Ordinary Time – Season of Stability It seems that craft and craftsmen/women have gone out of style. They finish a poor second to art and artists. We don’t refer to the afghans we make or other hand-crafted articles as simply crafts any more but as works of art, crafts appearing second class to art. The […]
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Feast Day of Our Lady of Sorrows, September 15 With each relationship you add to your life, each child, grandchild, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, you add joy, but you also add the potential for sorrow. You rejoice when a child is born, but that is just the beginning. With each new step, each word spoken, they […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Don’t believe everything you see. Appearances can be deceiving. There are the ones who exude grace and charm. They maneuver life’s highways with an aura of peace. Nothing, no crisis, no loss, seems to shake them for too long. There are the ones for whom life is a constant […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Life would never be the same, or so many insisted after 9/11. We walked around in a daze for weeks feeling our existence as a nation had been threatened, our sense of security taken away. We kept wondering, when would the other shoe drop? Where would the next terrorist […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Another day at the grindstone. A boring job, a boring routine. I can’t help but wonder … Does my life have meaning? Will I be remembered when I’m gone . . . and for what? Will the fact that I once walked the face of the earth make a […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability (Author’s note – I wrote this reflection the year following 9/11. As I hunted down these pests, I found myself comparing them to terrorist cells. Just as it took months of being on guard against another infestation, I figured it would takes months of work to clear these groups […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Why can’t I just let Sunday be Sunday? A day of rest and relaxation. A day of prayer dedicated to God. A day with no agenda. It’s not that I don’t have plenty to do to fill the day. I resist the urge to bring work home. I resist […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Labor Day weekend has arrived. Time for the last splurge of summer. While summer officially lasts until September 22, for many this is considered the unofficial end of the summer vacation season. Children go back to school making family vacations impossible to schedule. Even though my children are no […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Most of us lead lives of quiet desperation, or so says Thoreau. One day spills into another day without cease. Time never stands still for all our efforts to slow it down or speed it up. We work at the same boring job, live in the same boring suburb, […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Sometimes the best part of family vacations is coming home. Back to familiar territory with familiar faces and friends. Back to the expected, the routine, to places and people you can count on. Children, outside of their normal structure and support system of friends can be outright terrorists with […]
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