I actually know next to nothing about swimming. While I can swim and won’t drown if tossed into a pool, I tend to thrash more than glide. I’m usually exhausted after swimming 10 feet. The other thing that always bothered me about swimming is that I have trouble floating… after a few seconds I tend … Continue reading “The Take A Breath Moment” →

Years ago I remember our girls talking about their BFF…”best friend forever”. Who’s your BFF?  Oh, Lulu is my BFF….. really, I thought Lulu was Mabel’s BFF. Hmmm. I would smile knowing that often the BFF in 2nd grade is different than the BFF in 5th grade, 8th grade, college….etc. The scripture speaks hundreds of times about friendship; trying … Continue reading Jesus Is Our “BFF” →

Back in 1970 Judy and I took a belated honeymoon trip to Mexico. We flew into Mexico City and saw many of the sights including Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine. We rented a “VW bug” from Hertz and drove through Cuernavaca and Taxco to Acapulco. We stayed in this incredible house overlooking the  famous La Quebrada Cliffs … Continue reading “Wow…Are You Kidding Me….” →

Sometimes it’s easy to fake yourself out. You think about or say something and you think you’ve actually done it. “You know with this new diet I can lose 30 pounds in 30 days. I’m going to get a new wardrobe; people will start calling me string bean”. I begin thinking I’ve already lost the … Continue reading “ Ready ??? ” →

Sometimes it’s hard to be hopeful. I’ve been a St. Louis Cardinal fan since I was a baby. I remember listening to their games with my dad in the early 1950’s from southeast Missouri. After the Cardinals celebrated my birth in 1946 by winning the World Series, the Redbirds took an 18 year sabbatical. During … Continue reading “Have Hope” →

Sometimes I wake up “out of peace. My feet haven’t hit the floor and I’m already a bit nervous or concerned or even anxious. Maybe it was caused by a dream I had, or a movie I watched, or the spicy food I ate. I used to have a recurring dream about forgetting about a … Continue reading “ Yikes…” →

Language can be a funny thing. While it is meant to communicate truth, often it doesn’t…….  sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. It can be powerful and helpful or destructive.  When I was a kid, I remember going to get some new pants; the salesman said, “hmmmm, I think he’ll take a HUSKY.” I knew what he … Continue reading “He’ll Take A HUSKY” →

Halftime is an important time in a football game. The teams have played half the game; they’ve done some things well and some things poorly. The score may be close, or it might be a ”blowout”.  Well, it seems like we’re about at halftime in our battle against the CoronaVirus. It may look like we’re losing..… … Continue reading It’s Halftime…What’s The Score? →

Fr. Carroll was a good friend of mine. He was a good friend to many people… young and old. We loved Fr. Carroll...my wife, our children, our grandchildren, and so many others. He was a good priest. He had a twinkle in his eye, like he knew something that you didn’t know. I bet Jesus had … Continue reading “Thou Art A Priest Forever” →

Most people have heard of the Wedding Feast of Cana. Apparently it was a pretty large wedding. At some point the wine runs out and Mary lets her son Jesus know there’s a problem. (John 2:1-11) When discussing this wedding, Archbishop Fulton Sheen suggested “it was very likely that it was one of Mary's relatives who was … Continue reading That’s A Lot Of Wine” →