desiring God … listening, waiting
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Memorial of Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (St. Monica’s son) (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Shabbat – Our day of truce There are days, and yesterday was such a one in Austin, when simply breathing in deep fills me up inside just like...
Posted on Aug 27, 2024
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 Memorial of Saint Monica (Mother of St. Augustine) (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Echoes in the East Frio Canyon The Lord is king. He has made the world firm, not to be moved. Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice. Driving south on US...
Monday, August 26, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Living with God in divorce We boast of you regarding your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions you endure. My friend and I were talking about the how to not just be mindful, but actually put the...
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 25, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The gift of following Many of Jesus’ disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. In 1978 I read this and wondered, “Is this what I’m coming to?” Rev. Moon called his...
Saturday, August 24, 2024 Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Swimming stories He showed me Jerusalem coming down out of heaven, radiant, clear as crystal, twelve angels stationed at its twelve gates. The foundation for the city walls rested on twelve courses of stones, on which...
Friday, August 23, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Bones in the valley The hand of the Lord came upon me. And Ezekiel did not resist. He had left his priesthood in the temple far behind when he was deported to Babylon, and for decades in exile he excoriated the...
Posted on Aug 22, 2024
Wednesday, August 22, 2024 Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) John Donne, William Blake, Jeremiah and Ezekiel I will sprinkle clean water upon you and cleanse you from all your impurities and idols. I will give you a new heart and place...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 Memorial of Saint Pius X, Pope (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Who is pasturing whom? Should not shepherds, rather, pasture sheep? You have fed off their milk, worn their wool, and slaughtered the fatlings, but the sheep you have not pastured. And these are not just...
Posted on Aug 20, 2024
Tuesday August 20, 2024 Memorial of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Put your arms around the world Jesus Christ became poor although he was rich, so that by his poverty we might become rich. In his remarkable book The Naked Now, Richard...
Monday, August 19, 2024 Our 45th wedding anniversary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Our Sunday morning wedding What must I do to gain eternal life? In 1978 Margaret had finished her last seminary classes at Lincoln Christian Seminary and I was just leaving my two-year stint in the Unification Church....
