I’ve told this story before. The story of sitting on the riverbank of the Mississippi at the White House in Saint Louis, Missouri. How that the sun was shinning, the birds singing, the river flowing it’s long easy strides. That I was sitting there meditating on being thankful and howContinue Reading
Many years ago I watched this movie about hackers in which one of the young men quoted the bible: “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”Continue Reading
Lately, as most of you know, I’ve been having some kidney issues. As part of the treatment for this 10mm kidney stone my doctor suggested I invert myself to 45 degrees every night after having consumed sixteen ounces of water. They already took the step of doing lithotripsy to breakContinue Reading
We have a tendency as people to draw in on ourselves, to leave the outside world to wallow in it’s own miseries while we protect our own. One of the churches I went to growing up had that sort of notion built into their theology of what they felt aContinue Reading
Tomorrow’s readings for daily mass contain a hard message, a challenging message. During Advent it is important that we get those challenges to the way we are walking our faith. All to often, when we are honest with ourselves, we are failing to walk the walk and talk the talk. Continue Reading