November 1 is All Saints Day. Catholic grade school children are parading school halls dressed like their favorite saint. We Catholics get two days of celebration. Halloween to end out the spooky days of October, and All Saints Day to introduce November, a time for giving thanks. All Saints Day also reminds me—I’m no saint! […]
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Chances are you’ve heard the phrase, “the devil is in the details,” meaning that something that appears to be simple can end up being much more complicated and difficult than you expect as you work out the minutiae. I believe God is in the details too. Some people think God is a big picture guy, […]
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Beauty is therapy was a treatment premise of Dr. James Decker Munson, one of the founding doctors of the Northern Michigan Asylum in Traverse City, Michigan. He served from 1885 to 1924 and was a proponent of moral treatment of patients. Beauty is Therapy is also the title of a memoir by Earle E. Steele […]
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So nice to luxuriate in bed, no longer being shaken awake by an alarm clock and forced out of bed by a demanding schedule. Except for the demands of the dog needing to go out and eager to be fed, I could stay in bed all morning. But, I know, that is not good for […]
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Sometimes as I sit quietly in my church’s Adoration Chapel, God gives me a word. Something to reflect on for weeks. Most recently that word was frustration. I realize, like many others, I’ve been feeling frustrated. Frustrated with the continued surge of COVID despite having a vaccine available. Frustrated by its continued disruption of my […]
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Do you worry about people and events over which you have no control? Are you stressed out from trying to control all those things you worry about? Tell me, are worriers control freaks? Is there a connection between worry and control? In high school I had this crazy idea. The things I worried about never […]
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Like many others during the past year and a half, I’ve found myself obsessively searching out and reading bad news—doom-scrolling. It’s like watching a train-wreck, unable to turn away. Lately I’ve been asking myself—Is there a way to go from doom-scrolling to God-scrolling? What Is Doom-scrolling? Doom-scrolling or doom-surfing, is the tendency to continue to […]
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Honduras and other Central American countries have been in the news because of the number immigrants, including families with children, coming from there to the United States. Land of Deep Waters gives a glimpse of the situation in these countries which has created this influx of immigrants. Honduras Gangs are a huge problem in Honduras […]
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Check out my August book deals! Great summer reads – learn history through reading fiction. One, Buying Time, is set during the 1980s. The other, Land of Deep Waters, is set in Honduras, spanning thirty years from the 1970’s to 2000. August Book Deals – Buying Time Revisit the Cold War era when peaceful protesters […]
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Conspiracy theories are everywhere. They tell of dark evil cabals threatening human existence, plotting the overturn of society as we know it, putting profits over people and running the world based on their own designs. All of the talk about conspiracies got me thinking – does God have a conspiracy theory? And if so, what […]
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