Author: Charles LaFond

  Lord, God of all creation help me to see that the things in my life which seem dead and blown about are part of the tumbling beauty of the…

You watch us praying in darkening days. You watch us avoiding praying while you make your way. You leave foot prints to the dung-hill and around, in creation, which indicates…

When I look at this image taken during a walk on my retreat, I see a rocky out-cropping which reminds me of the temptation-cliff we read about in the gospel.…

Three hundred feet up in the air off the desert floor in the Hopi Territory of Arizona is a flat mesa; one of three mesas strung along the desert like…

  Light in the desert is different than it is anywhere else.  My favorite gospel is the Gospel of John in which light is the co-star with Jesus and alongside…

  Last night I watched The Book Thief with some friends after a long dinner of an appetizer pizza with apricot, brie, garlic and olives, some sushi made with freshly…

There are two images in this blog.  They are both one photo I snapped just before my Godson and I climbed this tree just for laughs and giggles.  But the…

These purple flowers were growing in the desert alongside the path I was taking recently in the desert.  There is nothing around them much.  There is a barbed wire fence…

Trusting that God has existence under control and is unfolding life the way it should is hard.  I have friends who say that there is a God but that God…