linens
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking with a woman who cares for our cathedral linens. We have 10, and as many as15, eucharistic liturgies each week. She irons the…
roots
A church library, in a poor neighborhood in Prague Luke 9:3-9:3 3He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money—not…
darkness
A letter from the one who is becoming in the morning’s wee hours. You must have created the life we know in the darkness of early morning. Our texts say…
my best
Today, Lord God, I will do my best. Help me. There are so many things to do. So many competing goods. So many people who want things done, money…
The Holy Trinity Icon, (Rublev) Mount Athos, Greece, Egg tempera on carved wood, 2000
making time
A friend of a friend came to one of my art openings at EDGE Gallery last winter. Paul brought a bunch of his friends to the exhibit of twenty funeral…
green
When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality…
soft feet
It is amazing how easily we humans exhibit our propensity to being annoyed. And its not just me. The people I talk to say it is the same for them. …
touching Jesus
About this time last year, I was returning from a vacation which had some nasty turns. I was hit by a train, wound up in a Prague ICU, was told…
gentle as doves
In the tenth chapter of Matthew “See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves." Different translations…
life’s teaching weeds
Recently, in an art gallery in Detroit, I visited an exhibit of pottery. It was of white porcelain and minimalist in nature. Every few feet there was a small shelf…