Author Archives: donalddeanchambers

Today, I chewed on, swallowed, and ruminated on insightful words in Chapter two of Matthew Kelly’s book entitled Life is Messy.  He reflects on the theme, A More Beautiful Question, and asks, “Can something that has been devastatingly broken be put back together in a way that makes it more beautiful than ever before?” Kelly’sContinue reading “From Brokenness to Beauty”

My mother’s doctor advised her, “Exercise for 30 minutes per day.” Exercise, the elixir for hypertension. Reluctantly, she responded to my invitation and promptings to take evening walks. We started with a short walk. She enjoyed it. The next day we went longer. No complaints. As we walk, we talk about life, the past, theContinue reading “God – the Stranger”

TRUST IN LIGHT  INSTEAD OF DARKNESS. LIGHT APPEARS AMID DARKNESS AND ILLUMINES DARKNESS. DARKNESS ONLY DOMINATES WHEN LIGHT DISAPPEARS.  “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

The poor gets poorer. The rich gets richer. That’s the goal of the invented and manufactured economic systems of the West. The poor fights for basic needs and suffers under the pandemic. But the rich benefits from the pandemic. Who will stop this vicious cycle? My friend Jordan McGregor posted on Facebook: “So. . IContinue reading “Revolutionary Spirit”

I received news this morning of the death of a security guard from one of my former parishes. I now feel inundated under a rubble of darkness and despair.  The news of death adds to the litany of global and local troubles. Crime Corruption COVID Sickness Brutal Murder Violence Social unrest War Preparation for warContinue reading “Hope and Light”

Mindful meditation and Christian meditation travel along a similar road. While Christian Meditation (Centering Prayer) arrives at the destination of a deep awareness of God’s presence, mindful meditation arrives at the destination of a singular focus of the mind.  Arrival at their destinations, however, can be erratic, turbulent, and chaotic like the formation of theContinue reading “Meditation”

On the eve of her 95th birthday, Cherry Ray remarked to me, “People talk about our age as the golden age.  What’s so golden about it when you have so many aches and pains and illness!” Our ‘world’ programmes us to believe that the golden years are the youthful years. Those years when we areContinue reading “Golden Age!”

For several days, I have been sleeping on the following words I heard on the BBC World News, “Blessed are the flexible for their lives will not be bent out of shape.”  I am uncertain of the source.   I share with you my rolling thoughts. We dream that every day of our lives will beContinue reading “Flexibility”