I have often concluded an email note or letter with words such as the following: “May you sense the Presence of the Lord, today.” I remember that Shackleton in writing of his explorations in Antarc
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When Thomas beheld and touched the wounds of Jesus, he cried: ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus responded, in effect.
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Sepia of door at ruined Dunluce Castle in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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We are often drawn to the wrong things for all the wrong reasons, but sometimes for the right reasons too.
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Life is measured by moments and we should make the most of them. And from time to time, something happens: we are arrested by something unusual, something, someone that gets our attention.
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I love this picture by Arthur J. Eisley, 1860-1952 (as I love all paintings that tell a story, that suggest and probe); not sure why. Perhaps the early snowfall that year made me think of it.
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We all need such a place: what author Madeline L’Engle meant in the book of that name, Circle of Quiet.
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We all need such a place for spiritual retreat and restoration, a place of contemplation and peace . . .
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Sometimes you just don't know what to do next, which way to turn.
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We need to form more partnerships and find more friends to help us on our Journey.
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In the New Testament record of St. John (John 21: 1-14) we find Jesus appearing once more to his disciples by the Sea of Tiberias.
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Prayer is talking to God, with God, connecting.
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Just feel like giving thanks and praising my Lord, today.
And I think about the helps that are given for those of us who want to do so.
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Can it be that the end of things paves the way for the beginning of the new? Yet, it’s hard to let go when the new is not yet apparent, has not yet arrived.
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A famous sermon was entitled, 'When Life Caves In, What Then?'
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When there are no answers, only mystery, and when the road seems closed and all bridges back and forward appear to be washed away, one turns to the Friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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A the beautiful historical church, St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
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Frederich Buechner always challenges my faith, inspires my heart and gives new insight into both how to understand and how to say things that are important.
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One doesn't hear so much of late about 'emergence' in Christian Church talk.
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