Last week my brother and sister-in-law, who live in Orange Park, flew to Gainesville and picked me up for a trip to Panama City to visit an uncle who is very ill. Although I have flown many times in small aircraft — before I entered the Cenacle, my brother gave me a few flying lessons [...]
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Years ago, “in between church jobs”, as she puts it, Sister Elizabeth was working as a nurse in a chronic diseases hospital in Massachusetts. One of the patients she was caring for was a man who had on his back a sore that went all the way to the bone and from which he was [...]
This past week I had to change planes in Atlanta, and on the way to the gate I decided to buy a frozen yogurt cone. It turned out to be a work of art: the young woman who made it for me beamed when I complimented her on its height and symmetry. So I headed [...]