The Heart

I’ve been thinking about my heart these days because I had my third heart surgery in five years a couple of weeks ago.  That coupled with an impending birthday has me reflecting upon this very vital organ.  I hope it is strong.  I hope it is healing properly after this last surgery.  I hope it […]

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Red Jesus and Blue Mary – Part 2

Blue Mary stands tall above her guardian angels and her seahorses.  She dares not look to her right to glimpse her son, Red Jesus.  She stood strong as he hung upon the cross.  She held her head high even as he was humiliated.  Her tears fell.  Her hands shook.  But she wouldn’t leave her son.  […]

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Red Jesus and Blue Mary – Part 1

Every week as I drive to and from church, I see Red Jesus and Blue Mary.  Some days they whisper words of love and faith on days when I am struggling.  Sometimes I am challenged by the faith of the family who honors the Savior and Mother Mary and how they understand you can’t have […]

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“What do you need me to do for you?”

I used to laugh about making lists.  When I was younger, lists were optional because my brain was able to keep up with everything.  Or it wasn’t so full of worry and stress and responsibility at least.  But now, now, I make lists: grocery lists, packing lists, gift lists, things to do lists… In the […]

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Stumbling

I stumbled a few days ago.  I was investigating a grotto that I pass almost every day on the route to my office.  It stands at the point of an overgrown wooded lot.  Someone makes sure the grass doesn’t over take the grotto.  The back of it faces an intersection of 4 streets and in […]

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Smallness

Smallness is the opposite of bigness.  At some point in time, we notice our smallness and lately I have been feeling the smallness of life.  Maybe you can relate? This year I will celebrate a big birthday.  It’s an age where people talk about their approaching retirement and their dreams for those retirement years.  As […]

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Bigness

This word is stuck in my mind.  It is a real word and in fact, a very rare word.  Most people use words like largeness, enormity, abundance, vastness, instead of bigness. After Hurricane Katrina, I made many trips down Beach Blvd. in Hancock County as I worked with my team of case managers, construction coordinators, […]

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Making a Photograph

Some of my best days are spent walking in the woods with my camera. When I was about 15, I experienced the presence of God in a powerful way while walking the south rim of the Grand Canyon. Our family camped and so there were lots of woods and mountains, streams and lakes, and beaches […]

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Practice Makes Perfect

Therefore, as God’s choice, holy and loved, put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.  Be tolerant with each other and, if someone has a complaint against anyone, forgive each other. As the Lord forgave you, so also forgive each other.  And over all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.  The […]

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