“There is no single definition of holiness: there are dozens, hundreds. But there is one I am particularly fond of: being holy means getting up immediately every time you fall, with humility, and joy. It doesn’t mean never falling into sin. It means...
Some poets appear on the horizon with a poem, and then disappear, with little else known about them except for that one poem. William Hurd Hillyer (1880-c.1931) is one such poem. We know when he was born, but not sure when he died. But when he published “My Master’s...
As soon as you enter my home we have named “Dolphin Cay,” on the floor there is a mosaic of “St. Brendan’s Cross,” an Irish “fish cross” made of four dolphins or whales. There are many apocryphal seafaring stories about St. Brendan, who according to one of the legends...
A Hebrew scholar once noted that the first word of the Ten Commandments is “I” and the last word is “neighbor” To access this post, you must purchase Standard Membership, Standard Membership - Yearly, Video Membership, Video Membership - Yearly, Coaching Membership,...
If you need a Good Samaritan story, here is R. Bruce McPherson’s “A Tire Iron Parable” One morning in early November I was driving north on the Dan Ryan Expressway toward the Loop in our relatively new car, alone with my thoughts and National Public Radio. Suddenly my...
This is an old parable but it always touches me and reminds me that we find in life what we are looking for. Two birds that fly over the California desert are the vulture and the hummingbird. All the vulture can see is rotting meat because that is all it… To...
