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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”

An early morning gift Appeared in the morning sky. Dressed in seven colours – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Not just one, but two…stealing the attention of the morning sun. Like paparazzi chasing celebrities, Onlookers fetched mobiles for memorable pics. Lining up neatly like soldiers on parade, Almost inaudible, the sound of mobilesContinue reading “Awesome Wonder”

“My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but . . . my mother’s voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. . . That’s the main thing” (Michael Anthony, The Year in San Fernando). Similar to MichaelContinue reading “Spirituality of Tension”

Life is a rhythm. I feel the rhythm of my heart, the rhythm of my breathing. I imagine my internal organs function on a rhythm – blood flowing through arteries and veins, kidneys purifying the blood, muscles expanding and contracting, eyes blinking. Life is a rhythm. The rhythm of flowing rivers, sunshine and cloudiness, ebbContinue reading “Life is a rhythm”

I know well two daughters, full time caregivers of their mothers who suffer from dementia. For several weeks, I witness the light of patience, care and compassion emanating from the words and actions of these daughters.  Even when stretched to the limit by the uncontrollable and unpredictable actions of their mothers, they bend like coconutContinue reading “Sacrifice and Light”

I had a painful conversation with a health care worker. Her eyes communicated physical and emotional weariness. Working non-stop, without vacation since the start of the Corona Virus pandemic. Struggling to balance work, family, church, and personal responsibilities. Her daily clothing is the feeling of being overwhelmed. Underneath her clothing is a painful moral/spiritual dilemmaContinue reading “Christ Like Figures of Health Care Workers”

Like a house, the physical heart has doors called valves. Opening and closing, they rhythmically allow blood in and out of the heart. Like an automatic glass sliding door, these valves open and close, open and close for our entire life.  They permit just the ideal volume of blood into the heart chamber; just theContinue reading “Doors of the Human Heart”