David Sandel

Wednesday, September 6, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement today, but not in our Coleman tent Perhaps as you read this I am waiting in the pre-op room, or I am being wheeled along the hall, into the patient’s elevator, down into the surgical area of...

Tuesday, September 5, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) You yourselves know very well Concerning times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in...

Monday, September 4, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Friends are friends forever James Finley, Mirabai Starr and Earl Fields just won’t let me go. Their thoughts and example, living their contemplative lives, enrich and inspire me. First Finley: If we do not meditate there will be no meditation in...

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 3, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) You seduced me, and I was seduced Pope Francis flew over China on his way to Mongolia last week. His custom is to send a note to the leader of those countries he flies over. To China’s...

Saturday, September 2, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Maggiano’s on a Friday night Ashley has worked at Maggiano’s for 18 months. Thinking of our son Marc’s work as a server, we left a big tip for her after dinner last night with our friends. She told us when she...

Friday, September 1, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Life together We visited our friends George and Anne, in what George calls the “smallest apartment in Austin.” They were married at the end of April and are very happy. They will be having a baby at the end of March....

Thursday, August 31, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) It’s only a paper moon Jesus said to his disciples, “Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. At an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” Around noon in Marble...

Wednesday, August 30, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) God at work In receiving the word of God from hearing us, you received it not as the word of men but as it truly is, the word of God, which is now at work in you who believe. James Finley,...

Tuesday, August 29, 2023 Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) On the death of John the Baptist Thomas Keating, popularizer of the Christian meditation practice called “centering prayer”, considered how difficult it is to talk about God. “Who is God?” warns us...

Monday, August 28, 2023 Memorial of Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) O Lord, take delight in us In God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, grace to you and peace. Sing to the Lord a new song, let us sing for...