desiring God … listening, waiting
Posted on Nov 24, 2023
Friday, November 24, 2023 Memorial of Saint Andrew Dung-Lac, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) And now, on the day after All day we cooked and ate, along with family in Austin and friends from Kazakhstan, who celebrate their one year anniversary in America next month. We...
Thursday, November 23, 2023 Thanksgiving Day in the USA (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Being thankful Emily Dickinson wrote a poem. I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! They’d advertise – you know! I hope at our Thanksgiving...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 Memorial of Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, Dallas, Texas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A woman and her sons It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips by the king, to force...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Three older men I suppose, at age 74, that I might be midway between the old man Eleazar, age 90, and the middle-aged man Zaccheus. Reflecting on my own 3 AMs, I...
Posted on Nov 20, 2023
Monday, November 20, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Trouble, trouble, trouble In the second century BCE, Antiochus IV, a Greek king over Israel and Jerusalem, erected a horrible abomination upon the altar of burnt offerings. Alexander the Great died and his kingdom was divided into four parts, as Daniel...
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 19, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Married, with children Margaret and I met around a gas tank on Dad’s farm in Lincoln, Illinois. She was from Kentucky, and she didn’t realize what she was getting into when she accepted Dad’s offer to walk...
Posted on Nov 18, 2023
Preview (opens in a new tab)Saturday, November 18, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Which apple should I eat? Late last night, falling asleep after a long birthday, I ate an apple. An “Envy” apple. That apple, tasty as it was, really belonged in a fairy tale, poisoned by a...
Posted on Nov 17, 2023
Friday, November 17, 2023 Memorial of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious David’s 74th birthday! (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Living in the land of Elizabeth On the day the Son of Man is revealed, someone who is on the housetop must not go down to the field to get his...
Posted on Nov 16, 2023
Thursday, November 16, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Jasper and Miles rescue their family! Yesterday I surprised myself when I thought much more than I expected about the snails we buried. Their little white shells kept coming back to mind. I saw them on their tree and on the...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Rest in peace The lowly may be pardoned out of mercy but the mighty shall be mightily put to the test. The Lord does not fear greatness. Just before lunch Jasper and I went out back to dig. He has a...
