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Sending Forth
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-07-15)
In many cases, parting is a true sorrow and in other cases there is a sweetness. I noticed something recently about which I have smiled often. Leaving can be quite a lengthy sorrow, because of how much time it takes to ...
Making Waves
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-04-15)
I was sitting recently on the end of a pier at a beautiful lake in northern Wisconsin. A quite large speed boat zoomed by and a little while later its noisy waves began slapping my contemplative shore. Then a canoe with ...
Lights Off
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-10-14)
I have a friend who is gravitationally challenged, that is he's God's little acre. He figures that according to Einstein's theory, energy results from MC squared, so that the more the mass the more the energy. He is ...
Let's Get Personal
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-07-29)
Two of my Jesuit brothers were walking along the beach near Santa Barbara, California. They met a man standing in the water fishing. One of these two asked the man what the name of this river was. The man looked quite ...
Stick to Your Knitting
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-09-30)
There are many warnings and well-justified, about "texting" and even hand-held cell-phone use while driving. Having two eyes and only two hands is definitely a distracting limitation. Multi-tasking usually is a multi-masking ...
All the Better to Hear You, My Dear
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-04-29)
I had a Philosophy teacher who mentioned to us one day that the reason birds didn't talk to each other was that they had nothing to say. The little chirpers outside my window seem not to have been listening to that wise ...
A Well-Wrapped Gift
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-10-28)
"Slow as molasses in January" is an old saying used to indicate a lack of speed, usually employed by somebody who is experiencing impatience with another. Not all old sayings are accurate.|In Boston, on a rather warm ...
Prayer-Time
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-04-08)
There is an amazing chemical which doctors use to put people "under" for a short time for various procedures. They needle your arm and ask you to count backwards from one hundred. I did not make it to one hundred. When I ...
May I Have a Menu Please?
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-06-10)
The seven members of our small community had to go out to dinner recently, because the automatic dishwasher, after twenty-five years, gave up the soapy ghost. Why didn't we just wash the dinner dishes by hand? We're not ...
What Do We Really Want?
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-12-09)
During these Advent days leading to the Day of the Mass of Christ's Birth, there is in song and story a huge celebration of the un-huge. Rudolf, the rosy-nosed unwanted who saves the night for Santa and his prejudiced ...