Try though we might to have a yard of lush, green grass, this keeps eluding us. We distribute grass seed throughout the lawn only to have them picked up by passing birds. We try to patch brown spots left by our dog to no avail. What grass we do have, gets swallowed up by creeping […]
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Today is the feast day of Peter and Paul. Why tie two such strong men together in one day? Is there room enough for two? These strong men, pillars, founders of the early church, at time in conflict, at time at odds as strong men inevitably are, it’s to be expected that they would clash. […]
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Sometimes I dream of escaping my problems and my humdrum life, of traveling to faraway places–spending a summer in Paris or sunning for a week on the Riviera, cruising the Mediterranean or island-hopping in Greece. I imagine sailing down the Nile or the Amazon into the interiors of the continents. I imagine visits to the […]
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Today is my birthday. It isn’t a landmark one with a 0 or 5 at the end. There hardly seems to be a reason to celebrate this one. After you reach a certain age, it seems redundant to celebrate your birthday every year. The years slide by so quickly, it seems more appropriate to only […]
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There was a time when all I remembered from my childhood was negative. I was dealing with healing past hurts and this colored my memories. Now that I’m beyond that I find myself focusing more on the positive memories. Certainly there have been good days and bad days in my life, positive experiences and negative […]
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Another spring gone by. Trees now wear a full headdress of leaves. It has been safe to plant vegetables and flowers for weeks now, as the fear of a debilitating frost is gone. Pools are open and ready to welcome swimmers of all ages. Life is good. The calendar marks this day as a boundary […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Hour after hour. Around in circles on the school parking lot, I remember running alongside my children, supporting their bikes lest they topple, picking them up when they fell, putting them back on again. Hour after hour, I taught and coached them. Summer after summer. Stopping and starting. Slowing […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Our Father who art in heaven takes on a whole different meaning once your earthly father is gone. No one to call on Father’s Day, to buy tacky ties for or a bottle of his favorite booze. No more wondering what to get someone who has everything. Not that […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability William Blake spoke of seeing the world in a grain of sand. If that is possible, it is no less possible to see the world in a kernel of wheat. A kernel of wheat is wondrous, lovely to behold. So simple and yet so complex. A kernel of wheat […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability “Tony, Tony, come around, something’s lost and must be found.” Desperation, superstitious mumbo jumbo, I once thought about praying to St. Anthony in order to find lost items, until I was given a copy of the formal prayer. The actual prayer is a prayer of abandonment to God’s will. […]
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