March 13, 2025 Lauds And is this prayer?Just this, the shade rolled upabove smudged window panes,two unmatched candles on the sill,a vase of store-bought mumsa bright offering?Outside, the sun seepsinto the faded gray skybefore it brushes itwith the rose and saffronof another new beginning.A curtain of still-naked treesprepares to bud forthin faithful hope. Can thisContinueContinue reading “Morning Prayer”
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The God-kiss
March 11, 2025 Some years ago, a term came to my mind that describes the serendipitous, often unnoticed, gifts that Love provides us. I call them “God-kisses.” They’ve always been, always will be, yet how often we miss them. Yesterday, I received such a kiss, though I almost stepped on it. I was walking throughContinueContinue reading “The God-kiss”
New Year 2025
December 31, 2024 With apologies to Dylan Thomas, may we not go gentle into 2025, losing our souls to apathy and complacency, but enter this particular New Year with eyes and hearts wide open, ready to rage against the dying of the Light, of Love, of Compassion, of Justice, of Mercy, and of Honesty, whereverContinueContinue reading “New Year 2025”
Advent 2024: Passion and Dream
Advent Day Twenty, December 20, 2024 “The Christmas stories are not about a spectacular series of miraculous events that happened in the past that we are to believe in for the sake of going to heaven. Rather, they are about God’s passion, God’s dream, for a transformed earth.” Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, TheContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Passion and Dream”
Advent 2024: See
Advent Day 19, December 19, 2024 As the days of Advent-waiting move us ever closer to the Light, I reflect on how we can continue to be Advent People who carry the light together, especially after the tree is taken down and the ornaments placed in their dusty boxes and the calendar flipped to 2025.ContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: See”
Advent 2024: Fog
Advent Day 18, December 18, 2024 The above photo shows the view from my kitchen window yesterday morning. At this time of year, with the leaves gone, I can usually see the traffic below on one of the busiest roads into the city, but not yesterday. Fog snaked low across the valley before descending over the roadContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Fog”
Advent 2024: Caesar or Christ?
Advent Day 17, December 17, 2024 This Advent series began as an invitation to unity in a world that is fractured by war, political division, insatiable greed, power-seeking, and biases of every sort, from skin color to sexual orientation. It is, in fact, a world very like the one that the Light/Love/Christ entered some two-thousandContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Caesar or Christ?”
Advent 2024: Candlelight
Advent Day 16, December 16, 2024 “Light your candles quietly, such candles as you possess, wherever you are.” Father Alfred Delp If you’ve followed my blog at all these past few years, you can’t miss the fact that I love candlelight. In fact, I deLIGHT in the light, especially in these dark winter months. This morningContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Candlelight”
Advent 2024: Gaudete Sunday
Advent Day 15, December 15, 2024 For those who incorporate an Advent wreath into their Advent traditions, today is the day to light the pink candle, the Joy Candle. Known by its Latin term, Gaudete Sunday, this third Joyful Sunday in Advent reminds us that we are almost “there,” that the waiting for the Christ-LightContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Gaudete Sunday”
Advent 2024: Shine
Advent Day 14, December 14, 2024 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. (Luke 1: 28-29) “But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord shouldContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Shine”
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