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Christmas 2025

For the past 60 years, I have been sending out a Christmas message to as many people as I had addresses for. But now that I am almost 97 and have just moved into Assisted Living at Casa Celeste in Seminole, Florida, I am fighting the temptation to “fageddaboudit,” as they used to say in…

AN ADVENT MEDITATION FOR DECEMBER 2025

Here is a beautiful piece borrowed from Mirabai Starr of the Center For Action and Contemplation: Saying Yes to Our Lives Mirabai Starr recounts how she came to say yes to God in her life as it is instead of how she imagined it should be:”All my life, I have been enamored of the God-intoxicated…

The Sermon on the Mount is About Life on Earth, not in Heaven

Today, Richard Rohr’s meditation stated succinctly and clearly an insight into spirituality that I have been pondering for fifty years, but have never been able to express as clearly as today’s meditation did. We were often taught that Jesus was talking about: “Blessed are the poor, the meek, those who suffer, those who grieve, etc.,…

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