Originally Posted June 9, 2020 If you’ve ever had a window seat flying into Newark airport, you will see below thousands of houses, big and small, one after another, it doesn’t seem to end…. millions of people. It makes me feel very small. I don’t care if I’m flying coach or first class or in a … Continue reading “Will We Be Lost In The Shuffle?” →

How many wonderful and beautiful songs have been composed over the years…so many categories from religious to popular, classical, folk .... famous composers like Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Handel, Gershwin, …. wonderful movie composers like John Williams (Star Wars), Ennio Morricone (Mission), James Horner (Braveheart). Then there are composers known to only a few… perhaps a … Continue reading “Gobble, Gobble, Gobble….” →

Whenever I’m in the middle of a big project, I tend to look to the time when it will be completed… then I can relax … I won’t have the pressure and anxiety  that can come with making something happen.  I still remember being in the middle of final exams in college…. usually it was a … Continue reading “Have Joy In The Midst of Trials” →

Wow, we’re in the last week of the year. I always like the readings for the ending of the church year… our sights set on finishing the race…being ready…. the Lord is coming… the great feast of Christ The King.  Be Careful Of The "ROAD" There was a beautiful reading from St. Columban today, an … Continue reading “Let’s Not Love The Road…” →

This was a very nice Sunday.. up a little later, fresh coffee and some prayer and then off to Mass. Coming home we had our normal Sunday brunch of poached eggs, bacon, fruit…a little more coffee. I love Sunday brunch. We then took a nice walk, bundled up against the windy day. Arriving home I … Continue reading “Time To Take A Little Break” →

Originally Posted On June 8, 2020 It took me quite a while to get in the habit of going to the gym. I hated going to the gym … but after a time, I developed somewhat of a habit. A habit is “a way of behaving that is repeated so often it no longer involves conscious thought”. Well, … Continue reading “Not Going To The Gym” →

Originally Posted June 5, 2020 Boy, I really have to guard my mind these days. It’s so easy to go down a path that focuses on all the desperate things that are happening in the world…the Corona Virus, the riots in cities across the country, the “usual cast of characters” that have been around for … Continue reading “Luke, You Got To Get Your Mind Right” →

God is so good to me. I am so blessed. I have  many wonderful people in my life. My mind is full of memories of his goodness to me. "Man's Best Friend ???" A number of years ago I remember praying on the Sunday morning of a Men’s Retreat. I found myself distracted and feeling not … Continue reading “I Like Dogs, But….” →

Is there such a thing as “good grief”? What’s good about grief? It seems to be an oxymoron… a self-contradicting word. Do you recall people speaking about “joyful sadness”??? Sadness, grief, and sorrow are the opposite of joy…. opposite emotions…opposite motivators...opposite realities.  A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is … Continue reading “Good Grief” →

Today’s reading from the book of Revelation is one of the toughest we can ever read.  "I know your works, you are neither cold nor hot, but because you are lukewarm, I will spew you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you … Continue reading “We’re Not Off the Hook” →