Dear friends in Spirit. I thought I would share with you a letter I sent to a very good, very spiritual man, whom I greatly admire. Dear John, I hope you are well. I attended the retreat you conducted last week. I had to leave early because of health issue which is now being resolved, […]

Dear Friend: I’m inspired this morning by Fr Unni’s homily. Fr Unni is pastor of St Cecilia’s RC Church in Boston. This is a very progressive, inclusive church. Each week they live stream Sunday Mass. I highly recommend it. This morning the Gospel reading was about Jesus calling his companions from their work as fishermen […]

Greetings fellow travelers of the Spirit. Recently I ran across a quote from James Finley:“Our deepest freedom rests not in our freedom to do what we want to do but rather in our freedom to become who God wills us to be“James Finley I know Jim and admire him greatly. This quote gave me pause, […]

Greetings Friends: I’ve been thinking lately about this whole issue of “taking credit” for the good works we do, big and small. For some of us, it’s very difficult to accept praise or even recognition when we do something good. I hear this all the time in Spiritual Companionship: “It’s not me it’s God working […]