Mary Caroline Whims is a writer exploring the intersection of faith and culture.
What I’ve been thinking…
Worthy of good things
I am worthy of good things. I accept myself for who I am. I deserve to be kind to myself. It was January of 2022. I sat cross-legged on the floor of my room, headphones on, listening to a calm female voice repeating positive affirmations. “Listen to these, and then repeat them as you feel…
The Madonna in my bedroom
About a year ago, I put up a picture of Mary in my room. It’s a print of Botticelli’s “Mary with the Child and Singing Angels.” In the image, the young mother gazes at the viewer with a gentle tilt of her head. The smooth outlines of her cheeks reveal her youth, but there’s dignity…
On meat cutters and the Incarnation
When I saw the blood pouring from my right index finger, I wasn’t surprised. It had been another early morning at the deli where I worked slicing meat on my summers home from college. I’d awoken after a poor night of sleep, stretched, and immediately thought: I’m going to cut myself at work today. It…
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
— C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Mary Caroline Whims 