Happy Birthday to Me.

Over the past few weeks, I don’t know if its the stress at work, the fatigue or what but I haven’t been very faithful to my posting because I have been basically uninspired.  Some might call it a dry spell others would challenge me that when I spend so much of my time giving from my [...]

Going to Confession

“Bless me Father for I have sinned.”  Those of you who are Catholic will recognize this beginning of a great and sacred prayer of the Church called Confession, Penance or Reconciliation.  As a child I remember going to a Catholic grade school and being lined up to go to confession each Thursday because we had [...]

Free to Be

Technology! It can in the same moment free us and enslave us! I have just spent the last half hour trying to negotiate with my computer (yes, I used the right word — negotiate) to get to certain sites so that I can get some work done.  But low and behold, for whatever reason, my [...]

St. Joseph & Covenant Love

Most, when seeing March 17th get ready to wear the green and celebrate the Irish in them even if it only by association.  But to me March 19this a much more important day.  Being half Polish and after 20plus years of being deeply involved in the Polish Community here in the Greater Detroit area, my [...]

Dipping into Other’s Wells

I have nothing to say today!  It is Lent and my life is filled with commitments and expectations and obligations.  My well is dry at the moment; so I will borrow from the wisdom and inspiration of others.  Hopefully they will energize you as they do me.
For I am mindful of the plans I have [...]

St. Patrick & Forgiveness

Ah, March 17th!  Today everyone is Irish as we celebrate the feast of St. Patrick.  Green beer, corned beef &cabbage, shamrocks everywhere and then there is the wearing of the green!  As a child it was wonderful when someone forgot to wear something green today because then we had permission to torment them with pinches.  As [...]

Consumed by Faith

One of the disadvantages (or maybe advantages!) about working for the Catholic Church as a non-ordained minister is that you can be on property all day Saturday and Sunday and not make it to Mass.  Sometime so much is happening behind the scenes that require my attention that I must find alternative opportunities to fulfill my [...]

Keep on Keeping on

Change is hard.  Change that begins with the core of your being and makes you behave differently is difficult.  Most of us will think about doing something for a long, long time.  The higher the mountain we must climb the longer we will think about what we need to do and whether we really want [...]

Morning Confession

Everyone of us, for the most part, have our morning routines.  How we get up and when we eat breakfast and so on.  Even getting to work or how we settle at our desk there is often a routine.  Do we turn on our computer first then get coffee or is it the other way [...]

Blank Slate

A little over a year ago, in a desire to refine my writing skills and to develop many of the theological, spiritual and personal reflections that rattle around in my brain; I gave myself the challenge to blog every day, if possible.  This process has been very eye opening for me and quite the challenge.  One [...]