What do these three paragraphs have to do with each other? I don’t know … One was about violence; one about prayer; one about diplomacy. None had easy answers – just feelings and questions. If we want answers, we need… Continue reading

Good morning, good souls. Hear ye, hear ye. Court is in session. All rise! The honorable you are presiding over your day, your choices, and your responses to all sorts of evidence suggesting that it might be a bad day.… Continue reading

Living in a comfort zone is like pulling off at a rest stop on one's journey, pitching a tent, and calling it home while the world passes by on the way to multiple destinations one will never reach. It's comfortable,… Continue reading

The sacrament of failure was observed in timely fashion …with suitable dignity …and appropriate simplicity …time honored liturgy. Continue reading

We face a fearsome, fierce todayYet, trembling through, I stand to say that I shall stay,But only if I may, kneel along the wayTo pray. Continue reading

Faith embraces that which flickersIn the darkness far beyond our graspWhose enlightened silence whispersIn ears that hear with hands that clasp. Continue reading

  Dirty dishesScattered toysSilly wishesLittle boysLife's a wonderWhen you findGentle thunderOf this kind Continue reading

How can the wrath of man praise God? It happens when God turns the tables of our worst intentions. Our power plays do not impress nor intimidate God. Nor do they honor God unless God enters in to exercise His… Continue reading

We are where we have been …     and who we have been …        and we are who we are  and where we are, but … we are also where we are going … and who… Continue reading

There is no illegitimate prayer of the heart that is seeking God and our sense of urgency is a melody of full engagement to His ears. Continue reading