From Brain Rest to Reflectiveness (Days 3-5!)

My plan to write each and day and rest my brain didn’t work out…we live and learn! But after a few days of quiet, restful, and “ordinary” days of family eating, Irish liturgies, and walking the Dublin streets with my mother, I have decided to bunch days a few days...

The “Where” of God: Emmanuel (Day 2 of 12)

The image here was painted by an artist friend named Alice Robertson. (Thank you, Alice, for your gift and generousity).  Today (and yesterday) the world celebrates … in various ways and God knows we need joy in our world right now…yet for Christians the centre-point...

Christmas in Ireland: Day One of Twelve

I am in Dublin for Christmas: jetlagged, strung-out from another overfull-if-rich year, but home with family and those who know me best because they have known me for so long. The current repeated “lesson” I am being taught is about how to stop and learn to not do...

Why blog?

Why blog? “We had the experience but missed the meaning.” So said T.S. Eliot. I am reflecting on why I feel the need to be more consistent in posting on the blog section of my website. It’s like a constant “pending” action on my to-do list. It doesn’t make me feel...

Looking Back in Gratitude, Imagining Forward in Trust

“We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.” T.S. Elliot’s quote from the second quarter of The Dry Salvages is a reflection on the meaning of life and how important it is to stop and reflect upon what we have lived, so that we don’t miss the experience itself...

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