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One King’s Epiphany: Final Arithmetic and Losing the Stars (Madeleine L’Engle)
Madeleine L’Engle does it again! Read this Epiphany poem once, twice, three times: One king’s epiphany I shall miss the stars. Not that I shall stop looking as they pattern their wild will each night...
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Become a Companion on Christ’s Journey: Bonaventure and Infant Mysteries in...
In The Tree of Life, St. Bonaventure meditatively traces the mystery that is the life of Jesus as it appears in the New Testament. This Franciscan – a scholar-peer to Thomas Aquinas at the University...
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Why Are We Not Alive With Joy?
I’m finishing these days Madeleine L’Engle’s Bright Evening Star: Mystery of Incarnation. Yes, I KNOW we’re out of the Christmas season and into Ordinary Time. Ah…. but of course the Incarnation...
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Enter the Lenten Wilderness: Remain and Be Transformed
Wilderness, desert, place apart. Lent invites us to embark on a journey that removes us from the multiplicity of distractions and involvements – even in brief snatches. Through the practices of...
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What Will Mean Life for You? Lent D2
For a follower of Jesus – for one who seeks to be holy (one with God) – and to bring the rest of creation and all people/s along for the ride – what is fullness of life? We might look to John 10:10...
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Lenten Savings Time – Losing an Hour
“The hour we are going to lose this weekend is the one I was planning on going to the gym.” LOL, right? I saw this today and thought it was pretty funny. Attributing to the hour we are losing due to...
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The Uses of Sorrow, Darkness, Temptation: Mary Oliver and Lent D5*
The Uses of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. (Mary Oliver, from...
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Joseph of Nazareth – Friend, Witness, Patron – Be With Us, Tend Our Journeys Too
Happy Feast of St. Joseph, one of my patrons! In Mary’s vulnerability, he encircled her. His sheltering created a boundary where Mary’s availability to God and the life within her could flourish. Mary...
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Trinity Love – in Jesus – Beckons, Waits
O soul, return, for Jesus Christ is calling you with hands outstretched on the cross; return, for the whole abyss of the Trinity stands ready for your coming. See how patiently He waited – oh how long...
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Aslan’s Resurrection Romp and Roar
The rising of the sun had made everything look so different – all the colours and shadows were changed – that for a moment they didn’t see the important thing. Then they did. The Stone Table was...
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Keep the Vigil of Mystery – It Matters: Pondering with Jessica Powers
“To live with the Spirit of God is to be a listener. It is to keep the vigil of mystery, earthless and still. One leans to catch the stirring of the Spirit, strange as the wind’s will.” I am attracted,...
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Sanctuary, Robin Williams – Thoughts
The blog entry below is a ‘move-over’ from a Facebook status-musing this morning, with a little editing and a few adds. I thought it worth contributing to the conversation, the meaning-making, the...
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Casting Down the Compass of the Wither and the Why: Living With the Spirit,...
The soul that walks where the wind of the Spirit blows turns like a wandering weather-vane toward love. It may lament like Job or Jeremiah, echo the wounded hart, the mateless dove; it may rejoice in...
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Why Not Live Our Whole Life as a Dance?
JOY! SMILES! DANCING! Advent (and LIFE!) practices! This year I have been reading a number of ancillary works on Therese of Lisieux, my ‘confirmation saint’ and one of my (thank God, many!) familiar...
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Words and Wonder-ings to Hearten the Creative – Who Is, and Serves, Art
For those who would serve the work of creativity – who must, in order to be true to their life’s (or this moment’s) call – there is a wonder in this serving and seeking. Whether one’s work is with...
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The Light Gains Ground! (Ravens, Advent, & Mary Oliver)
I’m a crazy happy Baltimore Ravens fan, and LOVE to see those games when the team turns a corner and starts to climb back into the competition. Things start to click, energy builds, anxiety lessens and...
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Seek Out All Our Fears: Psalm 10
Nan Merrill’s Psalms for Praying have long been a gift I find treasures in for reflection. Her phrasings have given me words to whisper, and pleas to cry out. They have soothed and challenged me, and...
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Wonder At What Tender Flesh Receives
Amazement should mark our every inhalation – amazement that we live, that love and thought and breath find home in our flesh! Amazement too that there is a distinct “I” who is the self who is...
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Wake Up? Do I Have To?
Our new rescue pup, MayBelle, is a delight and a handful. Although she’s supposedly 4 years old, she is in many ways experiencing puppyhood with us. Like a puppy, she goes from wild to zonked out. The...
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Lent 2017: Learning to Live Loved
Tomorrow Lent begins. And so, I’m beginning a daily – or near daily – effort to write a few (or more) words here. Although there is no one overarching theme that will be pursued, some patterns may...
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