Lent, done right, is hard work. There are times when one says, “I’m not sure I can continue this sacrifice”, or, “I don’t have the time to pray, or do community service, or study like I need to do.” Lent is just like any other time, where the demands of our daily life overwhelm us.…
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Nothing Is Stable
There is nothing stable under heaven — James Baldwin. This last year is an example of Baldwin’s words. The only thing that was certain was uncertainty. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, it did, and when we thought there was a light of day on the horizon, a new darkness appeared. It was a year…
Dancing Before the Game Is Over
You don’t dance until the game is over — An anonymous quote repeated by coaches all over the country. I know I am old school when it comes to football. I come by it naturally. My father believed in the single wing and thought it was “bad football” to pass the ball on your own side…
Body and Soul
How much our mental life is knit up with our corporeal frame? — William James. The above is a great question for your Lenten studies and meditation. Who among us doesn’t have our mental emotions affect our physical body? Yesterday I mentioned the phrase “Tug at our heartstrings.” Is that a real physical response? Which…
Reach Out And Touch Someone
Probably my children and and certainly my grandchildren don’t remember the time when it cost extra to call someone long distance. (And long distance meant in most cases as short a distance as the next county). I remember my grandmother admonishing me not to talk too long on the phone when we made an annual…