New Day!
Since it is January 10th, I have decided to briefly come out of my cocoon and get some work done. Bear with me as I get this blog reoriented into regular time.
Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
I think I just washed the dip bowl from last years New Years Eve celebration and here we are at another. Why does it feel like time is racing faster than ever? Any quantum physics experts to help me out with this? Either way, I guess the time is now to consider any adjustments in…
On a service trip to Kentucky when I was in college we met a gentleman in the back woods (mind you this was in the late 1980’s) who owned a mule named Samson. After all the work was done at his house he was sizing up a couple of my male friends trying to determine…
It’s happening again, that time when we decide who will lead this country. With it comes the finger pointing and impatience with other people’s points of view, perhaps not as badly yet as 2016, but this is only the beginning. For me, this period is torture. I hear (and sometimes partake) in disparaging, I cannot…
“As he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If this day you only knew what makes for peace — but now it is hidden from your eyes.” Luke 19:41-42When I read this passage, my heart breaks for Jesus, for Jerusalem, for all of us because we know what makes for…
Here is an article from the America blog about a new book “Flying In the Face of Tradition” by Brother Louis DeThomasis, FSC, that discusses what we have discussed here many times; the need for a sort of death in order to bring new life to our imploding institutional church. If you are one to not keep up…