Archive for June 2024

“The Mystery of Godliness is Great.”  St. Paul “Something breaks suddenly into our lives and upsets the normal pattern and we have to begin to adjust ourselves to a new kind of existence.”  Bede Griffiths As a junior in college, I was given an assignment, as part of a sociology class in gerontology, to regularly…

“A father holds his child’s hand for a short time, but a daddy holds their heart forever.” “Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.”  Proverbs On Monday of this past week my day began by holding my newest granddaughter.  Like me she woke up early.  Having…

“For everything there is an appointed time.”  Ecclesiastes “In the fullness of time, God sent his Son.”  Galatians 4 “Time is an illusion.”  Einstein “How much time do you have?” “What time is it?” “Do you have the time?” “Can you make time?” Time.  It is an obsession.  We order our lives around time.  It…

“And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.” Genesis 3 “A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe’; a part limited in time and space.  One experiences oneself as someone separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of one’s…