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July 17, 2016

Days 201-205 – Balance

Balance is the question. Her life is the answer. It is not that she has lived so long but how she has lived & who & what she has chosen to love. Continue reading

July 16, 2016

Days 199-200 For All the Darkness…

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” ~St. Francis of Assisi As the week draws to an end, let us pray for peace and for those who are committed to sowing violence, that… Continue reading

July 11, 2016

Days 194-198 – Peace Fishing

In December I thought I would try to film myself searching for peace – Peace Fishing. This 30 second video shows how hard it can be to catch a peace fish. Continue reading

July 9, 2016

Days 192-193: Original Blessing

“For Franciscan theologian and philosopher Bonaventure (1217-1274), the perfection of God and God's creation is quite simply a full circle, and to be perfect, the circle must and will complete itself. He knows that Alpha and Omega are finally the… Continue reading

July 6, 2016

Days 190-191 – Guest Meditation From A Spirit Fisherman

When my cousin, Dr. Terry Chapman, steps waist deep into a cold New England stream to live his love of trout fishing he becomes a living metaphor for the spiritual immersion every loving caregiver must engage every day. Continue reading

July 4, 2016

Days 187-191 – “…because of the brave.”

America symbolizes freedom even to those who attack it out of fear & ignorance. Dictatorships & terrorists hate free countries because they want dominance not democracy. Because they want to force-feed the values of a few rather than to allow… Continue reading

July 2, 2016

Days 185-186 : One from Many

Note: Reflection by Liz Sorensen Wessel “‘E Pluribus Unum’ was the motto proposed for the first Great Seal of the United States by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson in 1776. A Latin phrase meaning "One from many," the… Continue reading

June 26, 2016

Journal of Sacred Work