After having spent the preceding weeks committed to a long volume of Tolstoy, I decided to play the field during September, dabbling in a few genres. Memories of a Marriage I took a chance and checked a book out from the “express 3-day loan” table at the library. This novel by Louis Begley was everythingContinue reading >>
Summer ends now;
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes, Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour; And, yes, heart, whatContinue reading >>
Hardwired for Hope
While I was on silent retreat this past winter I found myself drawn to the psalms. I came to the retreat with my own litany of woes, and heard in the voice of the psalmist the faith-through-troubles that was characterizing my spiritual life. My spiritual director suggested I pick out a few to carry aroundContinue reading >>
Now is the time
Now is the time to know that all you do is sacred. Now, why not consider a lasting truce with yourself and God. Now is the time to understand that all your ideas of right and wrong were just a child’s training wheels to be laid aside when you can finally live with veracity andContinue reading >>
The Annual Ash Wednesday Round-Up
Much like the liturgical calendar, I can get a little repetitive. So once again, here are a few of my favorite things for Ash Wednesday. A song by Dann Russo: An excerpt from the poem Ash Wednesday by TS Eliot: … Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreamsContinue reading >>
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