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Learning to live with uncertainty and loss​

Being young is truly wonderful. When I think of my youth, I often experience ‘that person’ as almost a stranger, yet someone I of course know. I also feel young inside, but there is a difference. I have learned, more or less, to deal with loss.  Many people learn about loss early in life. Starting… Read More ›

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Strange thoughts

For the last three months or so I have been having a strange kind headache.  It is a pressure felt right at the top of my head.  Sometimes there is a little pain around the edges, still on the top but a little further off from the pressure point.  In years past, in that same… Read More ›

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Do not cling

His mother ill in the hospital very sick and he is going crazy not knowing what to do, so he calls the doctor expecting an answer, when often the only answer is one he does not want to hear; she is old winding down though slowly, doctors can only do so much in any circumstance… Read More ›

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Corentine

His name was unusual and it fit him very well, since he was a very unique man, who when I first saw him made me a little uneasy. He had gentleness to him, Also an odd way of acting that put me off at first, in fact I can’t say I ever really warmed up… Read More ›

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All of those I will meet today

This is my best day. I live to serve you, God. I will pray for all of your children who will not get out of bed today because they died or they are sick, or they are sad. Please help me to be kind to and to love all of those who I meet today…. Read More ›

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The feast of the Holy Innocents

Free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children. As an historical event the killing of the innocent children by Herod in order to find and destroy the Christ Child was of minor importance. All through history the innocent have been killed, enslaved, and abused without any recourse to justice. In fact, in this world,… Read More ›

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When our journey begins

One of the biggest issues that come up with people on a spiritual path that is theistic is their own projections onto God. We project on to each other all the time and it can cause serious issues in relating. If the projection is positive or negative, it can have the same result, a break… Read More ›

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Deeper needs arising

Years ago I was talking to a friend of mine. Her name was Judy F. She is now gone, she died about 10 years ago. She was a little older than me and she would come out to see me about once a month. As a person goes she was very complex with lots of… Read More ›

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A Quiet Day Out

A memory from my time in the Infirmary (Br. William died 1/25/13) This was written in January of 2007 I came into work this afternoon and the first person I saw was William, who had that look. It was the look that communicated to me, that perhaps he needed to get out and about for a… Read More ›

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What we believe is a choice

Prayer keeps us open to the Spirit. The Spirit seeks to heal and lead us to fuller life; we all have an infinite capacity to grow, to learn, to love and to have an ever deeper relationship with the Infinite, the lover of our souls. Either life is an open ended affair, or it is… Read More ›

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