Fall behind – spring ahead!
What if we could “replay” what we lost in our lives. Of course, we don’t get to replay the hours we lost.
Nor do we get to skip ahead and see our futures as we change clocks.
Can changing of clocks as a metaphor for our lives?
Have you had someone close to you die with whom you had unfinished business?
We are left saying: “If only there were another chance!”
Well there is!
A stopped clock is right at least twice a day.
I hope my track record for predictions is a bit better than that.
Here I revisit 3 predictions I made some two years ago.
Only later in life did I come to understand that how what I dreaded earlier taught me to make connections.
It is written that God took 7 days to create the world … at least as we think we know it.
We are just realizing anew that this world is not even a speck of all that God created.
I can remember two talks that stopped me in my tracks … and still nourish me today. Each, in its own way, broadened my vision of what it means to be a follower of Christ, the Evangelizer of the Poor.
We sing ““All are welcome! All are welcome! …Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live”.
Do we live the words?
In this Vincentian Mindwalk I am going to predict some things about what will happen when an ailing 86-year-old Pope Francis braves the sweltering heat wave in Lisbon to spend some time with young people at World Youth Day.
Is there any connection between the celebration of World Youth Day and the World Day for Grandparents and Elderly?
I had never heard the phrases “Sage on the Stage” or “Mentor in the Center.” A mentor is one who helps people connect the dots in their lives.
Almost ten years ago to the day, Pope Francis told young people his hopes for World Youth Day. The sound bite people remember… “make a mess”.
Today many from both the left and the right are saying he himself has made a mess.
For three centuries early Christians could not conceive of themselves as soldiers. What happened?
Freshly ordained in May, 1965, I was privileged to attend one of the final sessions of the Second Vatican Council. In this Mindwalk I share my journey into the church of Vatican II and Pope Francis.