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Category Archives: self-in-service
Of Presidents, popcorn, and pus— but no poem: a lesson in lectio
I’m currently reading 12 books—actually, 11. One “book” on my list is the Sacred Text Archive online, which contains hundreds of scripture-type books. But Internet reading ain’t the same, is it? You see, I’ve got all this time … Continue reading
No fault Father’s Day 2008
My family of origin was DYSfunctional. Like most of my blood relatives, Mom was an alcoholic. Dad chose to stay away from home a lot of the time. Having learned a little Freud, I blamed my mother for some of … Continue reading
Attitude of Gratitude
You dig out of a hole many different ways. The truth is, often it’s somebody else who gives you a hand up. In Lord of the Rings, the movies, a hand up is an important symbol. Frodo gives Sam a … Continue reading
Facing 60
My first 20 years I lived at the foot of the Franklin Mountains in El Paso, Texas. But the past 40 years I’ve lived in Kentucky, Indiana and Virginia. I still feel drawn to the quiet darkness of the Socorro … Continue reading
The Mourning After
My friend is gone, the house is still, I’ve slept around the clock almost twice. How Sandy, who resumed 10 hour days Wednesday, manages I don’t know. I hoped to write about his stay, but like an Orthodox Jew on … Continue reading
Posted in self-in-service, social issues, Spiritual life
Tagged C.F. Andrews, Gandhi, poverty, Shawshank Redemption
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A Love Note to my Fellow Wiggles
Original Date? Unknown CS Lewis’ irrepressible marshwiggle Puddleglum is one of my heroes. (You’ll find him in The Silver Chair, one of the Narnia books.) For depressives like me and Puddleglum, regret’s a cinch, a jaunt in the never never … Continue reading
Suffering
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2008 The Savior of Zvenigorod, ca. 1384 by Andrei Rublev, greatest of the medieval Russian Orthodox icon painters. Henri Nouwen, the gay Catholic writer, discusses this icon in Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Praying with … Continue reading