A Running Father

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Does your Father run? Mine does.

My father loved me dearly and though I don’t remember him literally running to hug me, I have vivid memories of running sprints with my father one day in our front yard. I was just beginning to rise into to my youthful-athletic-prime, and he was getting close to the end of his.  But guess who won the sprints?  Yep…my old man. Continue reading

LAUGHING & PASSION — BEAUTY & JOY

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A quote from St Francis of Assisi on his feast day:

“Yes, I will console any creature before me that is not laughing or full of passion for their art or life: for laughing and passion — beauty and joy– is our heart’s truth, all else is labor and foreign to the soul.” Continue reading

Action Speak Louder Than Words

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2016, A Jubilee Year of Mercy

Did you know that the word MERCY and the other words that are closely associated with this term is used over 400 times in the bible?!  It is a monumental theme in the scripture,

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