desiring God … listening, waiting
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 27, 2024JT_Where the Wild Things Are (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Chaplain in the fall Every priest is taken from men. He is able to deal patiently with the ignorant and erring, for he himself is beset by weakness. In this story – an...
Saturday, October 26, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Prius adventures Let us attain the full stature of Christ, so that we may no longer be infants. Let us live the truth in love. Back in Austin with our new sports-car-like Prius. Miles, Jasper and I took a trip to...
Traveling mercies … this is the last day I’ll post a devotion from the same day in 2020. Blessings to you! Sunday, October 25, 2020 (today’s lectionary) Body parts Jack and I started a puzzle, one hundred pieces of the human body. He left before we finished it, and yesterday I got tied...
Day two of traveling back to Austin. And day two of devotions from the same day in 2020 … Saturday, October 24, 2020 (today’s lectionary) Journey Our grandkids are 11, 8, nearly 4 and 1. And aren’t they growing fast, and growing up? We are really proud of them. We’ve run much of...
Traveling again, back to Austin this time, in a brand new Prius. Today through Friday the devotions will come from the same day in 2020. Another election year! Friday, October 23, 2020 (today’s lectionary) One Bear with one another through love. Strive to preserve your unity in one body and one spirit. You...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Poetry Jesus said, “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.” In college I learned to love poetry, especially the dark...
Monday, October 21, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Ephesians Raise your hand if your mind slips easily through the intricacies of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. It’s tough for me. Each chapter has enough troubles of its own. Every time I read I’m entranced by the beautiful words, and...
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Café Diner, late night, 7th Avenue and West 11th Street. Think of Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” a quiet rainy evening on gradually abandoned moonless streets, endless wide window looking into what counts as home for some of the...
Saturday, October 19, 2024 Memorial of Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Prophets Do not worry about what your defense will be, or about what you are to say. Rabbi Abraham Heschel’s 20th century transcendent prose broke through the everyday...
Friday, October 18, 2024 Feat of Saint Luke, Evangelist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Food The harvest is abundant. I’ve had two food events this week. The first one came when my doctor set me up with some injectables called Mounjaro (similar I guess to Ozempic) in an effort to...
