At 3 a.m. I awoke to the sound of my wife screaming. There was a tree roach in our bed. I made a couple of attempts to kill/capture the creature. He kept escaping under the bed. Eventually, I told my wife there was no way […]
Category: The Spiritual
Quit Whining
2020 has surely sucked. I have been stuck in a pandemic. My wife has been fighting cancer. Our fiftieth wedding anniversary had to be “celebrated” alone. It’s been bad. But others have had it worse. Lake Charles an hour away by interstate has been demolished. […]
The Power of Listening
There is nothing so heart-wrenching as the cry of someone in pain, “nobody listens.” God has placed in each of us a need to be heard, a passion to communicate. Ultimately, this need is a call to Him. There is nothing more powerful and affirming […]
Immovable
I can’t believe how fast time is moving. No doubt the older you get, the faster it goes. It’s not just time that’s flying. The world seems like it’s sliding down a mountainside. At first, it was just a bit of instability but as it […]
Be Proud to be a Kohathites
It’ been kind of a rough week. One of my favorite ladies at my church died. She survived only a short time after her diagnosis. She was a “frontier” woman. She raised her family alone. She raised animals. There seemed nothing she couldn’t do. At […]
The Wimpiest Generation
My Dad’s generation has been rightly called, “The Greatest Generation.” After all, they defeated Nazism, Fascism, and Communism at least for their times. They came back from the war and educated themselves and re-built America. They were fearless. This generation seems scared of its own […]
Why Am I Still Alive?
A few months ago I started taking the local papers: The Advertiser and The Advocate. I skim both papers every day. I do the Sudoku puzzles in both. It’s my desperate attempt to keep mentally alert at 71. The other thing I do because of […]
RIchard Rohr on the Book of Job
I receive Fr. Richard Rohr’s postings each day. Frankly, I don’t usually read them. It’s not that I disagree with them. It’s that most of them are over my head, spiritually speaking. At 2 a.m., this morning I woke and, is my custom, I […]