Two images, in particular, remind me of the limitations of what I see.
They are helping me be more humble when I think of my conversations with those who do not view things the way I do.
As certain as I am of what I believe in, what I see is not the whole story.
I try to read the declaration of independence each year. This year I got distracted by the thought of Jesus’ “declaration of DE-pendence”
Just about everyone in North America has seen flying geese in their trademark v-formation. On the ground we have found them messy and dangerous.
Yet fighter pilots ave leaned from them!
Is there anything we can learn about about church community today?
In this Vincentian Mindwalk, I share thoughts about the wineskins or frameworks of our thinking about God.
This Vincentian Mindwalk reflects on the “dangerous memory “ of the Exodus and Independence Day in our past, present, and future.
Unfinished Work of the Prolife Movement – Only when we show through our actions the goods of unconditional love and radical hospitality at the core of the culture of life movement will we change hearts and minds.
A good story reflects some reality even if it is told in different clothes. The story of today’s polarization over abortion echoes a story told around 500 years before Christ. It is the story of group of blind persons arguing about their experience … and certitudes …
Over the next 20 Sundays Luke tells us stories from along the road to Jerusalem through Galilee. But this is no sightseeing journey. Luke wanted to show how all followers of Christ were invited…and challenged by Jesus.
An unplanned visit the Emergency Room of our local hospital helped me realize the difference between hearing and listening. This led me to experience the visit in ways beyond the focus on myself.
Too often, we cannot see the forest for the trees. Our wisdom figures help us to step back and see where individual pieces of the picture puzzle fit. The wise person helps us see what is not always evident.
Sometimes I have said “Don’t you understand”? Something was so obvious to me!
Other times, with perhaps deeper frustration, I have felt, “You don’t understand (me).
When I thought about it, I realized… “It’s complicated!”
There are many ways and leve…
A seminarian taught me not everyone is blessed with a father like mine! Without a direct word, my father taught me so much about Our Father. DId anyone help you recognize God as a loving parent?
“Caller unknown” often leads to the marketer’s purgatory of Voice Mail , or even to the marketer’s hell of the Spam Folder. Do we really listen to the calls of the poor… or put their cries in voicemail?