Love helps the Five reflections

September 3, 2012

source In a time in which I’m in need of help… I’m in just the perfect position to help. So I’m helping someone – five someone’s. There is the one who has had maybe the most arduous time of it. She’s as tough as tempered steel…but has a tender heart and is kind. She’s the […]

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Love and the five reflections

September 1, 2012

source There are five of them. In this time of my life… when I am in need of so much help… into my lap have been plopped five people… for whom I’m in the perfect position to help. Each in different ways…and with a different set of brokenness. And in this year I’ve named “See” […]

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Love, though suffering, does not ignore the agony of others

August 29, 2012

source It’s funny, that at this time, when I find myself in need of more help than ever before. I have this strange serendipity (maybe God?) which has placed in my life five people, for whom I am in the perfect position to help. Even though my life is in shambles… and more so because […]

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Love was and is and is to come – and it fixes broken.

August 24, 2012

source Why does Our Lord invite us to pray for his Kingdom to come? He doesn’t need our help or prayers. Maybe it might be as simple as this. He likes it when we team up with him. Then there’s the mystical “now and not yet” nature of the Kingdom of God. It arrived and […]

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Love feels the broken, without breaking

August 22, 2012

source For the longest time I thought I was the only one. But I’ve learned in this little more than a year of blogging that everybody’s broken. I know the theological concept of everything being broken since the fall…. But to bring it home… I am broken. You’re broken. We all have cracks, wounds, baggage… […]

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Love resists the Siren Call, follows the light, says Thank You God.

August 20, 2012

source I know I can’t and shouldn’t keep meandering back to the “there and nowhere” of those seven days of no sleep. They fractured and fragmented my brain, laid waste to my life. But the siren call remains. The effect of those days still lunges and grasps at me… like mystical vines in a forest… […]

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Love keeps on helping someone even when it hurts

August 17, 2012

source Helping someone… when they’re a “help” porcupine… is a perilous proposition… for both the porcupine… and the helper. It can be so frustrating… and there’s no listening… and then comes worse. They make you feel guilty…for helping! I have to be honest – I didn’t see that one coming. But no being judgmental here. […]

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