Dear fellow journeyers on the Way,

Slow Down. Quiet. It’s Advent!

Twenty-two days to wake up to Jesus in your life and in the world.
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Dear fellow Journeyers on the Way,

I recently had a conversation with my best friend from seminary, now a priest in the Diocese of Mississippi, and he was telling me about a new excitement in his life. He described an idea he called “People of the Gift” (by the way, I’m practicing interpretation and imagination at this point – not quoting him).
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Dear fellow pilgrims,

Whenever I tell my “story”, whether it’s simply about growing up, or about good times, or especially when it’s about vocation and coming to an understanding about my being drawn toward ordination, there is one factor that is central and most important. That factor is Camp Weed. Here’s a brief review of the facts:
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Dear fellow journeyers on the Way,

Whether or not you are one who is intentional about making specific “New Years Resolutions” – and whether or not you keep them up for more than a week or two, I hope you will take some quiet time during these next days to reflect. Reflect on the year just past, and on the new one just beginning. Give thanks for the people/things/events for which you have gratitude, and offer prayers for those which disappoint/anger/frustrate you. And please - please vow to do all in your power to increase and support the first batch, and help relieve the second.
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Dear fellow pilgrims on the way,

G. K. Chesterton wrote, in his book Orthodoxy:

A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”, and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning “Do it again” to the sun, and every evening “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that he has the eternal appetite of infancy.

The eternal appetite of infancy – wow, what a wonderful image for God! And I do believe that God makes every daisy, and every sunset, and every person and never tires of making us. God also never tires of coming to us.
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