It was a divine disruption I didn’t have time for.  And it changed my life, forever.

This unexpected encounter began over a...

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It was approaching dusk on a November afternoon, and I was splitting the last of the logs we cut for firewood, when suddenly the fading light transformed the sky into a suspended ocean of luminous peach and rose, the glow from which...

I was amazed.

God had done so much.

Yet what amazed me even more was this: God had done so much that I...

It was nearly a nondescript December Wednesday.  I was pushing hard to finish projects on my desk, and Cherie was likely pulling dinner together and trying to focus the kids on their homework.

Unplugged from the matrix. Four days in a fellowship of...

Pause with me for a moment.

Do this mental exercise: what comes to mind when you think of a turkey?

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Most of the things that happen to me along the way, I experience as interruptions.

I set my calendar and my day with the best of intentions. Inevitably, all...

Recently, I was picking up the neighborhood boys to drive them to school along with our kids as is part of our Thursday morning liturgy.  But on this particular day, things were a bit different...