Several years ago, we had an unseasonably warm winter followed by a lost fruit crop because trees bloomed too early and the buds were killed by frost. The following year though was a boom year as the trees made up for the lost crop by producing in abundance, overflowing. Farmers had a difficult time harvesting […]
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When I’m thirsty, nothing quenches my thirst like a glass of cold water. It’s what my body needs and longs for. I may enjoy a good cup of coffee or glass of wine, but nothing is quite like water. It is necessary for life, just as God is necessary for life. Psalm 63 reminds us […]
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“Do it again, do it again,” small children say over and over again when engaged in a favorite activity. One push on a swing is never enough. You have to keep pushing till you drop from exhaustion. It isn’t enough to read a favorite book once. It has to be read multiple times till you […]
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“Would you like to be queen for a day?” the announcer would shout at the beginning of the TV Show “Queen for a Day.” You can, Psalm 21 tells us! I remember watching as a kid. Even then I thought it was a little strange as four women were selected out of the audience and told […]
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“Keep me as the apple of the eye,” our psalmist asks God today. It is a beautiful prayer for protection, calling upon God to save the writer from evil, slanderous men who had brought charges against him in court. The writer has taken refuge in the temple and calls upon God to protect him. It […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability “Dear God, I love you this much!” The little girl stretches out her arms wide. “And I love you more,” God says. “I love you to the moon and back,” the young woman says. “And I love you even more.” “I love you to Jupiter and the stars and […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability William Blake spoke of seeing the world in a grain of sand. If that is possible, it is no less possible to see the world in a kernel of wheat. A kernel of wheat is wondrous, lovely to behold. So simple and yet so complex. A kernel of wheat […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability “Tony, Tony, come around, something’s lost and must be found.” Desperation, superstitious mumbo jumbo, I once thought about praying to St. Anthony in order to find lost items, until I was given a copy of the formal prayer. The actual prayer is a prayer of abandonment to God’s will. […]
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Ordinary Time What is so wrong with being ordinary? Nobody wants to be ordinary. They want to be different. They may even believe themselves to be somehow different in a mighty hubris. They don’t want to admit that they are just human like all the rest of us. No better. No worse. Just human. It’s […]
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