desiring God … listening, waiting
Posted on Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Daniel reads the writing on the wall When the gold and silver vessels taken from the house of God in Jerusalem had been brought in, and while the king, his lords, his wives and entertainers were drinking wine from them, they...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Days of reckoning In the movie business, days of reckoning mean big bucks. So blockbusters about the last days pour out of Hollywood. But they pass us by like whispers in the night, signifying nothing. Nation will rise against nation, and...
Monday, November 27, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Cats and dogs Patrick McDonnell, who has not eaten animal since 1990 when he was 34, watched his comic strip Mutts become syndicated four years later. His dog and cat are humane, warm, peace-loving and wise. But lately Patrick has become...
Posted on Nov 26, 2023
Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, November 26, 2023 Beginning of the last week of Ordinary Time and then comes Advent The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Thoughts about these days, and the last days too The last enemy to be...
Posted on Nov 25, 2023
Saturday, November 25, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Saturday thoughts on prayer They tell us to pray without ceasing. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart; I will declare all your wondrous...
Posted on Nov 24, 2023
Friday, November 24, 2023 Memorial of Saint Andrew Dung-Lac, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) And now, on the day after All day we cooked and ate, along with family in Austin and friends from Kazakhstan, who celebrate their one year anniversary in America next month. We...
Thursday, November 23, 2023 Thanksgiving Day in the USA (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Being thankful Emily Dickinson wrote a poem. I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! They’d advertise – you know! I hope at our Thanksgiving...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 Memorial of Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, Dallas, Texas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A woman and her sons It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips by the king, to force...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Three older men I suppose, at age 74, that I might be midway between the old man Eleazar, age 90, and the middle-aged man Zaccheus. Reflecting on my own 3 AMs, I...
Posted on Nov 20, 2023
Monday, November 20, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Trouble, trouble, trouble In the second century BCE, Antiochus IV, a Greek king over Israel and Jerusalem, erected a horrible abomination upon the altar of burnt offerings. Alexander the Great died and his kingdom was divided into four parts, as Daniel...
