Searching for a Balance

"There is as much intrigue in this State House as in the Vatican, but as little secrecy as in a boarding school."               ...

"Almighty ever-living God, constantly accomplish the Paschal Mystery within us, that those you were pleased to make new in Holy Ba...

I am always grateful for these peaceful cat moments. Everyone was very low key today, including me.

Now the green blade rises from the buried grain, Wheat that in the dark earth many years has lain; Love lives again, that with the ...

"...we are not reading for the mere acquisition of information but for the sake of relationships with knowledge, with words, with heroe...

This is a picture of the blueberry pie I made for Easter dessert (we also had chocolates, and wonderful ice cream from a lovely place in ...

Our girl has a birthday today.  And she's quite well, thanks for asking. The other day at work I had a sudden desire to read...

It is you, O Lord, who are my hope, my trust, O Lord, since my youth. On you I have leaned from my birth, from my mother's womb y...

I do believe that it's finally. Spring-ing.

I had two leeks in the fridge, and lots of potatoes, so the other day I we had potato leek soup with BLTs. Today I planned to make minest...

this morning June came by on Saturday; the temperatures were in the seventies, and how welcome that was! But she didn't stay, and A...

March went out like the veriest lamb of lambs. I had taken Holy Week off with an intention of doing spring cleaning. I've never done it ...

"The tomb of Jesus was the tomb of a world that had ended... In this new world, the humanity of Jesus would no longer be bound by time ...

"There is a scene in the Gospel that anticipates the silence of Holy Saturday in a stimulating way and thus also appears as a portrait ...

Psalm 22 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? You are far from my plea and the cry of my distress. O my God, I call by day and...

At the supermarket today I ran into a man from church. He said, "I am doing the very best I can. Are you doing the very best you can?...

I told myself at the beginning of Lent that I should work on the mending pile, and I have been! But it increases when I'm not loo...

"... the happiness of the soul consists in the exercise of the affections; ... As hunger and thirst, as taste, sound, and smell, are th...

"Worship is not merely a therapeutic practice. In fact, worship has a therapeutic effect only on the soul of a person who takes serious...

After a good three months at home, the library kitty suddenly appeared this week. He was extremely glad to see us and made himself a...

"Only Jesus is holy, the only one pleasing to his Father. Only by allowing him to communicate his holiness to us can we be pleasing to ...

On sunny days after a fresh snowfall, there comes a time in the afternoon when the sun shines so beautifully on everything. Previously I...

or maybe Madame Pompadour.  ;-)

Last Wednesday we had a big snowfall, ten inches. Even though I am wanting spring to come, a snowfall is far prettier than mud. And it...

You would think that the two biggest creatures in the house could handle the smallest person in the house, wouldn't you? It was t...

I finished my ankle warmers the other day by just joining the edges to make a tube. I thought they'd be too narrow, so I planned to knit...

During Lent, I'm always so glad if I can arrange the meals so I don't have to be overly occupied with food. This year it's cas...

I like my flannel nightgowns in winter. I have two, but one is wearing thin. The really quality ones, like L.L. Bean's, go for sixty...

"It is all right there in front of our eyes. We do not need to see new things. We need to see the same old things with new eyes. We do ...

We say about March, that if it comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb, or it's the other way around. We had a nor'easter ...

Many are the needs of those around us; few are our resources;  great is the generosity of God, and so we pray: For those who go to be...