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Caramel Corn
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-07-01)
In our small community lives a dog, usually quite hungry and constantly searching for satisfaction. We pour his tasty, (only to him) food marbles into his dish twice a day. At the evening feeding, we drop in just a few ...
Listen for the Ducks
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-07-22)
Meeting people is only the beginning of relating with them. Many meetings are literally, 'bumping into them"'. Like billiard balls, we bump, glance and then roll away to meet others bouncingly. I have met personally with ...
Be-living
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-04-22)
During a question and answer session after a recent retreat presentation, a fellow asked me the difference between faith and believing. Faith in one sense is a virtue, but it is also an orientation or a set of teachings. ...
A New G.P.S.
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-10-21)
When we are lost in our journeys, we are most noticing, most sense- abled. We look for signs, some indications of where we are in terms of where we would like to be. Global Positioning Systems are taking away the experience ...
The Rules
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-12-23)
There were many rules surrounding our behavior at the time I entered the Jesuits, most of which we found humorous. We were not to look into the eyes of our Superiors, but rather at a point slightly above their noses. We ...
It's On!
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-09-02)
I attended a speech recently and the presenter, several times, failed to clear his throat from some congestion and kept talking. I noticed I felt myself clearing my throat and I heard several throats being cleared in ...
Making Waves 2
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-06-03)
There is the catchy statement, "Keep your eye on the prize." I guess everybody has a prize up ahead. Here at Creighton University the prize might be grades, guys/girls, graduation, grad-school, getting out of school all ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Attraction of Opposites
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-07-08)
When I was a young boy I had two inch-high metal dogs standing on a square magnet. When I would move them toward each other, a mysterious force kept them apart. One was black, the other white. They were opposites that did ...