Advent begins this coming Sunday, November 29. If you have followed my blog for more than a year, you know that each year I publish my personal meditations from Advent of the previous year. I publish a paperback book, with all the profits going to Love for the Least, a movement that shares the compassion … Read more
The last few months have been chaotic. I know everyone’s life has been disrupted by the pandemic and the civil unrest. Add to that my move from my home of fifty-three years to a senior living community in lockdown, and I have been adjusting to a whole new way of life. I love my new … Read more
ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, in whose hands are the living and the dead; We give thee thanks for all those thy servants who have laid down their lives in the service of our country. Grant to them thy mercy and the light of thy presence, that the good work which thou hast begun in … Read more
I’ve been thinking about moving into a senior independent living apartment for a good while now. Every time a problem occurred with the house—such as having to replace the sewer lines under the house, not once but twice because the first contractor botched the job—I wished I didn’t have the responsibility of the upkeep of … Read more
I saw this newspaper article: “A look back at Michael Yuchnitz, ‘San Antonio’s very own Joe Exotic.’” It reminded me of my experience with this character as a client of my interior landscape company. We installed plants in two atriums and provided maintenance services for a few years. All of my employees hated to go … Read more
Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was … Read more
When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud and laid … Read more
And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him. As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called … Read more
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my … Read more
Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your … Read more