It was interesting to me, the other day, my youngest daughter, 9-year-old Susie and I, happened to be eating supper at the table together – Patty and Sarah were away for an appointment – and I suddenly had this moment of awareness, in the middle of mouthfuls of spaghetti, that everything around us was quiet, peacefully quiet, that we...

There once was an ad campaign by a major insurance company that said, “Sometimes life comes at you fast.”

No doubt. Life comes at us fast. In our urban, fast-paced, hyper-technological world, that is certainly the case.

But life also feels as though it rushes at us, when there’s stress at work, demands at home, a grim medical...

She stood lost in her own world.  It was made up of sunshine and a rose bush.  She stood before the bush contemplating the beauty of it.  She looked at the deep red petals, overlapping each other. Bending forward, she placed her nose closely to the rose and inhaled.  She stood straight again and kept looking at the bush with...

It’s been over 30 years since Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated while presiding over the Eucharist during worship in El Salvador.  Originally picked for the position because he was a cautious, thoughtful man, some said because he was conservative. He took up the cause of human rights in his own country as he witnessed the death...