It’s Not Easy
But the love revealed in Jesus, simple as it sounds, is terribly arduous. That is why the history of our faith so often reads like a history of our resistance to love. Give us rules….
Category: Friends
With Gratitude for Tammie
Sam Cook
Today’s One-Liner (#181)
We too are captive: prisoners of barred rooms and closed roads, unable to see our way out of failure, our betrayals and egoisms, our fears that paralyze, our attachments that hold us frozen. –John Kavanaugh,…
Today’s One-Liner (#177)
“I’d rather see a sermon lived than talked.” –An old woman from North Saint Louis, quoted by John Kavanaugh, The Word Encountered: Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures, 86
Proust Was Obviously before Your Time…
When he wrote— L’artiste qui renonce à une heure de travail pour une heure de causerie avec un ami sait qu’il sacrifie une réalité pour quelque chose qui n’existe pas.—Le temps retrouvé [The artist who…
Remembering Andrew Wimmer by Suzanne Renard
Suzanne gave me permission to post the following text she wrote one day after Andrew died at Barnes Jewish Hospital, A text I sent Marcia, Jan 23, 2024. As I listen to the outpouring of…
The Good News Is …
Led Pelvis
A Note from Natalie Long
I’m reading “The Sayings of the Desert Fathers”. This excerpt, recounted in the section on Abba Poemen, reminded me of Father Zossima. 34. Another brother questioned him in these words: What does, “See that none…
Today’s One-Liner (#108)
Nothing is more difficult to overcome than the problems we thought were already overcome.–Alexis de Tocqueville, via my friend Suzanne Renard
Dear Annie and Lindsay
I was earlier going through a 2016-17 Moleskine commonplace book I kept, and came across the following passages I transcribed from Harold Bloom’s book, How to Read and Why. I hope you may enjoy at…