Browsing Category: Journal Pages

                I missed Mass this week.  For a few days, I’ve failed to rise and begin my day reading and reflecting; and I felt the difference in my mood.  Last night, a friend referenced the First Letter of John, which I went and read this morning: “God is love, and those who abide in love […]

                How greatly do we change in the passage of time between encounters with another?  The answer is as infinite as span of time, spread of life experience and course.                 Sometimes, we change not at all; others—we are completely different.                 Where in the spectrum do we, ourselves, fall; and how do we ever […]

Where do we stand? What do we own by acts and will? What do we expropriate to the decisions of others as equal, human, and fallible as ourselves? Does our ownership, or deference, bring us peace?

                I began rereading Les Miserables this week.  I ended last night with the moment of Jean Valjean’s change in soul, when he sees himself and and life for what he is, and in the illumination of Bishop Bienvenu’s mercy, he wills himself to change.  The words he cried, on knees, in the moment of […]

                He watched the world awake: magenta sky with violet streaks that glowed before muting into daylight’s blue.  Sky painted, then, in passion hues—ephemeral spirit—conveying wonder that cannot, forever, hold; and when it dies, a golden light breaks low in sky as line into rising orb that burns through low-veil clouds, before, cast as violet […]