The question was reasonable enough: “Why do you put yourself through this?” a friend asked this morning, when he overheard me discussing last night’s SLU Billikens game with another friend as we exited church after early-morning Mass.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: The Dance
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Tags: Big Dance, Championship Week, College Basketball, Desire, Greatest Commandment, NCAA Tournament, SLU Billikens, Whole Heart, Whole Hearts
Today’s find: Vouchsafe
Vouchsafe: Say that word out loud, real fast, three times.
In point of fact, you’ll need to say it at least twice to get it right…because there are two accepted pronunciations for the obscure term. Three, if you count the way our deacon said it at the Lenten prayer service my wife and I attended last night.
Today’s find: Raqa
I sure hope the Sanhedrin isn’t in session. Otherwise, my brother and I might have a little ‘splaining’ to do.
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Tags: Aramaic, Blockhead, Brother, Brotherly love, Imbecile, Incarnation, Lost In Translation, Raqa, Translation
Today’s find: Low-down
Our grandson, I notice, takes a unique approach to savoring rain.
Today’s find: Salad Days
It took a bit more effort to whip up my lunch today – and the irony was not lost on me.
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Tags: Abstinence, Fasting, Fasting and Abstinence, Lent, Lent 2018, Mortification, Salad Days, Tuna, Tuna Salad
Today’s find: Flu
As flu bugs go, my bout this past week was decidedly on the mild side.
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Tags: Flu, Jesus cures, Kairos Prison Ministry, leper, Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today’s find: Excavation
The specter of heavy equipment at work was enough to stop me in my tracks a few weeks back.
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Tags: Bulldozer, Daily Wages, Dozer, Excavation, Excavator, Hireling, Job, Track Loader, waiting on wages
Today’s find: Winter Rules
The chance to play a mid-winter round of golf stirred up some fretfulness in me, I noticed. Continue reading
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Tags: Anxiety, Forest Hills Country Club, Golf, Mid-Winter Golf, Midwinter Golf, Swing thoughts, Unclean spirit, Unclean spirits, Winter Rules
Today’s find: Rivers
Which river did they pick, I wonder? The thought occurred today, as we celebrate a seminal moment in the life of the early church – the feast of the conversion of St. Paul.
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Tags: Abana, Ananias, Castlewood State Park, Conversion of St. Paul, Damascus, Meramec, Meramec River, Pharpar, Rivers
Today’s find: Queue
Twice during this past week, I felt the feebleness of waiting in queue.
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Tags: Blood Drive, Call of the Fishermen, Control, DMV, Limbic Cortex, Lizard Brain, Queue, Red Cross blood drive, State License Bureau, Surrender
