Tag: community
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‘In the midst of the thicket,’ we’ve not necessarily lost our way. Let our friends reassure us.
These are the two take-aways for me from In gratitude to friends, Mags Blackie, most recent post. This message is particularly comforting to me just now. My interior life, this blog are being sorely challenged just now and for the foreseeable future, as life has seemed to intervene with priorities that can’t be set aside.…
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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 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…
Walking With My Brother 