Cenacle Journal
Posted in Acceptance on Jul 30th, 2009
You would think that with all the forms we fill out, both online and off, we would know who we are. Although if we stop to think about it, we may realize that the information required to open a Google account or to get a new credit card or to buy a book on Amazon.com [...]
Posted in Acceptance, Christmas, Grace on Dec 23rd, 2008
The poet U. A. Fanthorpe pictures the shepherds and the Magi – those familiar visitors to the infant Jesus – walking “haphazard by starlight straight/Into the kingdom of heaven”: This was the moment when Before Turned into After, and the future’s Uninvented timekeepers presented arms. This was the moment when nothing Happened. Only dull peace [...]
Posted in Acceptance, Forgiveness, Mercy on Apr 8th, 2006
Here are two things Jesus never says to us: First, Jesus never says, I’ll wait until your faith is perfect before loving you. Consider the distraught father in Mark 9:17-29, who brings his son to be healed. The boy has been having convulsions, even falling into the fire. The disciples of Jesus have not been [...]
Posted in Acceptance on Mar 26th, 2006
For three years during the 1990s, I was assigned to the Chicago Cenacle, which is on Fullerton Parkway not far from Clark Street. For most of that time, there was a beggar whose self-designated post was just outside the Walgreens on Clark Street. He was an elderly African-American — or at least he seemed elderly [...]
Posted in Acceptance, On the Road on Feb 20th, 2005
Two Saturdays ago when I went downstairs, sounds of cheering were coming from the street. I looked out the front window to see a marathon going by. It turned out to be the “Great Gainesville Road Race” that is held every year. There was no small number of runners, and they were a whole microcosm [...]
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