Ordinary Time We are into the grey days of winter. The holidays are over and so, it appears, is the snow. Such are the vagaries of winters in Michigan. Days of beautiful snow covered ground or ice coated trees give way to grime and grey. Snow is covered with a coat of soot, or melts […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability There is a time between Christmas and Lent, a time called ordinary time. Time to get back to work after the holidays, back to the basics of everyday living. Meetings postponed during December are scheduled for January, one after the other after the other. There is a mad rush […]
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What is so ordinary about Ordinary Time? An ordinary day? Is there ever truly such a thing? Each moment of each day is fraught with so much potential and yet we fritter away those moments, unaware of all that surrounds us. There is nothing that is ordinary in God’s eye. All of creation is touched […]
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A voice whispers late in the night, “You are my beloved child, in you I am well pleased.” Words God spoke to his Son thousands of years ago. Words God continues to speak to each of us if we but have ears to hear. With the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord, the Christmas […]
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Little sparrow, you’ve come to play on my window sill. Despite the cold, dead look of winter, life goes on. Perky sparrow, your chirps and darting flight remind me of this. Life hides under the snow, deep in the frozen earth. Life goes on, even when my loved ones have died and left me. Life […]
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New Year’s has come and gone and with it went my motivation. It didn’t help that I came down with some type of intestinal bug the night of January 2, robbing me of two days of productivity. The only benefit of such a bug is that it can help you shed some of those holiday […]
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Here they come again–memories of the promise that wasn’t kept, memories resurfacing when I least expect them, when I think I’ve finally dealt with the hurt. Here they come, those feelings I thought I had dealt with, feelings that caused me so much trouble earlier, tempting me with revenge, with helplessness, with despair. Here they […]
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From whence comes this recurring fear–this crippling, paralyzing fear–catching me unaware? Past experiences remind me I have reason to fear. Thus I never permit myself to be too happy; eventually fear will pull me, push me from rosy heights. Because of the past, I fear the future, always expecting disaster to be lurking around the […]
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The alcoholic who lives only to drink, the workaholic who lives only to work–lives defined by what each does, not by who each is. The pleasure-seeker lives only for the moment with no thought of others or for the consequences of his actions. The “momaholic” lives only for her children–or so she says–but she uses […]
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The tree is down, decorations are stored–all that’s left of Christmas are the memories, both good and not so good. Now comes the “letdown.” Joy over that which went well dissipates, minor disappointments remain to mar my peace. Just plain tiredness catches up with me. Christmas is over–almost. I’m caught in the limbo between Christmas […]
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