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As I think about the homelessness, I wrongly get the image of a smelly, grimy drunk bum on a park bench. I am not alone in getting this initial image in my mind. We all fall prey to implicit bias in many realms. Are there some that fit this stereotype? Yes, and I have seen […]
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This edition of Convergent Streams is dedicated to raising awareness to the plight of our homeless friends and family. It is a plight that has been on my mind more and more since my wife’s hospitalization in January. You see, my wife is the sole breadwinner in our home. We decided years ago that because […]
Continue ReadingOn this subject there are many materials of all kinds. My goal is not to talk about the same, but to bring this to a transcendent and practical sense from our closest realities. Sometimes we do not realize that Lent is a state that is not conditioned by a certain time, rather, in the spiritual […]
Continue ReadingSobre este tema hay muchos materiales de todo tipo. Mi objetivo no es hablar de lo mismo, sino llevar esto a un sentido trascendente y practico desde nuestras realidades mas cercanas. A veces no caemos en la cuenta que la cuaresma es un estado que no esta condicionado por un tiempo determinado, antes bien, en […]
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To the person who came to my offices last week, and then again appeared at the door yesterday and who was obviously irritated by my staff, and who decided to vocalize their frustration with my being out of the office by stating “He’s never here!“ I offer you my humblest apologies! Perhaps, since I am […]
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And then there was St Kevin and the blackbird. The saint is kneeling, arms stretched out, inside His cell, but the cell is narrow, so One turned-up palm is out the window, stiff As a crossbeam, when a blackbird lands And lays in it and settles down to nest. -Seamus Heaney INTRODUCTION The commotion reported […]
Continue ReadingWithout doubt, my most favorite and funniest episode of Saturday Night Live was when comedian John Lovitz portrayed the Devil in a parody of “The People’s Court”. As the defendant in the case, Mephistopheles- one of the many names by which the Devil is known- is being sued by a hairdresser who sought to terminate […]
Continue ReadingI haven’t thought of a title for this reflection. And the reality is, when I think about the gravity of what the resurrection means, I am reminded of just exactly how small I am in this universe, and how great the mercy of God actually is. What I can tell you is that recently in […]
Continue ReadingIn my work as a hospice chaplain I have the honor of getting to know people at their most vulnerable times and share in their experiences as they often share a review of their life and talk about their experiences. I was recently talking with a patient who talked fondly about her deceased husband, and […]
Continue ReadingWe all struggle to understand the Mysteries of Faith. How they effect and affect our lives. The most difficult to understand is the mystery of the Resurrection. In my view this is the most important one. Without the Resurrection we would not be called Christians. We would not be the Body of Christ. This essay […]
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