Cenacle Journal
Posted in Contemplation, Gratitude, Mystery on Oct 10th, 2007
Sometimes I feel like a spiritual beachcomber. This is not necessarily bad, it seems to me, because small gems are there for the finding, if the heart’s eyes are open. On my bookcase sit the following treasures picked up during a walk along the beach not far from our Cenacle in Lantana, Florida: a piece [...]
Gifts come in all shapes. A few days ago the back doorbell rang. I went to answer it, but no one was there. Then as I stood there it rang again — with no one pushing it. That in itself was no mystery. Sometimes a particularly vigorous finger on the button will make the bell [...]
Posted in Gratitude on Feb 26th, 2005
When I was in graduate school, an acquaintance of mine was stranded with no place to stay, so I offered to let her sleep on my sofa for several days. Yes, it would have been more hospitable to have given her the bed, but in retrospect, it’s probably just as well that I didn’t, because [...]
Posted in Cenacle, God Among Us, Gratitude on Feb 26th, 2005
[This was written in 2000, shortly after our arrival in Gainesville.] The Cenacle is making its small beginnings in Gainesville. Two of us arrived a couple of weeks ago, and two others will come the end of August. For now we are engaged in the ministry of pots and pans, of mop and broom, instead [...]
Posted in Creation, Gratitude, Immersed in God on Feb 19th, 2005
Yesterday, after supper, I crossed the levee to the lake, for the first time in a couple of weeks. The two herons were there — not the great blue, but very lovely all the same, and not at all afraid of me. As the three of us were facing into the stiff, stiflingly hot north [...]
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