Friendship: The Eighth Sacrament
Friendship has been by far one of the greatest blessings in my life. I agree with the spiritual writer, Alice Camille, who says that friendship should be named the eighth sacrament.
When God Comes as Earthquake
The writer Meister Eckhart wrote, “There is nothing in all creation so like God as stillness.” In contrast, a Hasidic Jewish teaching says, “God is an earthquake.” Which is it? Is God stillness or earthquake?
When the Blue Heron Flies
My new book is out. Entitled When the Blue Heron Flies, the book is a collection of prayer-poems meant to nourish the spirit.
People Aren’t Snowflakes
Did you know that there are 80 categories of snowflakes? I found this out in a beautiful book entitled The Snowflake: Winter’s Secret Beauty by Kenneth Libbercht and Patricia Rasmussen. Libercht wrote the text; Rasmussen took the incredible pctures of actual snowflakes.
People Aren't Snowflakes
Did you know that there are 80 categories of snowflakes? I found this out in a beautiful book entitled The Snowflake: Winter’s Secret Beauty by Kenneth Libbercht and Patricia Rasmussen. Libercht wrote the text; Rasmussen took the incredible pctures of actual snowflakes.
Jesus Had Bad Days Too
The other day I had a bad day. I woke up to pouring rain that never quit. I was stiff and achy the entire day. Then my printer wouldn’t print right. Then I got a sudden case of writer’s block. The article I was working on just wouldn’t come. Later in the day I received […]
Holy Humor Week
There’s a tradition in the church that goes back hundreds of years. On Easter Monday people used to gather together and tell jokes. That’s right, tell jokes. It all stemmed from their realization that when God raised Jesus from the dead, God had the last laugh!
The Week We Call Holy
This week is Holy Week. We call it “Holy” because this is the week we commemorate the essence of the Paschal Mystery, that is, the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. On Thursday we commemorate the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Eucharist as a way of staying with us in time forever. That day […]
The 32,000 Year-Old Seeds
Did you read the story about the 32,000 year-old seeds that germinated recently? It seems researchers at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow found some ancient plants (silene stenophylla) in a fossilized squirrel burrow in Siberia.
My To-Do List
The other day I was thinking about my to-do list, that small piece of paper on which I write my chores or goals for the day or week. Here are a few items currently on my to-do list: write blog (which I’m doing now!), call Sue, mail handouts to Kalamazoo, prepare presentations for Villa Maria, […]