Finishing Well

Panic. You've felt it, haven't you? That sudden sense that everything is out of control... ...that the world and th...

    I just finished skimming a new book I wanted to read.   There wasn't much in it.  One of those books you ...

“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”  ―  Henri J.M. Nouwen

“And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the s...

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”  ―  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

For the next few posts I'm going to focus on the topic of joy.  It seems I lose mine far to easily so I want to look at this topic and d...

“What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time...

" Jesus looked around and saw them following.  “What do you want?”  he asked them." -John 1:38 The most brilliant thought ...

A recent article, in light of the pope's visit, had this as the opening line- "Remarks made by Pope Francis at St. Patrick’s C...

My sweet mother is living well and wonderfully active. I get to visit with her on the phone each week.  Often she has related the story of h...