Every other Monday night I meet with a prayer group for a one credit class. Usually I am tired or preoccupied enough that I am annoyed about having to go. Then I am ashamed of being annoyed about having to go. On All Souls’ Day we were supposed to pray the labyrinth outside the library.Continue reading >>
The Helplessness of Love
Today I found myself feeling great affection for a group of people, and I thought “the appropriate response to this is humility”. I recognize myself as a vessel of a powerful force I neither create nor control. I am not the first nor the greatest to have cared for people. I am subsumed by aContinue reading >>
The Lord is Kind and Merciful
It’s been a week and a day since my family gathered back home for the funeral. As a liturgy buff, I’m not one of those people who says they “hate funerals” – I actually don’t mind funerals, it’s people dying that brings me down. If I had anything to do with it, this funeral wasContinue reading >>
Life is not ended, just changed
“All the wickedness in this world that man might work or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea.” —William Langland Earlier this week there was a terrible tragedy that resulted in the loss of two family members. We’re shattered and praying, and I’m trying to fillContinue reading >>
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