The Cross is Always our Friend: A Poem

In the blink of an eye You have plucked me out of "Available" and "unavailable," where Unflagging demands extracted the Marrow of the remains of Scheduled devotional times, and The corporeal aches either Festered or fed The public persona already Continue Reading

Advent Quotes for Reflection on the Nativity of Jesus Christ

I always seek to place a "reflections" in the bulletin. I believe that for most people the Church, and in particular the liturgy of the Church, is the primary way that the sacred words and the familiar words and the poetry and literature of Western Continue Reading

Family Devotions, 1 John 5:13 and The Cottar’s Saturday Night

This entry originally appeared on The Call with Mike Milton. Visit there for more thoughts, reflections and resources.     he following letter is one that I wrote to my family following last night’s devotions, in which we studied 1 John. Our Continue Reading

Nothing Can Save Us That is Possible

I am reading W.H. Auden's Collected Longer Poems while on vacation. Throught the oncoming heaviness of sleep last night, as I lay reading, seeking the soothing medicinal dust of my summer reading pile, I came across this, which did indeed soothe my mind, Continue Reading