It is hard to be a Razorback fan, one minute you are on top of the world, and the next minute your Razorbacks have brought you back to reality with a gigantic thud. In case a Razorback fan thinks he can move on quickly to another sport, the Razorbacks wham you in the other cheek…

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What you see with your eyes shut is what counts.  — Lakota saying.   I was raised to close my eyes and bow my head when praying. But haven’t thought about why until I came across the words of the Lakota. I don’t remember what my parents or more likely my grandmother said to me…

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I thank my friend Rob for reminding me of this day and sending Richard Rohr’s meditation Suffering For Love, that tries to make sense out of suffering I cannot even comprehend such as the Massacre of the Innocents. I guess I need to go to seminary to understand why we have on the calendar a “Feast of…

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Leviticus 19:9 You shall not reap to the very edges of your field.   Even a long way back, there were thoughts and admonishments against taking it all, and not leaving something for the less fortunate. It also early evidence that conservation was alive and kicking before the times of “global warning” and fear of extinction. Literature…

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Yesterday, we celebrated the birth of Jesus who was born to dwell among us, and show us what separates us from God, what splits us from one another, and what divides us from ourselves. The world was literally turned upside down by his life and message. Today we are called to bring forth that seed…

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