text “Together we make a family.” Gathering around the hospital bed, the generations of Ken’s family found…
text "What are friends for?" I don't recall when I first heard the phrase, "What are friends for?" …
text "It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog." Coming home very late from a hospital call, I was listening on the car radio…
text "I hear you knocking, but you can't come in." Once the rhythm and blues song, "I Hear You Knocking, But You Can't Come In",…
text "What a friend we have in Jesus." Some years ago, when I was teaching in Dubuque, Iowa, I was invited to a Hymn…
text "As we look back at those who have gone before us, what do we find?" n you take." It was two days before Christmas eve that I reached up to the top shelf in the…
text "Always give more than you take." Reading the daily obituaries always gives me a new lease on life. A firm…
text If you want the unlikeliest of answers, then listen to the unexpected questions. In the words of the poet Mary Oliver, "Poetry is a life-giving force. For…
text "Lift up your eyes Upon this day breaking for you. Give birth again to the dream." The inevitable synchronicity of the gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and…
text "One world at a time." Henry David Thoreau, the great American naturalist, poet and transcendentalist…
text "I wait with quickened hope for crooked paths to straighten." Generations of the family gathered around the bed as I prepared to administer…
text "Who lives on the outskirts of the kingdom?" The feast of Christ the King signals the end of Ordinary Time and the…
text "Still, I put up with this Church until I see a better one; and she must put up with me... The sixteenth century Christian humanist and scholar Erasmus (died 1536) had,…
text "Vocatus Atque Non Vocatus, Deus Aderit."              …
text "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." The final leg of the journey would take me through O'Hare Airport in Chicago…
text "Do you love me?" "I suppose I do" Often, when I hear the question, "Do you love me?" I think of a beautiful…
text "Heads I win, tails you lose." The marble games we played on the parking lot of Incarnation school were…
text "What does RSVP mean?" In meeting the couple for the first time, I was aware of a major difference in…
text "In Vino Veritas, in Aqua Sanitas!" The clinking of wine glasses had gotten the attention of the many wedding…
text "Yes! We have no bananas." Reportedly, a woman in search of bananas went into a tiny grocery store…
text "Expect the unexpected." When I rang the bell on the convent door I was pleasantly surprised by the…
text "The person seeking revenge must be prepared to dig two graves." The Chinese get blamed for a lot of things, especially in the business world…
text "If two of you on earth agree about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven When the pastor got up to preach, a little girl turned to her mother and said…
text "You duped me, O Lord, and I allowed myself to be duped." Openly lamenting his faithful service to God, Jeremiah, the reluctant prophet,…
