Act of Faith
How fragile is the gift of life, predicated on a time beyond time, planned in such a way that every year, every day, will take that life to the end of its earthly existence. Life...
View ArticleI Remember
There was a time when my feet would let me run with the wind and dance a waltz or Charleston and jump rope or hopscotch and climb and hike and see sights that still take space in my memory - but...
View ArticlePoliticians
079 Capitol Hill United States Congress 1993 (Photo credit: David Holt London) TV time is bought, so pleasing to station owners, who fatten their revenues. Cover the internet and send e-mail...
View ArticleMark
Rainy, cold winter nights are not conducive to having Cub Scout meetings. Yet there were few choices. So it took clever plans to keep eight-year-olds interested so they would continue to progress...
View ArticleThe Journey
We take our journey through paths or roads, through the highways and byways and detours and we chart our life. We are given the essentials to handle the expected and hope to be prepared for the...
View ArticleCountry Farmer
Who’d have thought it? The land is cleared, waist-high mustard plants bite the dust, and are dumped at the dumps. A “horse”, a fine roto-tiller, has eaten through the firm-packed clay soil. Manure...
View ArticleNew World
Lord of Life, Jesus, received within the soul, cleansing impurities to make us whole, giving us hope for a heavenly goal, for this, we thank you, Lord. Thanks be to the one who in her...
View ArticleA Star Has Fallen
Sometimes in my insomnia the radio is switched on- through tossing and turning, and hot feet and cold. For most of the time the boring early hours programs bring in strange subjects....
View ArticleThank You
Let Jesus Bring You Light! (Photo credit: VinothChandar) Creator of the morning sun Who when the dawn of time began, did give us everything within the plan of Your creation - and all was...
View ArticleHome – Then Gone Again
It was a wonderful, long weekend, the kind you wait for and plan for and buy extra foods for just to welcome home the “baby.” The twenty-eight year old “baby” whose three thousand mile trip would...
View ArticleBell Ringer
Christmas scenes, cards with different sayings, different messages. Patrons comparing and making the right choice to share with friends. Outside the store, the red-jacketed Salvation...
View ArticleThe Hound
In my adolescent years of high school a teacher read a poem by Francis Thompson, a poem that spoke to me. It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t clever. It was hard to understand. The poem told of the “Hound of...
View ArticleStretch of Faith
I came to church and, as usual, reached to bless myself, but the holy water bowls were gone. It was Lent, and all around the back part of the church was filmy plastic where work could be done, so...
View ArticlePromise
Mary and Joseph and the Christ Child so new, reaching His arms out, encouraging you to come, kneel before Him and whisper your love, while heavenly choirs spread the message above. “Glory to God!...
View ArticleIntercession
Mary Mother of Jesus (Photo credit: dbgg1979) Mediator with the Father, Jesus, Lord, Whose life began existing with a “fiat” word, Whose guidance for an earthly life came as lessons heard from...
View ArticleMama Is Speaking
Mamá (Photo credit: RebelCallejeros) All through my formative years Mama would need to give me a direct order, and with a headstrong kid she needed to argue. Sometimes I was in my bedroom...
View ArticleHospital Visit
I visited a frail lady today small in her hospital bed showing the twinges of pain on her face and being embarrassed for showing it. I visited a frail lady and found that even though we...
View ArticleHarry
Rose and Harry had met my parents once at my house, while they were visiting. I guess names weren’t important to them; we were friends, and my parents were Mom and Dad. However, about a year later,...
View ArticleBaby Talk
“God is dead!” Someone actually said that in a sentence. In my definition I can hardly speak of God only in language that resembles baby-talk. If I had to define God, I can only try in reflection seen...
View ArticleRetirement
Retirement (Photo credit: Tax Credits) On occasion, I have helped friends about to retire, about to leave the work force, about to embark on a serious change of life, to plan their retirement work. I...
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