Searching for a Balance

 on top of the mulch. Sweet little fellow.

Loving Father, you are our help. Your kindness is a greater good than life. May we bless you in our daily lives,    always calling upon your...

 I've been reading "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion". I kept running into glowing praises of the "journals" ...

 I was continuing on with Watership Down, when it got so tense I couldn't leave it; so I made more progress than I expected to. I've...

 We got in the car this morning, heading down the road to go to Mass, and a little sparrow landed on the outside of the passenger side, wher...

 I've been wondering at what level cats can communicate information to one another.  After Benny was coming around for a few weeks, Leon...

 May God the Father bless us, May God the Son heal us, May the Holy Spirit enlighten us and give us eyes to see with, ears to hear with, and...

 "Martha and I might have settled over a book, or taken up our embroidery, or written letters ourselves to a numerous correspondence - ...

 "Fasting is the soul of prayer, mercy is the lifeblood of fasting. So if you pray, fast; if you fast, show mercy; if you want your pet...

 "..I also know even better now that it's always amidst the siege that God's kindness arrives. We live in a world at war and wi...

 Here's a project I began a few years ago, but when something has a place in this house, it can easily be forgotten. But then I remember...

 "Our peace doesn't come from the world, from exterior circumstances... It is the fruit of prayer...The only time we have good disc...

 We've had such beautiful weather this week - so welcome, after the Previous Awful. And the nights are in the fifties lately! Very unusu...

 "O God, in your love, you have sown the Good News of the Gospel in the wilderness of the world and brought it to flower and fruit thro...

 It was ninety-eight degrees on Tuesday; yesterday was supposed to be slightly cooler, with possible storms in the evening. I went to work a...

 I've been reading an article in Plough , an interview with Ken Burns, the filmmaker and historian.  "This word 'liberty' h...

 She fits in it perfectly. She hides underneath it, so no one can see her! except her little face She chews on the edges, bangs it around, r...

 The pie came out well, I decorated the table with lots of red, white and blue, I made strawberry coconut milk ice cream and we stayed in wi...

 I was busily peeling and cutting apples when I noticed that a couple of them had a Liberty Bell-shaped sticker. That's it! It's in ...

 The heat's intense and the air conditioner is humming, which makes me feel in another world. I'm sure the cats also feel that way, ...

  Christ is alive! No longer bound To distant years in Palestine, But saving, healing, here and now, And touching every place and time. In e...

 Less than an hour before dark, and I see the sun gilding the trees in the back yard. After an overcast and rain on-and-off day. Tomorrow wi...

 "As he bumped the car up the drive he deplored with sudden impatience the inescapable and impossible demands that his children make up...

 "Patience...is really a matter of faith in the providence of God. If we can accept in our heart that this unpleasant moment is a vehic...

I sat at my sewing table a few minutes ago and there before me was a beautiful sunset, all pink and gold. I have no idea how to photograph s...

trying to find coolness in the grass  "Nature is no mere gathering of atoms but rather the outward form of God's imagination."...

 "What grieves us most, O Lord, is playing without joy your beautiful music, you who move us from day to day. We grieve at being always...

 "It was because Damerosehay did not change that in this chaotic, tumbling, terrifying world it was a place of such comfort."     ...

 "It was the glorified beauty of the familiar and habitable earth that she saw now, the trees and flowers and creatures that made up th...

  Spirit of the Father and the Son, ripen your fruits in our hearts: Grant us patience and gentleness, charity, joy, and peace. - from Magni...

 "What is the peace of the world? Perhaps we would call it security or safety; the sense that physical walls and human strength, burgeo...