I once heard a story about a woman who was turning left on a two lane country road when another driver came roaring up behind her, smashing into her minivan at full clip. The cars careened around the road like a derailed train  before skidding to a stop. As soon as she realized she was […]

Here we all sit hunkered down in our house bunkers. We seem to have two things in abundance these days. There are numbers. Lots of numbers. There are big growing numbers like coronavirus infection rates and unemployment filings and days left in our collective quarantine. There are numbers that keep falling like available ventilators and […]

Where do we go for peace? Where do we go to get our bearings again? So much of what we’ve leaned on, those givens in our lives, are cascading around us like a tossed deck of cards. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life as we know it for the near future. I don’t even have […]

Picture it with me. A man walks along a mountain path amidst towering aspens and pines. The tree cover here dances shadows around his feet. His pace is easy because he’s really not trying to get anywhere. He closes his eyes and takes in a deep tug of mountain air. This is what he’s here […]

“It would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant […]