The Sting is Gone
I don’t often re post a piece I’ve written, but for some reason this one from last year was on my heart today..I think you’ll figure out who the little girl is. What I discovered when I went back...
View ArticleFour Crazy Friends
Mark 2:1-12 Four crazy friends. That’s what it takes sometimes. People who love us enough to see what paralyzes our spirit and soul– carrying us past what has crowded Jesus out of our life, to His...
View ArticleThe Lord Was My Stay
Submersion of Pharoah and the Red Sea Andrea Previtali c. 1480 In my pocket today…I remember– Through many tribulations that almost overwhelmed me; He reached from on high, he took me, he...
View ArticleOne Question
Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages, so I am allotted months...
View ArticleSaint Pantaleon
Saint Pantaleon of Nicomedia Physician and Martyr (†303) I spend an inordinate amount of time in hospitals and nursing homes surrounded by medical professionals whose gifts and talents I am most...
View ArticleThe Infancy Narratives
I suppose I’m on a bit of a blogging hiatus. Every now and then, tired catches up with me and I need to find a quiet corner, collect all the books I’ve set aside because I’ve been too busy, and...
View ArticleThe Year of Faith: Jump Out of the Boat
Jesus Walking on Water François Boucher Cathédrale Saint-Louis (1766) Versailles What if God challenges us to jump out of the boat in this Year of Faith ? What if He allows people to cross our...
View ArticleFor the Love of Jesus, Antonella and Kings
The Miracles of St Francis of Paola Peter Paul Rubens c 1627-1628 Reading the life of St Francis of Paola, (whose feast the church celebrates when it doesn’t fall in the Octave of Easter), you...
View ArticleThe Sacred Heart of Jesus and my sinful hands
The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men…Luke 24:7 This is a Scripture I often recall as I take communion to the hospital on my pastoral care day; for after all … this is...
View ArticleThere’s Redemption in Ravioli ~ Redux
This post is a replay from last year, but I was reminded of it since the hour draws near for this massive undertaking. I would pay someone to take my place…but according to the latest text from my...
View Article“It affected her forever”
I wasn’t familiar with late Amanda Peterson, an actress who tragically died of a drug overdose in July, but I saw an online article stating that the toxicology report revealed, the former actress had...
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