My thoughts and observations of what is and what should be
Thank you Lord for supplying strength. Thank you Lord for allowing calm and peace. Thank you Lord for granting patience. Thank you Lord for imposing humility as to step back and receive patience. Thank you Lord for providing wisdom in the space that patience opened up. Thank you Lord, most of all, for being there, always, no matter the hour. Thank you Lord. Continue Reading...
This hit me tonight. I had to write this now. I have touched on these thoughts, these feelings, these places, this journey I share below, in posts I have written from time to time. This is maybe a deeper dive into that misdirected wandering than some would care to see. Maybe this is garbage you've already read, or a bunch of words that are of no interest to you. Or maybe it's a beacon signalling Continue Reading...
If you find yourself in despair, with more questions than you have answers for, and each second feels like a dreadful eternity, then the questions you are asking yourself are probably closer to the answer than you would care to believe. If you find no answers in the questions you plague yourself all night with, then pray. God knows. God is bigger than the enormity of the problems bogging you down Continue Reading...
I got home from my son's hockey practice earlier this evening. After everyone settled in, I flipped on the Australian Open as background noise while I checked email, FB, the weather, and a few mindless things. My mindless escape from a couple of busy, if not trying, days, was instantly diverted. I felt my heart leap into my throat as I read Mark DiMarzio's post first. My hopes of some alternate Continue Reading...
Silent Night. The most famous Christmas song of all-time. The lyrics of this song started as a poem written in the early 19th century by an Austrian priest. At the time the little village on the Salzach River was split with half going to Bavaria and half going to Austria in the same year the poem was written. Today the village on the border of Germany and Austria has around 5,500 residents nestled Continue Reading...
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Away in a manger,No crib for His bedThe little Lord JesusLaid down His sweet head Maybe you have a baby, or maybe someone else's baby is the one, isn't there or wasn't there a baby you have been around that was just the cutest thing you ever saw. You looked upon this baby and thought what a sweet little baby. Look at those little toes and fingers. Look at that tiny nose and so on it goes. Imagine Continue Reading...
I sit here with a heavy heart and tears in my eyes, as I cannot seem to make myself move a muscle. This is another tribute piece, not much different from one I wrote just weeks ago. Some of this is unchanged as truths and observations needn't be corrected or updated here. That said, this is specifically and uniquely a tribute to the life of Dennis Traynor. He was taken from us all before we would Continue Reading...
I know the Little Drummer Boy doesn't qualify as a Christmas hymn but I am including it in my series here. Based on the fact that several versions of this song appear in my YouTube Christmas Playlist, I am going to say this song is absolutely one of my favorites. I have included a couple of versions of the song in these links. It's the tune, the percussion, the words, the meanings behind it all Continue Reading...
Once again I received a simple email from my mother and it prompted a post to my blog. It seems that emails from mom have this tendency. I love it mom, don’t stop sending them and thanks for always reading what I write here. Anyhow, I watched and listened to this video several times on Friday when I first received it. The words are powerful. The meaning is clear. The added visual of video Continue Reading...