Things were a bit different at our men’s faith-sharing group this week: Ron Peters was with us only in spirit.
Today’s find: Ordinary Witness
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Tags: 1 Corinthians, ACTS Retreat, ACTS Retreats, Foster Parents, Imitation of Christ, Ron Peters, Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Witness
Today’s find: OT
Perhaps a bit to my Sweetie’s regret, I’m having a little trouble making the hand-off of our handsome Golf League Trophy.
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Tags: 2020 Golf League Champions, 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Golf League, OT, St. Joe Golf League
Today’s find: Plastics & humility
My fancy new dual-body tumbling composter, I notice, is constructed primarily of plastic. This is, in a sense, a vinyl-clad irony: In an attempt to reduce my environmental footprint, my go-to tool has created demand for yet more plastic.
Which is to say, life is complicated.
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Tags: End times, Jonah, Plastics, Prophet Jonah, Third Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s find: Thunder
I must have a lot of time on my hands these days, because every once in a while…I find myself wondering why Jesus chose Galilee as headquarters for his public ministry.
Sure, Galilee is a pleasant enough place (as backwaters go). But the world brims with far more beautiful settings. So why not pick one of them as “home base”?
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Tags: Baptism of Jesus, Baptism of the Lord, Jordan River, River Jordan, Sea of Galilee, Thunder
Today’s find: A path forward
Clearly, in his new book Let Us Dream, Pope Francis wasn’t speaking specifically about America’s 2020 political traumas, because the book was written many months before the tawdry events that have recently scarred so many of our cities – including the capital.
No, he wasn’t talking just about us. Even so, he seems well familiar with the lethal disease that currently affects our political discourse.
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Tags: Contraposition, Let Us Dream, Pope Francis, Synodality
Today’s find: Visio Divina
Gerri and I had a rather unique perspective on what was designed as a visual meditation during our New Year’s Eve retreat at King’s House.
We’d agreed to be “Readers” for the late-evening prayer service – and as such, our behind-the-ambo position meant we saw only the backside of a soul-stirring iconostasis.
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Tags: Epiphany, Epiphany 2021, King's House, King's House Retreat Center, Magi, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve Retreat, Visio Divina
Today’s find: Compost
It remains to be seen whether I will master the (surprisingly complex) process of turning organic waste…into fertile soil.
But I have discovered that my fancy new “HotFrog Dual Body Tumbling Composter” makes for a fine way to entertain grandsons.
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Tags: 2020 Pandemic, Annus Horribilis, Compost, COVID Pandemic, Happy New Year, HotFrog Composter, New Year 2021
Today’s find: Christmas Conjunction
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.
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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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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With Us Still 