Sunday, November 13, 2016
God's Will Works ~
It is in silence, the old monk said, like when the sun rises, or in the silent chamber of the heart that God's will works.
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
Crucial Decisions ~
All the really important decisions in life-- I had no real knowledge what it was all about: Priesthood, Marriage, Children. All a blind leap.
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Grief in Our Town ~
Not enough room in the church for all his friends, many stood outside. Lukas was 18 years old, had just acquired his driver's licence. He was driving to the train station to pick up a friend when he lost control . . .
Monday, October 10, 2016
Autumn Yearning ~
I see little birds flying south in clusters. It is raining and cold. How will they ever make it over the Alps?
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Classroom ~
I taught her in the fifth grade. She wrote saying I made a great impression on her for the rest of her life, for I had told her once to brush her teeth every day. She had done that and has a set of teeth to this day that everyone admires.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Goings-on ~
I heard someone comparing the catastrophic political atmosphere with John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul. He saw it positively, as laying the ground for a spiritual recovery, once everything has been reduced to nothing . . .
Friday, September 02, 2016
De Diligendo Deo ~
God is Great— What do you do if your notion of God and Jesus conflict? The former seems for the most part confined by the latter.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Coming into Focus ~
With 80-plus finally coming to understand what a momentous, catastrophic event the First World War was.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Memory Fading ~
. . . Now I know why mother was irritated every time I wanted to play our do-you-remember game . . .
Monday, August 01, 2016
You are what you will ~
. . . I discover that it was my desires that regulated my advancement/lack of advancement in life. I never got beyond what I desired.
Sunday, July 24, 2016
With 80 Plus ~
The liberating awareness that there is really nothing we have to believe in . . . once we have learned to trust.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Mother ~
Came across this obituary in the newspaper this morning:
"For the world she was a nobody, for me she was the world. I had to let my mother go. My love and gratitude for her will only die when I die."
"For the world she was a nobody, for me she was the world. I had to let my mother go. My love and gratitude for her will only die when I die."
Monday, July 04, 2016
Disappointment ~
Drove 250 miles to Schwaebisch Hall just to see this painting. But, just five days before, it had been sent to Berlin on loan.
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Bounty ~
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