desiring God … listening, waiting
Saturday, September 16, 2023 Memorial of Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs Nature all around me (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Last night at Randall’s Grocery a grasshopper flew , that buzzing little creature, and landed with a swoop right on the side of my car. I said hello,...
Friday, September 15, 2023 Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Praying with Mary Many mothers lose their babies and are sorrowful, full of sadness and grief, often the weeping, desperate kind of grief. Still it seems remarkable that Mary the mother of Jesus, would lose...
Posted on Sep 14, 2023
Thursday, September 14, 2023 Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Do you know more than men that are wise? No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. This week giant jets...
Posted on Sep 13, 2023
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 Memorial of Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) I lift my eyes up, to the mountains Rejoice and leap for joy! Your reward will be great in heaven. Yesterday Jasper cuddled up with Margaret mid-morning, and they read...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) In moments like these Brothers and sisters, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. Charlie and Tina Ice, who...
Posted on Sep 11, 2023
Monday, September 11, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) In school with Miles and Jasper It is Christ in you, the hope of glory. It is he whom we proclaim. Each time I have a symptom of heart problems, I am supposed to press a button on the front of...
Posted on Sep 10, 2023
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 10, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Revisiting my operating room with Miles and Jasper tagging along Brothers and sisters: owe nothing to anyone except to love one another. My new heart valve is made of cow tissue. Afternoon visitors were talking about this...
Saturday, September 9, 2023 Memorial of Saint Peter Claver (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Hospital stories God has now reconciled you in the Body of Christ through his death, to present you holy, without blemish, and irreproachable before him. Ashley brought me down in the widest wheelchair I’ve ever seen,...
Friday, September 8, 2023 Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Mothers and their babies You, Bethlehem, too small, but from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler, and he shall stand firm by the strength of the...
Posted on Sep 07, 2023
Thursday, September 7, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Long-sentenced visitors to Lake Wobegon Here is the longest sentence I’ve read in a long long time. Brothers and sisters: from the day we heard about you, we do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled...
