Jan 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn…Where there is no vision, the people perish”. Proverbs 29:2 &18(KJV) Dear all, As I look towards 2008, along with many others I am sure; I cannot help but...
Jan 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today I celebrated Christmas Day with my dad in his Extended Care Unit—at a luncheon filled with people’s bodies and minds frozen to various degrees, and staff and family members cheerfully feeding them, greeting them, teasing them. The wife of one of...
Dec 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
You have been living, drifting on the surface.You have been living in the desert with only a sip here and a sip there.You have been waiting season after season for evidence of a fertile womb.Like streams of fresh clean water that appear to people of the desert,like...
Dec 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
For many reasons we have chosen St. John the Baptist as the patron of our Center for Action and Contemplation. Our feast day is celebrated on June 24, as the sun (reminiscent of John 3:30) agrees to decrease. John the Baptist is the prophet who rejects the...
Dec 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
"Do you and I need to flatter the gods any more? They’re tearing us apart . . . oh, how shall I bear it? . . . and what worse can they do? Of course the Fox is wrong. He knows nothing about her. He thought too well of the world. He thought there were no gods, or...
Dec 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
This Christmas season there has been something that has been gnawing away at me more than it has in other years. Like everyone else, I enjoy the nativity pageants: the children waving at their parents, re-inventing their lines (if they remember them at all), picking...
