No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. - 1 Corinthians 10:13 (RSV2CE) If I had to choose one …
Category: spiritual journey
Go Directly to Heaven
What will they say at you funeral? What will be your legacy?
If Only
How many times have we said that? If only I had more time. If only I had more money. If only I had more faith. Throughout my life, I have always been an “If only “ guy. Whether it is “If only I had made this choice, this would have happened.” I have even said …
A Good Catholic
Am I a good Catholic? What makes a good Catholic? This is the question I have been asking myself for the last few weeks. I feel like I'm failing in the faith department. Sunday's Gospel reading, Luke 17: 5-10, is about faith. The apostles ask Jesus to increase their faith. Once again this is Jesus' …
Beware of the Dog
A few years ago I came across the writings of the founder of Opus Dei, Saint Josemaria Escriva. At the time I didn't have much time to read them but recently as I was perusing my 4,000 bookmarks (okay maybe not that many) and came across them again. St. Josemaria believed we can all find …
Update: How Things Change
After I wrote my last post I had another one of those "coincidences" where out of the blue something happened to shake things up. It is starting to make me think that God really is listening to me. First, let me start by saying I don't believe in coincidences. There was a time when I …
How Things Change
I have had a few rough weeks at work lately. The problem is, now let me try to put this as nice as I can, I am surrounded by profanity, negative thinking, and profanity. Okay, I shouldn't say surrounded, it doesn't emanate from my office but from the one next to me. It really got …
Pain and Suffering – Part 1
Today I am going to write about a subject I usually keep to myself - Pain and Suffering. Not the pain and suffering of others or even of the world in general, but my own. I am not sure I have talked about it here before, maybe a long time ago, but I was diagnosed …
The Truth Will Set Us Free
Every once in a while I will come across something that just strikes me in a certain way. Whether it is a passage from Scripture or a line from one of the thousand other things I seem to always be reading. Today it is a line from the Book of Proverbs. The justice of the …
Give Me Strength
I don't normally talk about my past other than to say I wasn't the best Catholic or Christian and I made a lot of bad choices. But the last few days have brought back some memories of when I was younger, mostly about my Dad. This past Tuesday my wife had a total hip replacement …