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The storm of our life
So many thanks to each of You who has thought to check in on us here in Nashville after the tremendous tornado that blew through our lives early Tuesday morning — super Tuesday 2020 will forever have a different meaning for us. We’re safe…now. But there are so many others — people who live just…
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When I’m feeling restless and dissatisfied
What should I do, Holy Lord? How should I be, when I’m feeling restless and dissatisfied? 1. Turn around, retrace your steps, figure out where you lost your way, where you lost sight of My love for you.2. If you search and search to no avail, do as Mary and Joseph did when they lost…
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Precious love
Holy Spirit, that perfect love between God, our Father, and Jesus, His fully human, fully divine Son. A love in which the child adores, trusts implicitly, honors and obeys the Father,While the Father cherishes His Child with affectionSo sweet,So precious,Filled with protection and guidance,Support and loving correction. As we watch from a distance,The Father’s and…
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The miracle of feeling awestruck by God’s beauty
Being awestruck by God’s creation involves at least two miracles. The first miracle is the beauty and magnificence of God’s creation. Spiritbath, in this post “…hello dear universe,” shared the beautiful Vimeo video from Christian Mulhauser, in which he uses time lapse photography to capture the Milky Way and other scenes from the Island of…
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Seven steps to a deeper faith
I prepared a little mission statement and annual plan for this blog for 2014. It goes like this: Mission: In 2014 I want to achieve a deeper understanding of God’s purpose for my life. Objective: To achieve this I will document here life’s little miracles as they happen to and around me. Kind of formal,…
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Christmas Letters to my Lord-Part IV
Keeping You uppermost in my thoughts and reflections during this Christmas season, trying to experience Your presence in all the unfamiliar people and situations was both fruitful and exhausting. Yet as we slow our pace, take time to reflect on Christmas and all of 2013 in preparation for the new year, I realize You were…
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Christmas Letters to my Lord-Part III
From family harmony to community connectedness. You have shown Yourself to me in amazing ways this Christmas. How can my meager ‘thank you’ be sufficient? How do I love You more and better? How can my faith possibly be enough? Pope Benedict XVI wrote these reassuring words in Jesus of Nazarath, From the baptism in…
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Christmas Letters to my Lord-Part II
Where were You, Father, in this annual Christmas celebration? I ask this knowing You haven’t gone anywhere, but knowing also that keeping pace with all my various deadlines (how apropos is this word in this context?) made feeling Your presence a challenge. Amongst all the merriment and the bounty of this season, where were You,…
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Christmas Letters to My Lord – Part I
In this particularly disoriented, discombobulated fourth quarter of 2013, when members of my little family underwent various surgeries and water damage from an upstairs neighbor required we decamp our home for 10 weeks awaiting its repair and restoration, life has been lived in unfamiliar and changing circumstances. Unusual numbers of unfamiliar people and obligations and…
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Things
I want to reflect today about the whole issue of ‘things.’ I get the importance of being detached from material possessions. I finally off-loaded years of accumulated stuff…things I was storing for the kids, things left by parents and grand parents, childhood toys and memorabilia, closets full of things long forgotten that I’d bought in…
Walking With My Brother
A gift of joy, a prayer of gratitude, a blessing from Our Father
Walking With My Brother 