As anyone who has a house to take care of knows, there are some chores that you just dread each year. I had to begin one of those yesterday, stacking cord wood. Now don't get me wrong, I love my wood stove, there is nothing better than sitting in my den on a cold, snowy …
Jerry, Maury and Steve
I have to admit that today I have been less than productive. I have the day off and I should be doing many other things than sitting here doing nothing, I am not even writing. Instead I have been watching the daily parade of assorted characters appearing on the string of endless talk shows like …
The Door Story
A few posts ago I wrote about the recent deaths of two of my cousins. I also mentioned that one of them was the daughter of an uncle who passed away at a bad time in my life and there was a story of an answered prayer that goes along with the day of his …
Build a Strong Foundation
As I am sure I have mentioned ad nauseum, I spend a lot of my day driving around. Much of this is spent in the northern regions of Vermont and New Hampshire. In this part of New England as in others parts of the country I am sure, there are many old barns, some still …
Finding God in All Things
I may have mentioned that make my living driving around and have done so for the last fifteen years. Yesterday, during my travels I was in northern Vermont and New Hampshire. It was an absolutely beautiful late summer day and I would have liked to have been able to stop and "smell the roses" for …
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 …
Enter Through the Narrow Gate
How many times do we stray from the straight path? How many of us don't even now what the straight path is? If we don't know what the straight path is, how can we follow it? I think back to my past, when I strayed from the straight path and I realize I didn't know …
Kicking God to the Curb
One of my favorite Catholic talk show hosts talked about a recent Gallup poll yesterday that reported on recent trends in the acceptability of things that used to be considered immoral and now are accepted as moral. (see Gallup poll here) I did write a little about it in my other blog, the more political one, …
The Safest Road to Hell
Isn't that the truth? The road to hell begins smoothly, you drift a little to one side or the other and you don't even realize it. As Lewis says, there aren't any signposts, nothing to let you know you are going the wrong way. The Evil One won't post signs for you, he will just let …
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 …
The Wayward Catholic 