It all starts with faith, without it we have nothing. Sunday's Gospel from Luke 13: 1 -9 includes the parable of the fig tree, in which a man has planted a fig tree which has borne no fruit for three years. He tells the gardener to cut it down, the gardener however talks him into …
Category: Faith
Listen to Him
"And a voice came from the cloud saying, 'This is my Son, the Chosen One. Listen to him.'" This comes from today's Gospel, Luke 9:35. Do you listen? Do you even know when He is speaking to you? Jesus speaks to us everyday, and all we need to do to hear is to listen. Unfortunately …
A Hearse and a U-Haul
"Follow me". These are the words Jesus spoke to Levi a tax collector, who then rose from his desk and walked out the door, never looking back. Levi later became one of the twelve, Matthew. Could you do this, leave everything behind to follow Jesus? Here was Levi, a tax collector with a good paying …
God and My GPS
I spend most of my day behind the windshield of a truck which gives me plenty f time to think about things when I am not dodging erratic drivers that is. Affixed to that windshield is a GPS device, in case I get lost. Hanging on that GPS is another device which also keeps me …
Waiting for that God Moment
As I may or may not have mentioned before, I spend my days driving around all day. This means I spend a lot of time with the radio on. When I can I listen to Catholic radio, not always an easy thing to do as there aren't many around where I am. I miss my satellite radio. …
Ask and it will be given you
Today at Mass, there were two young children in the pew in front of us with their parents. It was quite evident that three of the four really didn't want to be there, the two kids and the father. It brought me back to when I was young, I didn't want to be there either. …
Turning the Corner
I haven't been writing much lately, and what I have written on this blog has been a little down. I've been hitting some new lows, different from other lows in my life where I had some alcohol issues thrown in the mix which can certainly cloud one's thinking, but lows nonetheless. But...All of a sudden …
One More Test
In my last post I spoke of how I have been feeling down lately and have lost confidence in myself. The question arises: Is God testing me? I have written about this before. but would like to elaborate a little more on it. I don't think God tests us per se. Satan, however certainly does. …
Breaching the Wall
I don't know why exactly but I feel myself sliding backwards in my faith. Whether it is because I have been out of work for a few months now or something else I feel like I an heading back towards where I spent the last too many years. I realize that God works in ways we don't always …
What’s In It For Me
In my last two posts I bemoaned the results of the presidential elections. My take on the results is that we have become a "What's in it for me" culture and we vote accordingly, for whoever will give us more, for less. We have also become a "culture of death", where many of us no …
The Wayward Catholic 