I’m beginning to see clearly – with a bit of “2020 vision” – some things that were not at all obvious to me in 1975.
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Today’s find: Disguised
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Tags: 2020 vision, Disguised, Gospel of John, John the Baptist, Lamb of God, Ordinary Day, Ordinary Time
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Today’s find: Gift bearers
The bowling balls were bouncing a bit at Harvest Lanes yesterday.
Bouncing…or thunking: take your pick. But certainly not rolling, not in any sense that an experienced kegler could appreciate.
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Tags: Birthday party, Bowling, Epiphany 2019, Epiphany of the Lord, Magi, Three Wise Men
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Today’s find: Resolutions
On retreat at King’s House this New Year’s Eve, where Fr. Mark Dean, OMI, has already blessed me with this thought-provoking observation…
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Today’s find: Keep walking
Spend a little time with the Joseph sketched in scripture, and you quickly discover this: He was a man on the move.
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Tags: Chrismas 2019, Give Us This Day, Holy Family, Out of Egypt, Sepphoris, Valerie Schultz
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Today’s find: Mel Tormé
It was Ellen, mother of the one-year-old, who first noticed: We were being blessed this year to celebrate a ‘Mel Tormé Christmas’.
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Tags: Christmas 2019, Christmas Celebration, Matriarch, Mel Tormé, The Christmas Song, The Velvet Fog
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Today’s find: The Star of Christmas
Ever notice? This time of year, the stars seem especially bright. It’s almost as if the sky is clearer…and the heavens are closer to earth… than they are in the summertime.
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Today’s find: Butter
After a recent trip to the grocery store, it appeared that we had bitten off more than we could chew.
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Tags: Advent, Advent 2019, Butter, Fourth Sunday of Advent
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Today’s find: Ancient blessings
Slipping in almost unnoticed, like a jolly old gift-bearer, the ‘O Antiphons’ arrive in the days just before Christmas.
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Tags: Advent, Advent 2019, O Antiphons, O Radiant Dawn, O Wisdom
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Today’s find: Desert trip
I went to an Advent ‘Evening of Reflection’ the other night, and a Shakespeare class broke out.
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Tags: Gaudete Sunday, Macbeth, Masada, Qumran, Shakespeare, Third Sunday of Advent
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Today’s find: Dog fight
There’s a part of me that’s inclined to think Isaiah might profit (ahem!) from spending a little time in my neighborhood.
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Tags: Abu Ghosh, Advent, Advent 2019, Dog fight, Encouragement, Endurance, Holy Land, Isaiah, Second Sunday of Advent
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