Often it feels as though the world is turned on its head. Yet, we all yearn for the calm and stillness of that “Silent Night,” when everything and everyone is resting full-bellied in warmth and safety. Isaiah prophesies about Jesus as “the Prince of Peace.” But, what does Jesus tell us about the peace he brings? Read more
Not everything Mother Nature creates makes sense; take mosquitoes or poison ivy for instance. Nature evolves, as we do through trial and error. So, we – mother and child – are growing each other up. Read more
A popular aphorism cynically holds that “Life is a bitch (i.e. struggle), then you die.” This resonates because most of us are familiar with the suffering that comes from lack or longing, as well as, the tension and distress that accompany it. Such tension comes in a myriad of forms. Read more
It is 4:44 AM and I know I have been dreaming furiously for some time. All kinds of philosophical, scientific, artistic, theological and mystical notions have been swirling about in my head. But they have been coming in elegantly complete sentences; almost as if I was being tutored by a most articulate teacher. Read more
How have we both advanced and regressed the Jesus myth in the 2,000 years since the original event in Bethlehem? How can we properly understand the importance of myth as deep truth in story form? Read more
What happens to our growing spirituality when we set our energy and intentions on the future and invest in a specific outcome? Read more
It was the weirdest sensation. He had once heard the boy’s father ask teasingly, “Where does the light go when you blow out the candle?” Now he felt himself asking, “Where does a bubble go when its surface tension snaps?” He didn’t know. There wasn’t even a him to not know. Read more
Growing up in Ireland in the 1940’s and 50’s, there was a wonderful Catholic custom on the feast of All Souls. Each time you visited a church and offered an “Our Father”, “Hail Mary” and “Glory be” for the pope’s intentions, you gained a plenary indulgence, to spring a soul out of purgatory and send it on to heaven. Read more
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, purgatory comes from the Latin ‘purgare’ to make clean, to purify, a place of temporal punishment for those who depart life in God's grace, but have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions. To us young children purgatory promised a little less fire than Hell. Read more
I remember well the day I fell in love with geometry. I was 10 or 11 years old and had recently been exposed to it in school. At first it was merely another subject, like geography or English Literature, and it didn’t seem any more useful than either of those. Read more
Companions on the Journey
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