“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven”. Matthew 18:3 After leaving the minor seminary when I was 17, I always had this sense that there was an unfilled spiritual vocation. A few years after my mother passed away, when I was I in […]
“He told them: ‘Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt”. Luke 9: 3 When I was 21, my life was unfolding before me, day by day. I was knocking on doors, making cold calls as an agent with Met Life, thinking I could convince people twice my […]
“I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly” John 10: 10 One of the challenges some people have in responding to organized religion is a concern that they have got to “get right” with God to have any prosperity in this world and a good life in the hereafter. Many […]
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store way in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Matthew 6:26-27 I recall a Labor Day more […]
Remembering Spending High School Years in Savannah GA 1965-1968August 18, 2024 - 2:45 pmSeveral weeks ago, Stephanie and I spent a couple of days in Savannah, GA, staying at the DeSoto Hotel on Liberty Street in the downtown historic district. Through the years, splendid work has been achieved, particularly with the help of SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) in historic preservation, including renovation of the DeSoto. […]