When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

The Year I'd Rather Forget... Maybe

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This has been a year that, simply put, I never wish to repeat. In reality it has probably been one of the most important years of my life in...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Thoughts on Responding to Suffering

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Sitting down to the keyboard to see if I can't sort through some thoughts. I'm thinking about how I respond to the suffering of fr...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Things Yet to Come

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Advent has my heart about ready to explode. Truly, I have this spiritual throbbing sense that I imagine is comparable to what kids feel when...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Coming to Peace with my Brain

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So, here's something else I've learned lately. I'm learning about how to get along with my brain. It is rather rare and unusua...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Some Profound Morning Thoughts about Hair

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Yesterday I was on the phone with someone whom I apparently have met but can't quite picture. She told me she knew our neighbors, and ad...
Sunday, December 09, 2012

Advent, and my New Patron Saint

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Advent has long held a deep attraction for me. Can't even say when it began, or why, other than the fact that God has been calling me, I...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

And Then it All Makes Sense

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It is early afternoon, and I've been awake for nearly 12 hours now. I probably should be napping. However, I figure I might use this opp...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Patron Saint of the Year

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It is nearly the first day of Advent, and though it is hardly a virtue I've been pretty much chomping at the bit in anticipation of its ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Death

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I guess I'm in a silent phase right now. It's weird -- I know that good and deep things are happening to me, but every once in a whi...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

A Different Twist on "The Other Nine"

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Something struck me the other day when the Gospel reading at Mass was the healing of the ten lepers. I know this gospel is coming up again (...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Dear Trial: Take me Somewhere

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I haven't been able to get myself to write much, of late. It's not that I haven't had thoughts along the line of which I would n...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Meekness and Anger

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Recently I finished Fr. Hinnebusch's book on the Beatitudes that I mentioned a few posts back. It seems a rare thing that I read a book ...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Holy Darkness

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This afternoon at the Mass for the Carmelite community's profession, we sang this as the communion hymn. In fact, it was these precise v...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Singing the Praises of God's Faithfulness

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I am still contemplating the anawim theme I wrote about in the last post in the light of my current life circumstances. I cannot pretend t...
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Saturday, October 20, 2012

The Call to be Anawim

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Lately I've been slowly leaking it out that I am in the midst of a difficult spiritual trial. Explaining it all is not something I inten...