We stepped out onto our deck the other day, and saw something unusual in the gloaming: a celestial event some 800 years in the making.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Rocha
Late have I loved you, Sam Rocha.
But thanks…for becoming quite an unexpected gift in my Advent prayer life.
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Tags: 4th Sunday of Advent, Advent 2020, Late to Love, Psalm 89, Sam Rocha, St. Augustine
Today’s find: Rumbustious
As Advent terminology goes, I suspect “rumbustious” wouldn’t make most people’s Top 10 list.
Heck, “rumbustious” probably doesn’t make the list any time of year, at least not for an American like me.
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Tags: Advent 2020, Fr. James Alison, Gaudete Sunday, Incarnation, King's House, King's House Retreat Center, Rumbustious
Today’s find: Obstacle course
Normally, I’d expect a walk in the woods to provide comfort.
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Tags: Advent, Echo Bluff State Park, Fat Bike, Isaiah, Obstacle course, Painter Ridge Trail, Second Sunday of Advent
Today’s find: Night watch
Midnight came early last evening. Or so it seemed.
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Tags: Advent, Advent 2020, Darkness, First Sunday of Advent, Gloaming, Marana tha!, Maranatha, Night watch
Today’s find: New Year
Not a moment too soon, this confounding year comes to a conclusion this week.
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Tags: Christ The King, Covid-19, Feast of Christ The King, King of the Universe, Lord of the Cosmos
Today’s find: Still falling
Autumns come, and autumns go. Year on year, decade after decade. Even so, I can never seem to get the ratio correct: “leaf bag” to “actual leaf drop”.
Today’s find: Gazing
From our grandkids’ perspective, the transformation now appears to be complete. And it is wonderful in their eyes.
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Tags: All Saints Day, Gazing, Great Pumpkin, Halloween, Halloween 2020
Today’s find: In the hunt
When the skunk scurried across the first fairway, perhaps I should have taken it as an omen.
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Tags: 2020 Golf League Champions, 30th Sunday In Ordinary Time, Golf League, Missouri Bluffs, Skunk, Skunked
Today’s find: 4-Irony
Here’s a great irony: I love to play a game – golf – that I am only marginally competent at playing.
And then there’s this: With each passing year, it seems, I surrender a bit more of my (already congenitally-limited) skills to time’s relentless march.
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Tags: 28th Sunday In Ordinary Time, 4-Iron, Driver, Golf, Hybrid, Irony
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