Chosen, Broken, Blessed and Given
I receive the daily meditations from a Henry Nouwen website. Recently they have featured a daily series from his book, Bread for the Journey – A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith. These are four of the...
View ArticleThe Germination Time
There are two sides to most seed packets. One provides the potential beauty and fullness of what the seeds can produce. The other side presents the optimum conditions for this growth and the...
View ArticleStart Again At Your Beginnings
When life is hard and courage is needed, there is a poem by Rudyard Kipling that gives strength. Kipling (1865-1938) was born in India and later moved to England. His many books and writings are...
View ArticleNature – God’s Revelation
Amidst all the activities, busyness, and plans of summer, we are invited to pause and revel in the Mystery of God! Our Christian and Franciscan tradition tells us that Divine Revelation comes through...
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Under the Veil
“After receiving Jesus in the Eucharist, I went back to my seat to pray. I was overcome with a sense of the veil caressing my cheek being that of the Blessed Mother’s. She was cradling me on her lap as...
View ArticleFive Year Plan
I have read recently on social media and other places reminders that it is important to map out my five year goals. A reminder that if I don’t, I will continue to be where I am right now. And so I...
View ArticleMurmuring, Quarreling and More Murmuring
In the liturgical calendar of the Church it is customary to include, during Year B, the Bread of Life discourse as found in the gospel of John. We have been hearing over the past Sundays from the...
View ArticleHarvesting Blessings
It is so very common these days to hear people talk about the abundance, the over-abundance of gardens and fields! What will we do with all these tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, squash, corn, etc? For...
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Peace
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Matthew 5:9 Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. St. Francis of Assisi Without being peace, we cannot do anything for...
View ArticleThe Potter’s House
Like the prophet Jeremiah, I went off to the potter’s house to watch and learn and reflect on the process of pottery making. Actually, I attended a workshop that focused on the image in Jeremiah...
View ArticleDead End Roads
On a beautiful September Saturday morning, my family and I found ourselves on a spontaneous country drive. I have always been a fan of a dead end road, and when I saw one on our drive that day I chose...
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Fall 2015 Newsletter
This quarterly newsletter includes a listing of upcoming programs and events for the fall through the New Year. Click the image on the left to download the PDF or try this link.
View ArticleFinding God in Nature
It was the end of June when we got the call from our son that the bees located on his property had swarmed. Bees do that occasionally, even when you think you have taken care of their every need....
View ArticleLife with the Elements
Recently a group of us gathered for a day of reflection on the topic “Deep Peace with Earth, Water, Air and Fire.” Our setting was on Moon Lake, at Moon Beach Camp in St. Germain, Wisconsin, a perfect...
View ArticleStories We Tell Ourselves
One day seemingly out of nowhere, I made up a story for my son about the “Tree Hill Gang”. A story about a group of 16 women who travel around in a 15 passenger van—one always in a car behind us. We...
View ArticleA Living Tabernacle
When I was expecting my first two children so many years ago, I wasn’t Catholic. I wasn’t a church-goer of any kind. It was my deepest longing to be a mother, and I cherished the pregnancies, but I had...
View ArticleAutumn Clarity
My house sits in the middle of a few acres of land surrounded by a small woods. In the summertime when all is full and green I feel like I am enclosed in a warm, fertile, nurturing womb, closed off...
View ArticleBlessed be the Work of Your Hands
In September I was privileged to attend a Tony Melendez concert held at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Cameron, WI. I heard about Mr. Melendez many years before from my mother. She had seen the...
View ArticleFor the Greater Glory of God
It seems I have so many interesting conversations at our local YMCA. The other morning a young woman and I were talking about I can’t really remember what, but the conversation wound its way to what...
View ArticleFertility of Silence
Recently this phrase, fertility of silence, came across in my reading. It began a new awareness, and an interesting message to ponder! This past weekend at the Center, two groups of guests revealed the...
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