Christ is risen!
I spend most weekday mornings driving my daughter to school. She is used to me getting in the car, turning off the radio, and having a conversation all the way to school. "How did you sleep?" "What did you dream about?" "What's going on in your life?" Eventually, one of the questions kicks…
Fr. Barnabas Powell
Christ is Risen!
"That boy is so hard-headed he wouldn't even notice a rock hitting him between the eyes." My grandmother had a way with words, but I've known people like this; so set in their ways that not even plain evidence would move them to change their ways. They were frozen in their thinking.…
Christ is risen!
OK, THAT got my attention! Bill was notorious for falling asleep in Mr. Thompson's Lit class. To be fair, the class was right after lunch and all of us sometimes struggled to "stay focused" during some of Mr. Thompson's lectures, but he really worked hard to keep things lively and to make…
Christ is risen!
T.S. Eliot, one of the 20th century’s major poets, said: “And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking everyone after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.”
It strikes me as significant that an author would write something like that. And, in my heart of hearts, it…
Christ is risen!
It almost seems unbelievable to think that our society could actually get to the place where we say that someone has outlived their "usefulness" and withdraw medical care from them because they aren't "worth" saving for society. And yet, we are creeping dangerously close to that mindset becoming not just acceptable but applauded!…
Christ is risen!
"Take a vacation," he said. Sure, I'll take a vacation, but how? I'm busy. There are things that have to get done. People are depending on me. People expect me to be available to them. I HAVE TO work!
Sound familiar? Yea, I know, we Type A personalities tend to have a…
Christ is risen!
I like this quote: “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” Yep, I bet you know that feeling of being so fed up with the everyday activities of life that you say “STOP!”
And yet, why is it that too many of my…
Christ is risen!
"What would Jesus do?" That phrase was popular a few years ago, and I confess to being amused by this fad of "easy religion." One of the main reasons was that the life of Jesus is not easily categorized as the comfortable "Jesus" we moderns would prefer. You know the "Jesus" I'm talking…
Christ is risen!
Ah, the beauties of Springtime! And the hay fever! For those of us susceptible to the reign of terror that is pollen season; the watery eyes, the stuffy nose, basically all the bad stuff on all the commercials we see for medicine to combat this scourge of this wonderful season; we love and…
Christ is risen!
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them." During the COVID lockdown, I remember being tempted with despair but then I read the rest of the quote and I refuse to allow the temporary to drown out the Song of the Resurrection in…