Searching for a Balance

I have raved about this cheesecake recipe before, and I'm perfectly willing to do it again. But I almost went astray to try a different...

This is my song, O God of all the nations, A song of peace for lands afar and mine; This is my home, the country where my heart is; ...

Today could have been August - it was ninety, and humid. I was smart enough to get up at the crack of dawn and got a lot done before it beca...

For God, the living God, I thirst. Like dew upon the fleece come down, Like rain upon the desert sand, Like light into a darkened roo...

I got another bedskirt on ebay. It's certainly easier if you can find a used one - easier than making it, I mean. But I still had to ...

We took a trip the other day to the home of my favorite president. The gift shop was excellent, but I chose just one thing, a (recycled) ...

It was breezy today, and petals from our neighbors' crabapple tree have been flying by in blizzards, so the glory of the flowering trees...

Henry is so uncatlike sometimes - the other day I picked him up, holding him firmly about chest height. He is a cat, right? No, he can'...

Be joyful, Mary, heav'nly queen, alleluia: Your Son who died was living seen, Alleluia, rejoice, rejoice, O Mary. The Son you b...

I say this every year, I think. But it's working so hard on blooming. Between this and the fireflies of summer, it's our a...

Oh, May 1st and it was around seventy today - tomorrow, eighty five! The warmth just changes everything; after work I decided to wash my win...

"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...