I have a confession to make, I hate cleaning. There I said it and now the whole world knows it. But even though I hate it, it still has to be done. Furthermore, after it is done once, that isn't the end of it, you have to do it again and again, because if you …
Category: Reflections
How are You Spending Your Talents
I hate to admit it but I am not always the smartest person in the room, especially when it comes to my faith, theology, the catechism, and especially interpreting the Bible. Sometimes passages will speak to me (sometimes they even yell at me) and other times they make no sense to me at all, or …
Where There is a Will
When I look back at my journey over the last three or so years, there are times when I think I have made so much progress and then there are days, like yesterday, when I realize I still have a long way to go. I will get into what happened yesterday a little later. One of …
Good Fish Bad Fish
Are you a good fish, or a bad fish? If you ever spend much time watching various reality shows, like the one about the crab fishermen or the one where they go after all kinds of fish, you see either at the end of the day or after they bring the nets up, the crew …
What Would You Ask For
It's Sunday which means it's time for Reflections on the Mass Readings! Today's readings are brought to you by God, and they are 1 Kings 3:5, 7 - 12, Romans 8:28 -30 and Matthew 13: 44-52. What would you ask for? If God came to you and said "I will give you anything you want, …
Sunday Reflection: Separating the Wheat and the Weeds
Today's Gospel reading was from Matthew:13:24 - 30. This is Jesus telling another one of his parables. It talks about a man who is planting his wheat field. After he and his workers sow their seeds, one of the man's enemies comes around at night and sows seeds for weeds among the wheat. When …
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If I Knew Then – Reflection of a Wayward Catholic
One of the first things I did when I decided to find my way back to God was to read the Bible. This is something I had never done. I remember once as a teenager, perhaps when I was in college, picking it up and starting to read it but I didn't get very far. …
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Quick to Hear Slow to Speak
How many of us are quick to speak and slow to hear? I would be willing to bet more of us than care to admit. We seem to live in a world where we never listen to each other any more. We have so many distractions, our attention spans have gone down to nothing, we …
When the Flicker Becomes a Flame
It is Sunday night and I am sitting in the room I call me den, listening to the wind howl outside and trying to kep the fire in the wood stove going. I am not sure if it is some bad wood, maybe too green or if there is a back draft coming down the …
Who am I to Judge
In my last post I wrote how I had done something I never had before, gave money to a street person. I wrote how it reminded me of Matthew 25: 44 - 46 and "What you did for the least..." I have been reflecting even more on this over the last couple of days. As …
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