Journals

The book of Hebrews tells of the ‘heroes of the faith’ in chapter eleven and then has these classic lines next in chapter twelve: “Therefore, […]

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Neighborly neighbors often really care what’s going on with you and the other neighbors. Sometimes it is easy to push some neighbors away and not […]

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I once had a dog and her name was Pinto. Not because she was white and brown like a Pinto horse, but because she was […]

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I am still thinking of yesterday’s Journal entry on ‘Believing our Doubts.’ It made me process it the other way around, or Doubting our Beliefs. […]

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Recently in early morning prayer… I started to lift my hands and heart to the Lord… I felt and sensed a blank, nothing, zero. Stone […]

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I recently read this: “How do we forget the only thing we remember about some one if we need to?” I didn’t know where it […]

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Thomas Merton (1915-1968) Trappist monk and author wrote: “Let me seek, then, the gift of silence,and poverty, and solitude,where everything I touch is turned into […]

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Isaiah was a prophet of Israel when they were in captivity in Babylon. Chapter 51 was probably written near the end of the captivity around […]

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Clarissa Pinkola Estés, analyst and author wrote: ‘A Prayer’ “Refuse to fall downIf you cannot refuse to fall down,refuse to stay down.If you cannot refuse […]

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Paul, an apostle, wrote to the Corinthian church: “I’m not responsible for what the outsiders do, but don’t we have some responsibility for those within our community […]

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