and I remembered thinking that it was really funny. Imagine my horror as I watched this movie…
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The story of Cain and Abel does not surprise me. As I sat down to write this post, I heard my 5-year-old son scream/crying in his bedroom. His 7-year-old big brother ran out into the living room with skip and…
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I'm a charismatic Catholic who lives on the outskirts of nowhere. God has given me a wife, a family, and a mission to feed the hungry. These are my stories.
