Browsing Category: Journal Pages

               6:30, I wake my youngest son.  He is still in bed, eyes closed, and under sheets; but his mind is alert and moving.                “I’m writing a poem,” he tells me from his bed.                “That’s awesome!” I respond.                “I was writing it in my dream,” his eyes still closed.                “I’ll leave […]

               It played again today as offering hymn.  I recognized in the opening notes, lived again association and memory.                 My daughter sat beside, my arm around her shoulder, as we listen and I saw her searching for the memory—association to song and sound eluding whole of understanding.                “How do I know this song?” […]

               We lost another game.  I’d like to say we looked better, have turned a corner—but we haven’t, not yet.                 Sometimes, when we’re working to be better, we look worse before improvement and the effort show.  That’s part of the learning, part of the growth—doing before we’re fully prepared but must do, still, because […]

               “Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends?  For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and unsure are our plans.  For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns.  And scarce do we guess the things on earth, and […]

        Twice this week I prayed for rain.         Twice this week—it fell, not a lot, not heavy and flooding, but enough to sign my prayers were heard.         All spring and early summer, all it did was rain.  Finally, it stopped, and when it did, I did not pray […]

August 28, 2025:                Today is the Feast of Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the church, whose Confessions and City of God remain two of the Church’s most definitive works in explaining personal experience with the Holy Spirit and the Church to lost and fallen world in collapse of the Roman Empire.                Yesterday […]

               “And Jesus passing by, saw a man, who was blind from his birth: And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?  Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in […]