Archive for March, 2010
After posting such a desperate plea last week I feel that I have an obligation to the wonderful people that took the time to leave a message of hope and a promise of prayer to provide some sort of update. Nothing would make me happier than to say that things are much better now and [...]
Dear Friends,
I am reaching out to you for prayer. The unfortunate thing about this request is that, while I believe in the power of prayer, I am not optimistic. That attitude pretty much goes hand-in-hand with the reason for the prayer request. I have plunged into a deep and quite serious depression. Of course, the [...]
I know that the world is filled with thousands of truly evil individuals who have inflicted great physical and emotional harm on people all over the world. Terrorists, murderers, thieves and various other scoundrels test the faith and patience of innocent victims in virtually every corner of the globe. It is in dealing with those [...]
There was a husband and wife in our parish that were converts to Catholicism. By anyone’s definition they were a bit odd. I pulled up behind their cars one day and saw that their license plates read, respectively, “BAHOLY1″ and “2BHOLY.” It struck me then that the call 2 B HOLY was a haughty aspiration [...]
Yesterday I pulled into my driveway late in the morning after a coffee run. As I turned off the ignition I looked into the backyard at a leafless maple tree and noticed a few birds perched among the limbs. Robins! The first I had seen this year and there were four of them. I couldn’t [...]
