“As we plunge ahead to build empires and race for supremacy we should stop and listen to [the female] song of life. For without the female there is no life.” — American Indian Saying   How true my brothers. Women were created by God with the ability to produce life. If God was so made at…

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Luis suggests we strive in our faith for “where the light shines brightest.” The problem for most of us is the light vacillates from bright to dark, from full to dim, much like the phases of the moon. True the moon/our faith is rarely full and totally bright, but it does have many phases, and…

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Cleaning out my Lenten files I ran across the following note I made about practicing awareness: Several times a day ask yourself: Am I aware? What am I aware of? How am I relating to it? How is my body being impacted?

I know I am supposed to be on sabbatical this week, but I read an article about Woodstock and wanted to share a few thoughts: Its been almost fifty years since the three days of music, mud, and magic occurred in Woodstock, NY.  Although most of the stories are about epic crowds, wonderful music, drugs,…

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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.– Eugene Delacroix   I am probably the only person who is beating themselves up today for not keeping a better more perfect Lent. I take solace however in Delacroix’s words and the knowledge that trying to be perfect distances us from God.   …

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