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The most important time of life

Getting older is not easy for one by one, aspects of our physical selves are lost that when young, were taken for granted.  As we age we are all called upon to find inner reserves that allow us to deal with this slow decline with grace, if not with ease.  It is a daily choice… Read More ›

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Outburst

I suppose that many people at one time or another has trouble in dealing with very powerful emotions. They seem to have a life of their own these emotional reactions, coming to birth it seems explosively at times, or slowly building, until some form of expression must be articulated, often in destructive ways. I know… Read More ›

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That first step

Corners can be a good place to be, yet mostly not. Backed into slowly over the years, with elbows hitting opposite walls, tight, a self created prison, with only one way out, yet often not seen. Looking out from one’s narrow perch, with no place to turn, unless one just wants to show their back;… Read More ›

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Bright flame

Sometimes it can’t be helped, two world views collide, for many reasons, some too deep to understand. Yet we still try, rifts come into play, words spoken, emotions flare, and two people walk away from each other thinking the other wrong. Sometimes the divide is simply so wide that no bridge can be built, the… Read More ›

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Just one look

It was early morning when the day still fresh, the air cool and hope was in the air, before fatigue could set in or disappointment change the days youthful texture, that is when I saw him, sitting peacefully, he was old, in his seventies I would say, with a glorious beard golden in color suffused… Read More ›

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Talk on Anger, rage and resentment

We pick up things in our lives. Some of them are life giving, healing and helpful for us as we make our journey. Other events happen to us that weigh us down, burden us and pick at our souls like a bee trapped in our ear. A constant buzz which drains and further wounds our… Read More ›

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Fatima

When younger I was interested in Fatima, then I ‘outgrew’ it, well a foolish thought I know. Now I am looking at this again. I got this book from our store here titled: “Fatima for Today: The Urgent Marian Message of Hope“. The message is Gospel, and it brings out the importance of how connected… Read More ›

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Inner

Sometimes I think my inner world resembles a basement filled too overflowing with all kinds of things. Some new, others old and moldy; useful tools though they are often buried under layers of chaotic junk. I get lost sometimes, so many images floating to the surface; faces, scenes, emotions, rambling thoughts, and irrational episodes of… Read More ›

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Yes (God is faithful)

The myth of the spiritual life is that we will one day reach perfection.  If this is not believed consciously, then it is often operating on an unconscious level.  For after all did not Jesus say:  “Be you perfect as your Father is perfect”?  So willpower (the will-to-power), can become the central operative in this… Read More ›

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The wonder of writing

Writing at one time in my life was something that I actually hated to do.  In school it was something you did for grade credit, which was of course work, though if truth be told…. at times I have to say I did enjoy it.  Then there were letters, which I have never liked writing,… Read More ›

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