Dust flew yesterday at Mom’s place, and I was secretly grateful for the airborne irritants.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Keys & Kenosis
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Tags: kenosis, Keys to the Kingdom, Letting go, Moving Day, On This Rock, Peter
Today’s find: Exposure
Next time, I’ll know better: Don’t trust the iPhone camera to adequately capture a once-in-a-lifetime event.
Today’s find: Tyre and Sidon
More and more often these days, I notice that I feel like a stranger in my own country.
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Tags: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Canaanite Woman, Child of God, Doxxing, xenophobia
Today’s find: Match play
It’s a pretty safe bet that Gerri did not expect we’d spend our 38th anniversary on a golf course.
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Tags: Golf, Links to LaSalle, Match Play, Pevely Farms, Walking on Water, Wedding Anniversary
Today’s find: Oddity
I did a double-take as soon as I saw the bottle.
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Tags: Coca-Cola, El Toluco, Native place, Oddity, Prophet Without Honor, Taqueria, Transfiguration
Today’s find: Done deal
Word came yesterday that there’s a signed contract to sell Mom’s house. A few contingencies still to be met, sure: But it appears this deal is just about done…putting the wraps on the search for a buyer that began well over a year ago.
The news wasn’t entirely good in my estimation.
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Tags: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Done deal, downsizing, Gospel of Matthew, Kingdom of heaven, Letting go, Pearl of great price
Today’s find: Weedless
The beautiful flower bed saddened me enormously…and instantaneously.
Today’s find: Fallow
Didn’t do much writing over the past 10 days. Didn’t write anything, in fact, except a text message or two…and a few emails…during our leisurely circumnavigation of Lake Erie. And I have to say, it felt pretty darn good to shift my brain into neutral for the span of our vacation. Continue reading
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Tags: 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Fallow, Fallow time, Great Lakes, Isaiah, Lake Erie, Niagara Falls, Ohio, Ontario
Today’s find: Niagara
“Truly, the Lord is in this place, although I did not know it.” Genesis 28
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Today’s find: Necessary splendor
I’m pretty sure my grandchildren had a ‘Jesus’ moment the other day.
With Us Still 