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Today’s find: Scraps

Posted on June 14, 2020 by John Schroeder

Lately, there’ve been times when I’ve felt the past three months have seemed like years.

Three years…or thirty.

Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan, Cardinal Van Thuan, Corpus Christi, Feast of Corpus Christi, scraps, The Road of Hope

Today’s find: Pandemic Icon

Posted on June 4, 2020 by John Schroeder

Here’s certainly among the most unexpected – and uplifting – blessings of our COVID-19 period: I learned a great deal about the writing (or painting) of religious icons.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Covid-19, Icon, Iconography, King's House, King's House Retreat Center, Our Lady of the Pandemic, Pandemic, Pandemic Icon

Today’s find: Weathered

Posted on May 26, 2020 by John Schroeder

A most unusual storm derailed a family tradition yesterday, and sent us scurrying for safety.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Bourbeuse River, Covid-19, Feast of the Ascension, Franklin County, Memorial Day, Pandemic, Reason for our hope, storm, Storms, Weathered

Today’s find: COVID-19 Communion

Posted on May 19, 2020 by John Schroeder

The Psalmist had a message for me – for us – as we gathered in the pews this morning. Which, you’d have to agree, is quite a trick considering that the verses were written 2,500 years or so ago.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: All things new, Bandits, Covid Communion, Covid-19, Jailer, Paul and Silas

Today’s find: Grand Marshall

Posted on May 16, 2020 by John Schroeder

We had a lot of company, I discovered, when we hit the pavement the other evening for a post-dinner walk around the neighborhood.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Covid-19, Grand Marshall, Living Water, Parade route, Sixth Sunday of Easter

Today’s find: Lava project

Posted on May 10, 2020 by John Schroeder

Maybe it was the shaky WiFi connection, but I’m not sure I ever convinced our grandkids (during a recent FaceTime chat} that Gramps was “planting a volcano” in the backyard.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 1 Peter, Capstone, Cornerstone, Fifth Sunday of Easter, Landscaping, Lava project, Lava rock, Living stones, Planting a volcano

Today’s find: Clodhopper

Posted on May 6, 2020 by John Schroeder

Day 47 of “shelter-in-place”: in which “side yard” becomes “garden plot.” And it becomes apparent to the Little One that he has lost his footing.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Acts of the Apostles, Clodhopper, Covid-19, Easter Season, Garden Spot, Pandemic, Preparing the Soil, Roto-Tiller

Generally, my wife Gerri has found better ways than I have…to make our pandemic “downtime” productive. Sorting through stuff we’ve stored for ages, for example. And yeah: turning all those trays of slide transparencies into digital files we might actually take the trouble to view once again.

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