Corpus Christi

March 31, 2026.Reading time 9 minutes.

“I haven’t found one open church. It makes me sad—it’s all gone, everything’s gone. Where is God? Where is Jesus? I’m looking for them everywhere, but I can’t find them…”
By Mary M. Isaacs

The God of Order

May 21, 2024.Reading time 7 minutes.

(Image by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash) Ian Wilson (G) It’s easy to get hung up on the details of Genesis while missing the deeper meaning – that our God is a God of order. He is a God who places everything in it’s proper place, who sets a limit for the season and calls the […]

The Fear of the Lord

August 12, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

By Ian Wilson … One of the virtues extolled frequently in Scripture is the fear of the Lord. As Proverbs 9:10 says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.” Therefore, we cannot even begin to have wisdom without the fear of God.

Communication Without Tongues, Part II: In Which We Fail to Listen (Again)

July 8, 2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

By Cordelia Fitzgerald …we, as a human race, are curious. We are also, for the most part, control freaks. We are usually looking for assurance about the things we expect from life, and thus we have receipts, signatures, IOU’s, and contracts.

For Training Purposes this Life May be Monitored

December 7, 2021.Reading time 13 minutes.

Dear Lord, Thank you for this day /
I ask you that I may /
Pray it, Play it, And Work it /
Most to your pleasure

Loving God: A Challenge

August 19, 2021.Reading time 11 minutes.

Too often I see people stagnate in their relationship with God. Too often I see the same stagnation in my own life. But I’ve had an idea – an idea that might seem bizarre, but actually connects to the lives of certain saints. It may be difficult, but I think it’s worth a try.

To God, Who Gives Joy

May 18, 2021.Reading time 9 minutes.

You still approach the Altar as a child
As you once were, and are, and will be forever
For God will have it so, will have you so –
Enchanted by His magic – a little boy

The Mangled Tree

May 15, 2021.Reading time 8 minutes.

She comes back almost every morning to pray aloud and silently beneath the tree. Sometimes, I hear a few words of The Lord’s Prayer carried by the wind to my ears. This must be her sacred space.

Communing With the Eternal

April 1, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

A meal’s prepared,
The Spirit waits to welcome them there,
Or here,

God, Water & Gratitude

March 13, 2021.Reading time 12 minutes.

“You go to Taco Bell, and if you don’t want a Coke, you want ‘just water.’ Just water? JUST water?! It’s the whole reason you’re alive, but it’s free, so you treat it like it’s nothing!”
My friend was on to something.

God’s Swift Love

November 21, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

God’s heart moves at the speed of love.
He is not constrained by the passage of earthly time.
An answer to a plea that may take an eternity to you
is an eternal opening to the gates of grace for him.

Evening – Palm Sunday

April 5, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The waxing moon knows nothing of Holy Week
And stars care nothing for sacred liturgies
Nor do the fireflies flitting among the trees
And ‘round the darkening lawn as evening falls…

Dance Me Around

March 7, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

As a woman, traditionally it is my role in partner dancing to follow my dance partner. Let me tell you that this has not always been easy for me, and still isn’t.