I wasn’t at the end of my rope [or string] the other day. Not even close. This, even though the environment for kite-flying seemed ideal – a brisk steady breeze, punctuated by the occasional muscular gust.
Posts Tagged With: Grace
Today’s find: Ace
‘Ace’ rhymes with ‘grace’…or so I was reminded earlier this week, when my ‘baby brother’ Phil carded a hole-in-one at Franklin County Country Club.
I’m pleased as punch for him. I’m also jealous as hell.
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Tags: Ace, Grace, Hole In One, Light of the world, Low Net 30, Personal Best, Rhymes with Grace
Today’s find: Not a typo
Sometimes, the ‘News’ is so ‘Good’ that it requires a second take.
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Tags: Grace, Jeremiah, Not a typo, Overflow, Prophet Jeremiah, Romans 5, Typo
Today’s find: Error-filled fumble fest
Sometimes, grace peeks through under the oddest circumstances.
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Tags: Cookies For Kairos, Errors, Grace, Kairos Prison Ministry, Loaves and fishes, St. Louis Cardinals
Today’s find: Mercy
It seems an odd choice, for Pope Francis to make today’s feast the starting point for the Jubilee of Mercy.
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Tags: Grace, Immaculate Conception, Jubliee of Mercy, Mercy, Mother of Mercy, Pope Francis, prevenient grace
Today’s find: The Links
I gave half-a-thought the other day to pulling up stakes and moving to China. The impetus was a story I read online, noting that (technically), golf is illegal there.
So moving to China seemed like a reasonable solution to me – a way to end my obsession with a game I’ve struggled to enjoy of late. Continue reading
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Tags: Aberdeen Golf Club, Driver, Golf, Golf Links, Golf Swing, Grace, Links, Putt
Today’s find: Half-moon Edger
I was about 20 minutes into the 25-year warranty on my brand-spanking-new half-moon edging spade…when the first crack appeared in the upper reaches of the blade.
‘Uh-oh,’ I thought. ‘This is not good.’
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Tags: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Grace, Half-moon edger, Hardware, Reconciliation, Sacrament of Anointing, sacraments
Today’s find: Higher call
Sometimes, you think you’ve got the path forward all figured out – only to discover that you don’t wind up where you expected to be.
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Tags: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Forgiveness, Grace, Higher Call, Path forward
Today’s find: Grace v. karma
Bad choices usually have dire consequences, I get that. But where does that leave us on the matter of grace?
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Tags: Center for Action and Contemplation, Grace, Karma, Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism, Richard Rohr
Today’s find: Year of grace
New Year’s Eve: What a great time to be reminded, as St. John writes in the gospel passage we heard at Mass today, ‘from his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace…’
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Tags: Grace, Happy New Year, New Year 2014, Steadfast Spirit 2013, With Us Still
With Us Still 