"Dad"
Originally, this was to be the blog for Advent 4, but prepping for Christmas Eve got in the way. Then it was going to be Christmastide,...
ADVENT III ASHER
When we found out that our extended family was going to increase by one, just before Advent last year, we were all a bit surprised. But...
ADVENT 2 Colleen
One of the last visits I had with Colleen was several weeks before she died. She had come out of a really bad week, where she had...
ADVENT 1 2018 "Two Tau Omega"
"We didn't know his name." I am beside my son's bed in the intensive care unit at Jefferson Hospital. He is sleeping the uncomfortable...
Barbara Bush and Me
First Presbyterian Church of Midland Texas was my first position out of seminary and part of my job description was to reinvigorate and...
Forgiveness
"I believe in the forgiveness of sins……" But what we are really saying is …. "I believe in the forgiveness of sins……mostly mine" Or "I...
FACING YOUR DEMONS
“but it is up to us to decide if they linger within us or not" Evagrius Ponticus referring to the "Eight Evil Thoughts" And he cured many...
Prayer and the Lonely Places
I never was so unhappy, never felt so great the sense of loneliness. No matter how many times I gave up mother, father, husband, brother,...
Confession and Tolerence
Paris is worth a Mass (Paris vaut une messe) Henry of Navarre (King Henry IV of France) Tolerance is a Christian virtue;...
"As You Judge......."
“There are as many sinners on our side as theirs” Martin Luther I am troubled by Christians who seem to equate love of country with...
