With Us Still

Today’s find: Mousetrap

Posted on January 23, 2022 by John Schroeder

Who’s the Big Cheese around here? Not Gramps, apparently…

Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Body of Christ, Mousetrap game, Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Week of Christian Unity

Today’s find: Fulfillment

Posted on January 16, 2022 by John Schroeder

On any given day in recent weeks, I’ve noticed that our kitchen island can become a fulfillment center.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Wedding at Cana

Today’s find: Back in the flow

Posted on January 9, 2022 by John Schroeder

The foyer staircase is about to lose its holiday gleam. The mantle, too. And I don’t want to even think about how dull the “Christmas tree” corner of our family room is about to become.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Baptism of the Lord, Ordinary Time

Today’s find: Epiphany of emptiness

Posted on January 2, 2022 by John Schroeder

This was definitely not on my list of potential New Year’s resolutions: “Have breakfast with a young man from Zambia.”

And yet, praise the Lord, I can already cross it off – done and done!

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: New Year's Resolutions

Today’s find: Shadow space

Posted on December 31, 2021 by John Schroeder

My smart-phone provided a saving grace in the pre-dawn gloom on this, the last day of 2021.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Happy New Year

Today’s find: Star of Wonder

Posted on December 24, 2021 by John Schroeder

Ever notice?

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Christmas, Christmas 2021, Star of Wonder, The Word Made Flesh

Today’s find: Making haste

Posted on December 19, 2021 by John Schroeder

The dust-bunnies began quivering in fear around our place yesterday: Out came the vac…and the mop…and even a scrub-brush or two…as preparations began in earnest for us to welcome guests this week and next.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Advent 2021, Fourth Week of Advent