For you always have the poor with you — Matthew 26:11. Jesus reminds us that poverty for some will always be with us. So will our obligation to make sure that no one is in need. No one should lack for food, shelter, or medical care. The care  of our neighbors does not fall on God’s…

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Today we celebrate St. Peter and St. Paul. Two guys who got it wrong. Peter due to his lack of courage and Paul who  was over zealous. Yet, in the end, they became the two pillars of Christianity. We all get it wrong from time-to-time. The issue for each of us is not whether we…

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One thing is for certain is that as one gets older, illness takes more out of you. I grew up with adages such as “you can’t make the club in the tub,” “Hubbell you need to learn the difference between pain and injury,” and “chicks love scars.” Things have changed thank goodness, but as I…

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You have noted my lamentation, put my tears in your bottle; — Psalm 56:8. Almost every morning Suzy is  up before me. When I come down the stairs she usually asks, “Are you okay?” She is right to ask, my arthritis and the treatment take a lot out of me, but I usually answer no matter…

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Be strong and  courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. — Joshua 1:9b. In Ruth 1:16–17, Ruth tells Naomi, her Israelite mother-in-law, “Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you…

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