I learned of a potential physical challenge a year ago in August 2022. From the beginning, I have prayed the leper’s prayer, which he pleaded to Jesus, “If you choose, you can make me clean.” From the beginning, I believe I was chosen to be made clean. That conviction was validated yesterday morning when I …
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I have heard your prayer…
It is easy to fall into a funk when one encounters physical and mental difficulties. The more severe the difficulties, the easier it is to succumb to the darkness. My daughter and two grandsons came to visit this week. When she asked, “How are you?” I broke down for the first time in a while. …
Dealing with Cancer #5, Pray
Lesson #5 Pray The power of prayer is obvious in each of our lives whether or not you are free, open, and willing to acknowledge it. For years on our home page, we have featured a quote from the late Irish poet, writer, and spiritualist John O’Donohue. “Prayer is the presence that holds harmony in …
Prayerful Momentum
Many years ago during a trip to Haiti, I had the pleasure and honor of sharing dinner with Patrice Millet, a CNN Hero of the Year in 2011. As we chatted over dinner, Patrice told me the final thing he did every day with the children and young people he worked with was to pray. …
Core Message
Every Saturday morning, the Pray As You Go website presents an examen, a Jesuit tradition involving reflection on and moral evaluation of one’s thoughts and conduct. I find this morning’s examen particularly inviting. In it, I am asked, “If you had the chance to give just one sermon, what would be your core message in …
Light a Candle
As time passes, I become more grateful for the many blessings bestowed upon me through the grace of God. Many of those blessings come from people, some I know, others may be strangers, but their positive effect on my life is undeniable… like the grace of God. Ten years ago, a young attorney friend who …
Crossing Paths with Angels
The medication to relieve my BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia [enlarged prostate]) has not been effective. Passing urine and bowel movements have been erratic and hardly successful. I made a good decision late last week when I followed the advice of my friend and Mrs. tVM and scheduled an appointment with my VA medical team for …
We Are Never Alone
The Lenten season is a special one. By definition, Lent is a period of 40 days when Christians remember the events leading up to the passion and death of Jesus. The 40 days are called Lent after the old English word “lengðu” meaning ‘lengthen’ because Lent occurs as we approach summer when the days start …
Facing Difficult Times
Everyone faces difficulties and challenges that often seem insurmountable… challenges that drop us helplessly to our knees. During those times, we have only two choices. Rise up, or stay down. I choose to face difficult situations. Prayer and meditation are my tools to rise up. For that very reason, our home page encourages readers to …
The Song of Amergin
It is said that The Song of Amergin is the first poem of Ireland. I discovered it almost a decade ago as I began research for my book Gaspar, Another Tale of the Christ. Historically, Ireland was never conquered by a foreign invader. We know for certain that Ireland was never a part of the …