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  • ‘A perfect dose of grace’ for all seasons

     This small but powerful book of stories is the perfect read for you when you want to reward yourself with some well-deserved quiet time! Rabbi Irwin Kula, author of “Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life” wrote, “If you want to find God, know love, and truly understand these are the same, read this beautiful book. But be prepared…

  • When miracles become ordinary

    As a Catholic, I have a confession to make. I sometimes watch televangelists. While there are many things that make me uncomfortable about this style of evangelizing, I have always felt it would be arrogant, and foolish, of me to suggest that God limits the wisdom of the Holy Spirit to only those of one…

  • Learning from God and Jimmy Buffett

    Getting a kite up in the air can be a real challenge, especially when you stand on the tail. This was today’s lesson by the bay, as I watched a young father try with persistence to get his kite, stamped with a spaceship, to lift-off. After numerous adjustments to his backward gait, the line length,…

  • Tempering the siren call of the ice cream truck

    On the shore at the bay there is a jungle gym area where my daily visits usually include a lesson learned in observing children at play. Yesterday’s lesson was fit for America’s Funniest Home Videos. A group of seven young children between the ages of two and eight were having a great time climbing the plastic…

  • LIving with the paradox of a sunset

    It seems an unlikely marriage, beauty and despair, but creations of the human spirit in crisis are among the most meaningful and beautiful in existence. Art, music, literature, even prayer, flowing from a heart of pain, resonate with creatures who must face their mortality with every passing moment. What are we to do with this…

  • So, what’s your spinach?

    Last week it was Pinocchio, today it’s Popeye. He came to mind when I was cooking up some spinach, of course. When I was young, I didn’t care much for this gnarly sailor. Snagglepuss was more my type. But as I got older, I had a new appreciation for Popeye’s wit and wisdom. Well before the proliferation…

  • Taken down by a nose!

    God forbid this kind of thing should ever happen to Pinnochio!   It started a few days ago, uncontrollable bloody noses, two trips to the ER, and now a face that looks like snorkel gear has been surgically implanted. The clinical name for my new attachment is an air-inflated epistaxis device, which is another name for…

  • Growth requires new ways of thinking and being

    For a number of years, I worked with a boss who encouraged us often to think outside the box, a phrase that has, today, become so commonplace as to be ordinary. Still, whenever I hear the phrase I think of him and his desire for us to engage in extraordinary thinking. While cleaning recently, I…

  • Learning a lesson from the black swan

    As I pulled my car into the parking lot of the beach along the bay, I noticed a single white swan, its    silhouette bright against the misty grayness of water, sky and land.  She had the bay to herself, no ducks, no geese, not even a seagull entered the scene. Even in the rolling waters,…

  • Choosing is a matter of blessing or curse

    It’s not often that I get a chance to be immersed in an abundance of creative expressions of faith   meant to transform hearts and lives, but that’s exactly what will happen tomorrow at the Diocese of Trenton’s Re:Image Film Festival at the Algonquin Arts Theatre in Manasquan. Last year’s festival was a real testimony to…