To begin with, as I say, my introduction to golf came when I started swinging myself out of my shoes with that old cut-down ladies’ club at age three and was taken by my father to the golf course, where I was permitted to ride on his lap while he was mowing fairways with gangmowersContinue reading “Together on a Stretch of Green”
Category Archives: Meditations
Go Forth to Meet Him
Monday Merton Musings, December 19, 2011 Go Forth to Meet Him The week before Christmas has arrived. The words we hear from Thomas Merton today for our weekly meditation are brief but searching. For Christmas will come this year, just as it did long ago in Bethlehem. As on that occasion, some will be readyContinue reading “Go Forth to Meet Him”
Another Look: Living in the In-Between
NOTE: Advent started Sunday, and the sky has been falling here ever since. Rain, rain, and more rain; followed by falling temperatures and snow. It has been all haze and fog and spray coming up off the road on my windshield. Perpetual gray. Gloom. Each day has been a “I want to crawl under theContinue reading “Another Look: Living in the In-Between”
The Cruelest Month
Yesterday, the wind blew strong from the west, colder and more piercing as the day went by. The sky was a wild migration of stampeding clouds, many dark as slate and angry. Leaves blew everywhere. Color is thinning and soon the treetops will be as bare as an old man’s pate. All will be brown,Continue reading “The Cruelest Month”
Meditations from Gethsemani
Monday Merton Musings, Oct 31, 2011 Meditations from Gethsemani It is good to be back with you, my friends. Thank you for understanding my need for a sabbatical. The past few months have been among the most intense and draining of my life. My edges were becoming all frayed and sparks flew whenever I gotContinue reading “Meditations from Gethsemani”
Wednesday Morning
By Chaplain Mike Monday, he spent five or six hours with a friend whose spouse, also a friend, had died. He sat while the grieving husband puttered and dealt with details. He made small talk, answered a few questions, and waited for an OK to call the funeral home. Tuesday, he attended another death, thisContinue reading “Wednesday Morning”
Angels Unaware
By Chaplain Mike The hospice chaplain walked into the room, finally seeing the patient he had put off visiting all day. It is not that he had been hesitant. The patient, Mr. Gibbs, was scheduled to be transferred to a bed in the hospice unit, but earlier in the day, he heard that they wereContinue reading “Angels Unaware”
Icarus All We Are
By Chaplain Mike Day and night you punished me, Lord; my strength was completely drained, as moisture is dried up by the summer heat. • Psalm 32:4 (GNT) Icarus all we are this July. This map shows the heat index forecast for today, during which a large part of the U.S. will be above 100°.Continue reading “Icarus All We Are”
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