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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 ...
Hands and Faces
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-08-12)
A natural physical response to making a mistake or in other ways looking foolish or humiliated is to cover our countenance with our hands. This would literally be a "face-saving" device. Shame is losing face or in some way ...
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 ...
Statistics Class
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-05-13)
It is normal to want to know how we're doing. We often ask people in greeting just how they are doing. They normally do not give you anything but a standard flat answer of being "pretty good" or "could do better", or a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Take and Give
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-05-20)
When I was a young Jesuit, we would end our morning Mass at seven, followed by fifteen minutes of thanksgiving on our knees. Our chapel was just down the hall from the kitchen where breakfast was being prepared. It was ...
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 ...
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 ...