Nostalgia
Time it was
and what a time it was
It was
A time of innocence
a time of confidences.
Long ago,
It must be
I have a photograph
preserve your memories
they’re all that’s left you.
S & G
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 have grasped you by the hand; I formed you and set youas a covenant of the people,a light to the nations,To open the eyes of the blind,to bring out prisoners from confinement,and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness” Isaiah 42: 6-7You.
“ Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace for ever.“ As usual I dropped the ball this Advent. I tried to focus myself but things kind of spiraled and in the end my words would have felt empty and my showing up rote. I wanted this Advent to be more than that. I…
Today’s quote is from my pastor, who was talking to the children about Pope Francis. “He hasn’t changed one rule. Not one rule. What he has done is changed the emphasis on love.” My pastor, like myself and so many people that I know love this man because he is emphasizing love. We are in such…
“Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. Mt. 7:24-25 My father in…
Click the link to the Facebook post from Vatican Radio-English Edition. Pope Francis during his general audience today concedes to the playfulness of the wind. If you look, you can see him holding his cross. When I do this, I am praying to someone. My guess is that this is the secret to his joy…