Ordinary Time – Season of Stability So often we equate the dark times of our lives to times of crisis and loss. I don’t know about that. Sometimes the truly dark times are the times when life just goes on, day by day, in a routine fashion. You feel stuck, stagnant, like water in a […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability My home is a work in progress. I can never completely leave it alone. I have projects half done, lying about as a reminder to finish them. No sooner do I finish one project than I begin another. I have plans to take me into the next decade and […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Today there is a complete solar eclipse. I remember there being an eclipse when I was a child. My mother had us stay inside with the curtains closed lest we fail to resist the urge to look up and watch the event and end up blind. I wonder about […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Stuck in traffic, inching along making no progress. You’ve made plans but now you’ll be late or not even make it at all. Sometimes life is like that. Stuck in one place, bottled in, unable to move. You feel like you’re getting nowhere fast. Plans you’ve made have fallen […]
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Ordinary Time – The Feast of the Assumption Woman among the stars, radiant in her glory. A woman in her fullest potential. That is Mary. So loved as a mother that she merits a special place in heaven, among the stars, the sky as her gown, the stars her adornments. She is the crowning glory […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Some people love living in a whirlwind. You never know what’s going to happen next. If there isn’t a crisis to deal with at that moment they will go out and create one. They have difficulty accepting and enjoying the quiet times in their lives when everything is running […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability “Mom, what if the sun stayed out all night?” Nothing like the dog days of summer to elicit questions in young minds! “That does happen in parts of Alaska. The have six months of sunshine and six months of darkness.” “That would be weird. I don’t know if I […]
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Ordinary Time – Feast of Dominic Dominic, great preacher and teacher, he left the confines of a contemplative lifestyle in order to be an itinerate preacher. Founder of the order of Preachers, his mission–to speak only of God, or with God–lasts long after he is gone. His ministry continues: a continuation of that great mandate […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Sometimes Scripture fails me. It is flat and tasteless in my mouth. No words of inspiration or exhortation. Sometimes it misleads me. I focus on that which isn’t for me and ignore that which is truly directed at me. Sometimes prayer fails me. Search though I might, I find […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Married life isn’t lived just on the peaks, the happy moments of celebration, nor is it just for the valley times to support each other through times of sorrow and loss. A good deal of married life is spent on the plateau of day to day living, bearing with […]
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