How anybody can say that God’s word is not personal, I don’t know. How anybody can say that the Bible is boring isn’t living it full enough. This isn’t true every time I open the Bible but I am so often caught by how what I read or hear really applies so directly to my life. Take today [...]
Archive for July, 2008
God’s Judgement
July 30, 2008Have you ever wondered what really pleases God? I am not talking about the big stuff. We all know that acts of kindness please God. Giving time, talent and treasure to the Church and the needy, with an unselfish heart pleases God. Nope, what I am talking about is the little things. For Instance: I went [...]
Martha, the Patron Saint of Eeyores
July 29, 2008If you are a regular reader of my blogs you should be able to discern that I suffer from a disorder that has a rare trait. Even though I suffer from it those around me are made very uncomfortable. The disorder is called… self-pity. It comes and goes mostly dependant on my fatigue level. The [...]
The Word of God as Rotting Fruit
July 28, 2008I have had a routine as long as I have had to maintain an household. About every two to three weeks I clean out the insides and throw away everything that is rotten or spoiled. Now some of you may wonder at this curiosity that anyone could let food spoil. I have a child who [...]
God’s Choice: Beauty vs Beast
July 26, 2008Last night a colleague and I enjoyed a wonderful evening at the theater. The production was Beauty and the Beast and it was very well done. I watched the movie with my daughter when she was much younger. It was actually a very significant and poignant fable for me years ago because I saw beyond the [...]
Persecuted Church
July 25, 2008Now that the WYD event is done and my daughter is home you would expect me to shut up about all this, but I can’t. You see, it never occurred to me to look to see what politics might exist around such a wonderful world event. I assumed like most of you reading this blog [...]
Homecoming!
July 24, 2008Last night my daughter came home. She has been on a 10 day pilgrimage to her own holy land… the space in her heart where she could remember and met herself and find glimpses of God. She did this by partaking in the World Youth Day experience in Sydney, Australia. A far way to travel for [...]
Recieve the Power
July 23, 2008One thing that you will learn about me as we travel together in discovery is that I feel a very personal connection to Scripture. If I believed in past lives (which I don’t) I would guess that I was a Jewish Scholar in some past migration. My special love is for the Prophets. They are [...]
Micah 6:6-8
July 22, 2008Yesterday I missed an opportunity that I would like to correct today. If you are a regular reader of my blogs you will have figured out that I try to attend daily Mass. It is an important moment for me because it grounds me in what my day is suppose to be about and often [...]
The Kingdom of Heaven is like…
July 21, 2008This Sunday’s Gospel we will hear not once, not twice but four times Jesus say: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like… ” Think He is trying to make a point? Reality is that we have little way of really understanding the awesome experience of eternal life. This world, this reality is so full of sin that any example given is limited. [...]
