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September 2014

September 24, 2014

A Walk through the Garden

For those of you taking your daily walk through the beautiful prayer garden that is...

September 17, 2014

The Threat of a Listener

I'm catching on to why its so unsettling to be in the presence of chatty elderly...

September 10, 2014

Short at One End Coming to Christ

I’m still trying to find my place as a pray-er among the residents at the...

September 03, 2014

Wilting in the Bright Light of Annie’s Need

Exiting my car at the women’s care facility, I saw there were plastic grocery bags...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Intimacy Relearned

A pair of Mourning Doves rested beside the massive zucchini leaves near the bird bath....

August 25, 2014

An Abrasive Solitude

One cannot live the life of an anchorite with an expectation of companionship. The journey...

August 15, 2014

Beet Red and Farm Life, Guest Post from Michelle Dawn Jones

A delightful story from Michelle Dawn Jones, a mother and farmer in Canada. I love...

August 13, 2014

Revealing of One’s True Self

Self awareness from a pretty bird: Earlier in the spring I was blessed with two...

August 06, 2014

Summit Climbing

I remembered being light headed and giddy. The man who had brought me to that...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Feed Me. Now!

Mass was at a church that had been reclassified, rather, to use the Bishop’s words,...

July 23, 2014

Concise Silence

For those of us called to an anchoritic life, the silence of solitude teaches...

July 16, 2014

Embroider the Earth with Prayer

I stooped at the waist to pull a few weeds. A twinge in my back...

July 11, 2014

Hope Filled Art of Pruning

I love to prune. It's like art to me, a hope filled art. Each cut...

July 09, 2014

Scent of Heaven

Next to the south wall of the screened porch is a small stand of Liliaceae...

July 01, 2014

Shoring Up a Broken Faith

The extraordinary Synod of Bishops convening this October will be discussing the family. The 2013...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

To Stand in Wait

Over the years I’ve learned to not turn away from dark nights and to accept...

June 18, 2014

Four Waters of the Soul

"A beginner must think of herself as one setting out to make a garden in...

June 11, 2014

Pentecost, what no fanfare or cupcakes?

Let me introduce to you Michelle Dawn Jones. She writes, among other things, about life in...

June 11, 2014

A Walk in the Garden

The transformation in my gardens in the past two years has been one of lightening...

June 09, 2014

What, Then.

What, then. When walks are not relieving,More a long distance paceUp and back.When anti-anything meds...

June 04, 2014

Homesick

Summer is the time that many of us travel, leaving home for vacation. When I...

May 2014

May 28, 2014

A Peace, Ancient and Alive

After morning Mass at Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian Church—a 115 year old country parish—I decided...

May 21, 2014

Catcalls and All

In the past few weeks I spent time outdoors helping a friend by doing light...

May 14, 2014

At the Scent of Water

Planting fruit trees is not something done lightly. They represent a long term commitment to...

May 07, 2014

A Deep Breath in Dappled Water

The past two weeks have been busy…so much so that I’ve not had time to...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

A Muddy Situation

I was walking a river path in the northern third of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. My...

April 23, 2014

It’s Mud

Today I feel like a rock stuck in the mud. I've had a demanding...

April 18, 2014

Flowers of the Shroud of Turin

The Shroud of Turin was wrapped around the body of Jesus after it was taken...

April 16, 2014

Flowers of the Shroud of Turin

The Shroud of Turin was wrapped around the body of Jesus after it was taken...

April 14, 2014

Too Holy to Hold Back

My dear friend Michelle Jones writes on her blog, County Road 21, about "The bitter...

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