Caught Up in God

The only thing to be done now,
now that the waves of our undoing have begun to strike on us,
is to contain ourselves.
To keep still, and let the wreckage of ourselves go,
let everything go, as the wave smashes us,
yet keep still, and hold
the tiny grain of something that no wave can wash away,
not even the most [...]

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During the sexual abuse crisis, the retired archbishop of San Francisco, Most Rev. John R. Quinn, wrote:
“I believe, in fact, that this is the best time in the history of the church to be a priest, because it is a time when there can be only one reason for being a priest or for remaining [...]

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Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, ‘Let me go, for the day is breaking.’
But Jacob said, [...]

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As frequently happens, yesterday I found something for which I’d been futilely searching only while looking for an entirely different item. It was a clipping I had cut out of the paper years ago, containing a quotation from Van Cliburn on what is necessary for a career as a pianist.
“I think,” he said, “the most [...]

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In Sunday School, when I was a child, we used to sing the spiritual, “Lord, I want to be a Christian.” If you don’t know the words, this is how it begins:
Lord, I want to be a Christian
in my heart, in my heart,
Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart…
I enjoyed singing [...]

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