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A Green Ridge Devotional

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June 2021

June 24, 2021

Gather Ye Rosebuds

This morning it is raining, a perfect summer shower with soft rumblings of thunder here...

June 15, 2021

It’s Mostly Mowing

I’m composing this in my head as I sit on the riding lawn mower, passing...

June 01, 2021

The House That Grandma Built

“Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.”  The house...

May 2021

May 25, 2021

A Short Spirituality of Naps

My seven-year-old daughter balked.  “Do I really have to rest?”  “Yes,” I said. “This is...

May 22, 2021

Cork Board-May 22, Vigil of Pentecost

"Be glad, O sons of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord, your God; for he...

May 18, 2021

Why Don’t They Just Move?

This essay ran originally in the August 29, 2020 edition of the Sedalia Democrat. It...

May 11, 2021

People at Home

Almost nobody I knew was a “stay-at-home-mom.” I don’t believe I even heard the term...

May 08, 2021

Cork Board May 8

"May, with alle thy floures and thy grene, Welcome be thou, faire, fresshe May!" -Chaucer...

May 04, 2021

Plant the Asparagus

This essay ran originally in the May 2, 2020 edition of the Sedalia Democrat.  I love...

May 01, 2021

Peter’s Mother-in-Law and the Dignity of Work

Feast of St. Joseph the Worker/May Day  May 1, 2021  Old farmers do not begin...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

The Day The Pigs Would Die

My father was sober, running his hand through his hair. His face was covered with...

April 20, 2021

Blackberry Winter: The Folklore of Spring Snow

Here in Green Ridge, the snow has been falling thickly since just after dawn. The...

April 13, 2021

God the Child in Spring

In Eastertide, God is no longer willing to restrain his abundance. It pours out on...

April 07, 2021

All Creation Rightly Gives Him Praise

The doctor was a tall, lean, eccentric man. No one knew quite what his medical...

March 2021

March 27, 2021

Cork Board – March 27

Willow trees are greening, robins are mating, and the Worm Moon is waxing full this...

March 23, 2021

Lent And Spring Fever

We who live in temperate climates are privileged to experience God’s love in relation to...

March 16, 2021

Small Towns, Kinship and the Body of Christ

“If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.”...

March 12, 2021

Cork Board – March 12, 2021

Spring is sprung here in Green Ridge! In the past week, we heard the first...

March 09, 2021

Who is a Traditional Woman?

In the past decade, many Catholics have been looking back to generations long-gone for guidance...

March 05, 2021

Cork Board-March 5th, 2021 

In my past, they were all over town. They hung in the entryway of the...

March 02, 2021

On Abraham, arson and loving your neighbors

It has been a hard weekend in this corner of Green Ridge.  On Saturday night,...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

Welcome to Green Ridge!

Welcome to Green Ridge, population 476.  Down a gravel lane, back in the far corner...

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