The story of God calling out to Samuel when he’s sleeping can make us think of parenting a young child in the middle of the night.
Samuel keeps getting out of bed to come to Eli, who's fast asleep, to ask why he's
There is, of course, a saint for everything. But the saint who is patron of the January blues is a particularly awesome saint: St. Pio of Pietrelcina or, as many call him, St. Padre Pio. He was a mystic whose life held