Ordinary Time – Season of Stability What do you do when the well runs dry? When you’ve run out of tears, but not out of grief? When you’ve exhausted all possibilities, everything humanly possible? Do you dig a new well? Try something different or a new approach? Or do you continue in the same well […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Regardless of how rich or poor, powerful or powerless, whether you are a CEO of a multi-national corporation or a baby, we all get the same amount of time each day. Time cannot be bought or sold, which is good. If not, we would see a whole new market […]
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Some people love crossword puzzles. They spend hours playing with words, seeking out the right one. It’s a good exercise and helps keep us mentally alert, but personally I prefer the visual aspect of a maze to words. At times I have approached life like a maze. I think there has to be a “right” […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Silence is golden, or so they say. In this day and age it is harder to find than gold, more precious than gold. Our ears are polluted every day with deluges of noise–the radio in the car, the TV and stereo at home, Ipods, muzak in the elevator at […]
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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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