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Archive for November, 2010
A New Home For The Holy Rover
Posted in Holy Rover blog on November 13, 2010 |
Some Thoughts On Zenyatta
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged horse racing, horses, Zenyatta on November 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been traveling again—this time to Louisville, Kentucky, where I spent several days following in the footsteps of Thomas Merton. More on that next week. But I also spent a day touring some horse-related sites (for if you’re in Kentucky, horses loom large). So a few thoughts on those horses today. First, I think I [...]
In Honor of Ben Hill
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today being Veterans Day, I want to tell you a little bit about the veteran I am remembering today—someone I never met, but a man who has been an invisible presence for me ever since I visited the National World War I Museum in Kansas City last March (I wrote about the museum here). Ben [...]
Reconcile Yourself To Wait in This Darkness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cloud of Unknowing on November 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Do not give up then, but work away at it till you have this longing. When you first begin, you find only darkness, and as it were a cloud of unknowing. You don’t know what this means except that in your will you feel a simple steadfast reaching out towards God. Do what you will, [...]
When You Find That Feeling, Stay With It
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Joseph Campbell on November 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
You may have success in life, but then ask yourself — what kind of life was it? What good was it if you’ve never done the thing you wanted to do all your life or went where your heart and soul wanted to go? When you find that feeling, stay with it, and don’t let [...]
Dancing Under the Gallows
Posted in Judaism, Music, Videos, tagged Holocaust survivor on November 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It is marvelous, is it not, what YouTube brings to us? Oh, I know it has way too many videos of people acting stupid and of terriers dancing to disco music, but then you come across something that is so beautiful and so transporting that you forgive it for all the sludge. Today I’m linking [...]
The Work of the Soul
Posted in Angels on November 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is the work of the soul that pleases God most. All saints and angels rejoice over it, and hasten to help it on with all their might…. The whole of humankind is wonderfully helped by what you are doing, in ways you do not understand. The Cloud of Unknowing (14th century, author [...]
A Truly Ecumenical Initiative
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged humor on November 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s Friday, folks, so here’s a story that should warm the heart of anyone who supports ecumenical dialogue. Credit for the breaking news goes to Newsbiscuit. In a surprise twist to the search to discover the origins of he universe Pope Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams are to be fired at one [...]
Something Lovely This Way Comes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged babies, poetry on November 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Is there any happiness more jubilant than the conception of a much-longed for baby? I don’t think so. And that’s why I want to share this poem with you, one written by a dear friend, Rebecca Christian, about her newest grandchild. The baby is yet to be born, but oh, how much happiness this little [...]
O Beauty Ever Ancient, Ever New
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged St. Augustine on November 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. [...]
