Tag: Dohle
Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Today for Catholics is the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is a feast that celebrates full humanity, a heart filled with love, no fear or hatred nor is there desire for revenge, only mercy for all, in him we also become more fully human as we slowly experience his love, compassion and… Read More ›
Embodiment, incarnation, flesh and blood
To age is something good, pleasant (?), well, no (!), for if life is about ‘something’ rather than “chance” then something deeper seems to be a play. What if we are just children at our beginnings, if all that we experience as awful as it is, as absurd as suffering and evil seem to be,… Read More ›
Messy package is life
Life is funny and difficult and wrapped up in one messily garlanded package. It will stay that way for the most part, for things, or let’s say people will not fall into neatly lined up categories or stereotypes. Being a caregiver is a good way to learn about that reality. In everyday life a lot… Read More ›
The hidden one
I hide, so those who seek will walk the road of faith and not surety. For my essence is infinite and the mysteries of the Universe will lead to my reality, an intelligence beyond vast, infinite, wherein shadows of its immensity can be found over large stretches of time, as mankind slowly learns of its… Read More ›
The path of the caregiver
Caring for others is twofold. There is of course the work that is needed everyday, what I call the daily ritual. When I get someone new on the floor it may take a week or so to get a routine down so that things run more or less smoothly. The actual manual work is the… Read More ›
Common to the point of blandness
I was reading yesterday, a book written by a Priest about the NDE experience and the Christian path. I won’t go into the book, but as I was reading it, the reality of my being in the latter part of my life was very strong. It does not matter that I ‘may’ have thirty years… Read More ›
The prayer of a man past his prime (me)
As I age Lord my sense of manhood seems to change. When younger it was about muscles and vigor, endurance and lots of armor, pushups, and handstands, and lifting heavy weights, never admitting weakness, or even knowing of any in any real sense that I had any. I felt whole, strong, and together and foolishly… Read More ›
A simple talk on masculine spirituality
A simple talk on masculine spirituality When a man begins to take his faith seriously, which entails a deepening, personal relationship with Jesus Christ; how will that change, or challenge, how their masculinity is expressed? To be a man of Christ is not an easy task, for when Christ talks about a death to self,… Read More ›
A fact of life
A fact of life People will often say that it is not death they fear, but the actual process of dying. I think that may be true for most people. For after all, you’re alive, and then the next moment your dead, the dying process however can actually takes decades for many. Aging is a… Read More ›
The quality of Mercy
When speaking about mercy there can be turns in the road, or forks even, were different aspects can be pondered. Like many other topics on the spiritual life, different facets can be dwelt upon, to the exclusion of others. Sometimes the best way to try to understand mercy, both human and Divine (though the mystery… Read More ›