Monthly Archives: March 2010

"Christ, all love, you speak one word to us: Yes. Yes, I am with you. Yes, I always will be. Yes, in deepest sorrow. Yes, when you have lost your way, your sight, yourself. Yes, when you don't know what … Continue reading →

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." Henry David Thoreau We have a gigantic amaryllis bulb that has been growing in a pot on our kitchen table since Valentine's Day. Over the last two weeks it … Continue reading →

"In a way, nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small we haven't time-and to see takes times, like to have a friend takes time." Georgia O'Keefe I think I have mentioned in these pages before that our church … Continue reading →

"A butterfly comes and stays on a leaf-a leaf much warmed by the sun-ans shuts his wings.In a minute he opens them, shuts them again,half wheels round, and by and by-just when he chooses and not before-floats away.The flowers open, … Continue reading →

"Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him,"Teacher, order your disciples to stop." He answered, "I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out." Luke 19:39-40  In Christian churches around the world, this Sunday is … Continue reading →

Over the last several weeks I have been taking a spiritual memoir writing class. The class is made up of people who in a variety of ways make their living by being present to the spiritual lives of others: ministers, … Continue reading →

At the conclusion of the reading of Isaiah at today's St. Patrick's Day Mass at the Cathedral of St. Paul, we were instructed in how to respond after the reading in Gaelic: Buiocas Le Dia: "Thanks be to God." It … Continue reading →

"I came that you might have life, and have it abundantly." John 10:10 Signs of spring are everywhere. As the snow has slowly melted into the ground, the greenness of spring is pushing its way up through rich, brown earth. … Continue reading →

I may be one of the last people around to see the movie Avatar. I had this grand plan of seeing the movies nominated for Academy Awards before last Sunday's television broadcast but found I kept putting this one off … Continue reading →

"Today like ever day we wake up emptyand frightened. Don't open the door to the studyand begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.Let the beauty we love be what we do.There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the … Continue reading →