I returned to “Life is a Miracle” today, Berry’s explanation of art and how it is not valuable in what it might be reduced and explained to be, but for how it exists and what it tells by the form in which it appears, the story told, the perception shared; how art and science […]
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THE HOPEFUL MAN
“…it is at the hopeless moment that we require the hopeful man, and the virtue either does not exist at all, or begins to exist at that moment. Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.”—G. K. Chesterton, Heretics If Good, we deserve to find what we […]
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WASTED TIME
I like beginning my days writing. I enjoy ending them the same. Maybe it is wasted time, but if there is something small and simple that gives joy and draws expressions of good, why should we be deterred? Writing, however plain and simple its creation, brings me joy and adds brightness to my day. […]
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NEVER A KING
I believe I can build a community. I believe, listening and being engaged with the signs that show, that I can grow relationships and foster a community of minds that feed and enrich one another. When we put something out there and witness a response, I believe it is because there is something in […]
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FOUND
I write when the sky is gold, when my world and mind are light. It is in this light of day when I feel most connected to my soul, as grand or simple as it may be in this state of sky. Light strikes through the window of my kitchen, off the face of […]
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JUNE 7, 2020: A MESSAGE
I believe in Divine Providence. I believe the influence, effect, and messaging of God within our world is real even when we sometimes misconstrue the meaning—something inevitable given the imperfect state in which we all, as humans, exist. I have witnessed and felt in my soul too many times messages in the Catholic Missal […]
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A BEGINNING
“Doesn’t it feel good to express how special someone is to you? No hiding, no pretensions, just leave it there for what it is? Maybe it raises another up. Maybe it’s dismissed, but either way, don’t we feel better for having said it? Doesn’t the world seem better when we share the kinder spirits […]
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A BRIGHTER WORLD
Maybe I’m a fool, but doesn’t it sometimes take a fool to believe a better reality; and if a fool lives this better vision outright, can he not guide others into his belief? I’ve lived in the portrayed presence of our Today. I don’t buy its darkness anymore. I’ve discovered something more. It is […]
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BULLS
The father and son worked together fixing fence. They pulled mangled t-posts, cut broken wires and spliced new strands torn where two bulls fought. The bulls had fought and broke through for cows on the other side. The bulls were two days of blindness, running wild and settling every cow that was ready before […]
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NEW DAY
Even as our better selves, there are day when we still fail: days when we mess up, days we fall short, do wrong, hurt, and disappoint. This is not a failure in faith, nor a lack of its presence. It is a failure of the Man in which we are made. We are imperfect […]