Cenacle Journal
Posted in All Shall Be Well, Suffering on Jan 23rd, 2011
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures for ever. Do not forsake the work of your hands. (Psalm 138:8) Where is God when I sink in the swamp or trip in the stairwell? Where is God when I am out of work, or sick, or watching a loved one [...]
Posted in All Shall Be Well, Christmas, Epiphany, In God's Hand on Feb 9th, 2009
(This is a second reflection on the topic of stumbling into the Reign of God.) Two years ago, with the help of Sister Elizabeth, the county housing authority, and a number of generous people, Carol — the mentally ill homeless woman about whom I have written before — finally moved into her own apartment. One [...]
Posted in Advent, All Shall Be Well on Dec 24th, 2007
During breakfast, I learn from the morning paper: • that there are about 118,000 vacancies for registered nurses in the United States; • that the baby of a pregnant woman has died after his mother was kidnapped and set on fire; • that soldiers in the army of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, had been [...]
Posted in All Shall Be Well, Hope on Jun 19th, 2007
When we emerged from Ward’s Super Market into the Florida sunshine, Sister Elizabeth discovered that she had left her sunglasses inside, next to the coffee grinder. She went back to retrieve them while I sat in the car, bored, and stared through the windshield at the backside of a row of newspaper vending boxes. Bored [...]
Posted in All Shall Be Well, Joy, Rest on Feb 18th, 2005
There seems to be a thriving internet market for posters, bumper stickers, lapel buttons, and refrigerator magnets emblazoned with the caption: JESUS IS COMING LOOK BUSYAs tongue-in-cheek as these may be, I fear that the “look busy” injunction taps into something deeply ingrained in the human (or at least the American) psyche. If we are [...]
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