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Today’s find: Pearls
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Tags: 40th anniversary, Hotel Ignacio, Kuiper Belt, Paradise Partners, Pearl of great price, Pluto, SLU
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Today’s find: Ferguson
It’s only about 530 miles from the St. Louis metro area…to Gatlinburg, TN…but five years ago this weekend, I remember thinking it seemed like a million.
Today’s find: Awake, again.
On this, the Feast of the Transfiguration, thought I might re-post a reflection I wrote a bit earlier this year…when we were blessed to visit the very spot where Jesus dazzled…even as some key disciples dithered. Here’s what I wrote back in mid-Lent:
Perhaps Peter should have traveled by taxi up to the top of Mount Tabor. That experience certainly would have kept him from falling asleep.
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Tags: Church of the Transfiguration, Holy Land Pilgrimage, Lent, Lent 2019, Transfiguration
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Today’s find: Deadwood
We took a short hike at Castlewood the other day, and by the end I found myself wandering – in a bit of wonder – around Colossae.
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Tags: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Castlewood State Park, Colossians, Deadwood, Meramec River
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Today’s find: Arnie & Abraham
It occurs to me that I might enjoy playing a round of golf with Abraham, the biblical patriarch.
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Tags: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Abraham, Arnie, Arnold Palmer, Boone Valley, Boone Valley Golf Club
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Today’s find: Fertile ground
It wasn’t a flash mob, exactly…but I had to wonder what the locals thought as they strolled by Ss. Peter & Paul parish in downtown Waterloo, IL last evening.
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Tags: ACTS Retreats, Good seed, Kairos Prison Ministry, Parable of the Sower
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Today’s find: No show
‘You got it all wrong.’
This uncomfortable notion turned out to be my main take-away (and perhaps the greatest blessing) of our visit a few months back to the Tel Arad National Park in Israel.
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Tags: First Temple, Jerusalem, No Show, Second Temple, Tel Arad
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Today’s find: Moonshot
We found a piece of treasure a couple of years ago, my brothers and I, as we rooted around the bedroom where we’d grown up.
Today’s find: Neighbor
Is it enough?
The question popped briefly into my consciousness yesterday, as we spent some time ministering inside the prison.
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Tags: Compassion, Good Samaritan, Kairos Prison Ministry, Menard, Mercy, Neighbor
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Today’s find: Slaked
A new piece of liturgical “art” appeared in my parish church this week – and it filled my heart with wonder.
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Tags: Fourteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Holy Water, John 4, Living Water, Luke 10, Slaked
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