October 25, 2009
October 25, 2009
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Waiting for the Light

This week I’ve been thinking about blissful ignorance — the kind of willful blindness we sometimes embrace in our humanness because seeing the truth is just too painful, or unexpected, or unsettling, or, well, icky. Among believers, it can become a kind of spiritual schitzophrenia. The kind that sees with blazing clarity the splinter in the eye of those outside our immediate spiritual circle, but cannot bear to acknowledge our own shortcomings. Scriptures twisted and pulled like so much salt water taffy, or isolated into submission like a single stubborn branch on a topiary. There comes a time, however, when we have to ask ourselves: What […]
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March 20, 2009
March 20, 2009
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Weekend Ponderings: Let Your Life Shine!

From this weekend’s Gospel reading (John 3:14-21). “And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.” While he was on earth, Jesus declared himself to be “the way, the truth and the life.” And yet so often, even as Christians, we make our own way, define our […]
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January 9, 2009
January 9, 2009
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Weekend Ponderings: Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

  Our children were baptized on May 31, 2005. We waited three long years to do it, and the waiting had not been easy. Especially in the first few months, I was tempted more than once to toss them both in the baptismal font in sheer frustration. It was ironic that it was while we were in church that I felt the need for grace most strongly the first weeks we had the kids. Baptizing them right away wasn’t an option; as their foster parents, we couldn’t even get their hair cut without the permission of a social worker. So each week I’d trot them up for a blessing when I […]
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December 26, 2008
December 26, 2008
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Weekend Ponderings…

In the coming year, I’d like to spend more time reflecting on the Scriptures through the lens of extraordinary motherhood. Throughout the Gospels, we encounter figures who are largely hidden, taking center stage for the briefest moments before returning to the shadows. Their reward, you see, was not an earthly one … any more than ours is. And yet, there is much we can learn from them if we only have “ears to hear.” And so, on this the last weekend of the year, I introduce you to one of the EMs of the Gospel: Anna the Prophetess. From this weekend’s readings, taken from the second […]
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