I lost the month of May somewhere between watching my mother suffer extreme pain and mental confusion. I felt her pass by heavily; Time, slowed to a crawl as I was watching. And now, the month of May is gone. Time lost cannot be retrieved. I know this as my friend’s cancer roars in wildly. This third […]
Lent Diary: The Mundane, A Holy Awareness, Our body, and Jesus
My first Lenten post is here. These are the indiscriminate observations from days one and two. Often, I allow dailiness of life to flood in, the tyranny of the urgent family agenda turning me half brain-dead. Just do the next thing, if grumpily. In The Sign of Jonas, Merton says: “I ought to know, by now, […]
