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Psalm 42 – Like a Deer

 September 24, 2024

In Psalm 42 – like a deer, the deer longs for streams of water. Finding water in the desert is essential for life. What is essential for your being? What are you longing for? For me, right now I’m longing for a continuation of the beautiful summery weather we have been experiencing in Michigan, even […]

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Harvester Island, 2023 – A Feast for the Senses!

 September 19, 2023

During the first week of September, I enjoyed a feast for the senses as part of a writer’s retreat on Harvester Island, one of the many islands off of Kodiak Island in Alaska. Harvester Island – Fish Camp Harvester Island is the site of an active fish camp, one of a dwindling number, with boats […]

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Fasting From Church this Year

 March 2, 2021

Lent is a time for prayer, fasting and almsgiving. This past Sunday, the priest at my church, where I attended via video, preached about fasting. It occurred to me after he spoke, that maybe the fast I was called to this Lent, this whole year, was fasting from church. Why Fast? When fasting, you give […]

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Psalm 133: In Search of Unity

 July 23, 2020

  “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers (and sisters) dwell in unity!” (1) Psalm 133 tells us. How good, indeed! But how often is it found? We are far from such unity as partisan politics continues to reign. There have been times in my life when I have joined with others in […]

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Psalm 128: Blessed

 June 18, 2020

When asked what was necessary for happiness, Freud didn’t go on a long philosophical discourse. He said “Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.” He may very well have been referring to Psalm 128. Psalm 128 Another wisdom psalm, Psalm 128’s focus, like Psalm 127, is that happiness comes from fear of […]

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Psalm 15 – How Do We Find Happiness?

 March 20, 2018

Happiness, the pursuit of happiness, is an American ideal. Everyone has the right to pursue his/her happiness, but what does that mean? What is happiness and how do we find it? Happiness according to Webster Webster says that happiness is a state of well-being and contentment. It’s not a state of ecstatic, frenzied delight, but […]

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Thank You for Community

 November 28, 2017

Season of Gratitude Lord, I am grateful for my children who challenge me to grow in so many ways, who challenge me to be more than I am. Lord, I am grateful for the struggles of married life that challenge me to always be open to new ways of relating. These struggles promote change, growth, […]

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Living Through Peaks, Valleys, and Plateaus

 August 4, 2017

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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Praying – One Line at at Time

 July 12, 2017

Ordinary Time – Season of Stability As a cradle Catholic, I’ve been reciting the same prayers for sixty years. Of course I have them memorized, er, actually, I do and I don’t. Sometimes the lines are so familiar that I forget them. The words role off of my tongue as long as I don’t stop. […]

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Trinity Sunday

 June 11, 2017

Ordinary Time – Season of Stability The Irish may not have invented the Trinity, yet from the way they pray you might think so. Celtic spirituality is Trinitarian in its essence. The Irish love triads, arrangements of three statements that summed up a person, quality, mood or simply linked incompatible objects. They especially loved it […]

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