Browsing Category: Journal Pages

               Owen and I worked more on the basketball hoop yesterday.  I started in when I got home from the farm, and it was a slow-go, even with directions.  Directions called for plastic washers between each pivot and point of friction where bolts threaded to the frame.  I searched every box I’d opened, and I […]

               It’s eighteen degrees right now.  Tomorrow, it’ll be eighty.  Missouri weather is a little like life: it doesn’t have to make sense, it is what it is, and you make the most with how it comes.                Yesterday, I tried to do taxes.  I had little success.  My greatest efforts were in cleaning off […]

               “Naaman, the army commander of the king of Aram, was highly esteemed and respected by his master, for through him the LORD had brought victory to Aram.  But valiant as he was, the man was a leper.  Now the Arameans had captured in a raid on the land of Israel a little girl, who […]

               “Brothers and sisters: since we have been justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.                 And hope does not disappoint, because the love […]

               “The Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”—Matthew 20:28 _____                Last line of today’s Gospel, in reflection, I ask:                How do we serve?  Whom do we serve?  What ways do we share, give outward of ourselves in […]

               I slept through into the sun this morning.  This doesn’t happen often, and when it does, almost always, I sleep alone.  I don’t know why this is, only that it’s so.                Bridgette and Audrey stayed north last night for a volleyball tournament early this morning.  Two days ago, I planned to go, but […]

               I ran this morning (or something I’d call close to such).  I can’t tell you the last time I have.  There was a time when I was good about it.  Such time has been a while.                I was angry.  I was frustrated.  I knew my spirit and energy were wrong, and feelings—like problems—don’t […]

               I logged on again today to start my morning—computer and not on phone.  Again, just as yesterday—the only post I saw—receiving of a message:                “Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.”—G.K. Chesterton                It begs to question.  What is our generation?  What defines it?  What embodies it?  Toward what […]

               I went on Instagram this morning.  I used a computer and not my phone because it is the phone that sucks and keeps me in (and just like that, I begin to rationalize and seek reason and justification for why I did what I did—when trying not to—signs of a struggle enough).                The […]

               God is calling me to be quiet.  A week into Lent, I’ve given little up—but still I hear God call, discerning what He asks.                God is calling me to be quiet, to silent and separate from noise and distractions that take away from life and days.                 I chase cheap dopamine rewards.  I […]