Cenacle Journal
Posted in Darkness, In God's Hand, On the Road on Sep 1st, 2009
Wise counsel is sometimes found in unexpected places. The following is from Maisie Dobbs (the first in a series of Maisie Dobbs mysteries by Jacqueline Winspear):
Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions… Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusion, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.
Notice that here the [...]
Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.
For with the judgment you make you will be judged,
and the measure you give will be the measure you get.
(Matthew 7:1-2)
The internet has made me more aware than ever of our human tendency to judge each other, although I doubt that more judging is going on [...]
An old Jewish story goes something like this:
A wise rabbi once asked his students, “How do you know when the night is over and the day has dawned?
One answered, “When you can look at an animal in the distance and tell whether it is a sheep or a dog?”
“No,” said the rabbi.
Another said, “Is it [...]
“What word would you use to describe life?” Josh says to his daughter.
“Peace,” she replies. “Or perhaps joy.”
After a moment she asks him, “What about your own word for life?”
“You wouldn’t want to hear it.”
No, she probably wouldn’t. The word he is thinking of is “futility.”
Josh, you may remember, is the ex-Christian with whom I [...]
Posted in Darkness on Aug 6th, 2005
Because Carol, the homeless woman, is outside most of the time, Sister Elizabeth gave her a sunhat. She left very pleased with the hat, but a couple of blocks from here, her bicycle hit a slick spot on the road, and she fell. The hat landed a little distance from her. As [...]
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