do good

Remember! When you’re in a position to help someone be glad and do it. That’s God answering someone else’s prayer.

Through you.

Because your terrible job is the dream of the unemployed.

Your house is the dream of the homeless.

Your smile is the dream of the depressed.

Your health is the dream of those who are ill.

Therefore, don’t let any opportunity to do good go undone and don’t let your difficulties make you forget your blessings.

Somewhere safe with somebody good

Oh, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person: having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them out. Just as they are – chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Dinah Maria (Murlock) Craik, 1826-1887

What does a person want?

I believe, as one of Jan Karon’s books is so aptly titled, we want to be somewhere safe with somebody good.

But what does that mean?

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at the well

I have been so grateful to be in Arizona this month.  

Especially because the desert – a place of preparation & purification – has been very fitting as we’ve entered the Lenten Season. 

Traditionally, the desert has been a place of preparation & purification for Abraham, Moses, Jesus and so many others in our Sacred Tradition.

Why? Because what is in the desert?

Not a whole lot!”

(Said a kind priest to me recently.)

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