Archive for January, 2008
A little over three weeks ago, I was sitting in my office contemplating whether I should come in the next day and resign from my job. I was in a “bad place” physically, emotionally and spiritually and I felt like something needed to change in a big way.
The next morning I woke up to dramatic [...]
I am reading a book titled “The Silence of Mary.” In it, the author describes the total surrender in faith by Mary to the will of God. Even though she was visited by Gabriel, an emissary sent personally by the Father, she is still subject to the same silences of God and the questions that [...]
Like so many thousands of others I have been accosted by the dreaded chest cold. I usually go quite a few years between episodes so I tend to forget what they are all about. Now I remember. They are miserable!
What is really annoying about these types of illnesses is that you are not quite sick [...]
I sit here on a Sunday evening saying goodbye to another weekend and anticipating another week. My wife and I said the rosary together about two hours ago (at halftime of the football game to be honest) and it is a fitting way to prepare for the beginning of another weekly chapter of life.
It has [...]
Just a quick post to say that all remains well on the stomach and anxiety front. I am truly grateful to the Lord and especially for the intercession of his Blessed Mother. I have given myself to her and I have not been disappointed. Circumstances haven’t changed but, at least for the time being, I [...]
An amazing thing happened after I made my last post. I did what I could on the project and at about 8PM just decided, “that’s enough,” and I packed my things and went home. I had even made a decision that the next day I was likely going to go in to my boss and [...]
I am sitting here in my office on a Sunday evening staring at my computer screen trying to figure out what to put in a proposal to bid on designing our local chamber of commerce website. I have been staring at the screen for parts of two days. Altogether, I’ve written just a couple of [...]
