This morning, I went to mass with my youngest son. Of those that were up, only he desired to go; and so we went. When it came time for the offering, I drew out my wallet uncertain and having little clue what might be there. Five dollars, all ones; I grabbed them all […]
Browsing Category: Journal Pages
Journal Pages / Poetry
DREAMFLOWER
Anyone else, when reading a story, like to enter into the world and dream you read?
Journal Pages
THROUGH A DISTANCE
There was rejuvenation in the sun; in the songs of birds on wind, and, too, in breeze through woods; in the miles underfoot, breath finding and settling into rhythm, in the strain of beginning run and the loosening and settling in of body the longer that you kept; how mind matched with flesh and […]
Faith / Journal Pages
TRANSFIGURATION
“And after six days Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: and he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow…and as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud […]
Journal Pages
PHIAL OF LIGHT
I was in darkness, alone with thought I’d rather not hold, feeling its shadow close. I sought to divert my mind and came upon a passage. In it, Frodo is in an undesirable place, tempted again to wear the Ring. His hands clutch to the chain where the ring is kept, but he […]
Journal Pages
VOCATIONS
A vocation is not always a profession. Our purpose and life passion may not be what pays bills or puts food on our table, and that’s alright. Purpose and vocation are not a focus for immanent needs but on something more that stirs our souls and raises sense and connection to a Higher. […]