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Showing posts with label Beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beauty. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Snowfall

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This morning, I sat and watched the snow fall against the backdrop of the neighbor's brick house. It started out, just a few small flake...
Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Better than a Hallelujah

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 Recently I was reminded again of the song Better than a Hallelujah, which Amy Grant recorded in 2010. From the first that I heard it, it...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Ponderings from Dear Master, Part Two

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Fortunately I marked for myself the second piece that struck me as I was reading Ponderings from Dear Master , which I had intended to write...
Tuesday, July 02, 2024

Traveling Retreat

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I just returned from just under a week of travel, so it's time to unpack. My suitcases were emptied yesterday, but this unpacking is for...
Thursday, February 08, 2024

My Body Will Rest in Safety

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I've pretty much always had a social circle of people older than I am. One such friend mentioned his uncomfortable awareness that everyo...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Snipping off the Hock Lock

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Something happened this week that I can't describe. But I have a feeling I will look back on this as a deeply significant moment.  Words...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

A New (Leg of the) Journey

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 New years and new things may suggest each other, but I'm not one to choose some big newness project on January 1. Gosh, even writing th...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Become Who You Are

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One of the reasons I write is to document the unfolding of life within me. Since childhood I have found that wrestling thoughts and feelings...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Sadness, and Love

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Photo by Jan Axelson Cherokee Marsh, Madison, WI Yesterday, we buried our pastor. There is still a tinge of the surreal to it for me. I'...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Whether Paul or Apollos, or Charismatic or Latin

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In 1991, when I first responded to the Lord's call to enter the Catholic Church, I belonged to an interdenominational charismatic fellow...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Disturbing Feast Day

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Léon Cogniet (1794-1880), “The Massacre of the Innocents” (photo: Public Domain) I don't like the feast of the Holy Innocents. That was ...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

A Gift of Grace

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Six years ago today, something profound happened. In fact, it was so profound that six years later I know I'm only beginning to take it ...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

The Gospel Has Eyes

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Today is Sunday. I went to Mass this morning with this prayer: to find God's gaze on me in His Word.  This book that I love so much, The...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Inflating my Christmas Hope

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I admit it; Christmas has been going flat for me. As a small child there was, I suppose, glitz that even I managed to be excited about, and ...
Sunday, December 05, 2021

Doing Penance

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  Interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a return, a conversion to God with all our heart, an end of sin, a turni...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Integration

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 I became a Catholic when I was 25. (I shared my conversion story here , if you haven't read it.) In my first fifteen or so years as a C...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Silence

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Recently I had a revelation about how much I both need and love silence. The silence I love and need is more than the lack of sounds rever...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Please People, Always Bring your Toddlers to Confession with You

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I went to confession today. I think some of the silliest temptations that ever go through my interior strike me when I am considering or p...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Lessons from the Mystics for Normal People

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Last weekend was the annual retreat for my Secular Carmelite community, and for the first time since I have been involved we had a Carmelite...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

What Lectors Might Learn from Good Storytellers

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In combing through a stack of books today, I happened to come across these paragraphs in an essay on attributes needed by a good storyteller...