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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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