Lent 2023 - Murrelets

The street you lived on The mom and dad you had The first best friend you had Your first influential teacher Your siblings that came before and after…

We focus on the “Counselors of the Wicked.” Our newspapers, social media, television programs, both fiction and nonfiction, compete to terrorize. Yet…

Casting lots back in the day is equivalent to a modern day coin toss! Can you imagine a coin toss determining our political leaders? No objections! N…

In many ways all my life has been “decided at random”. And, yet, looking back lately has been quite a journey of meaning. I feel what Andrew Greeley …

“And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.” - Acts 1:26 NRSV Casting lots makes me think o…

Yesterday, I was reading a chapter about Great Egrets in a recent book called Slow Birding. It was a horrible story, really, about the third nestling…

Sr. Humilitas did a double take as she, arms-full of wet sheets to hang out to dry in the July sunshine, passed by a reflective surface and saw her h…

I remember that forest walk where the children first encountered death in the form of a field mouse on a path that I didn´t normally take. "Look…

Cast Lots (something, even something life changing, decided at random) February 24, 2023 I did not know this story of Matthias, or had forgotten it. …

Day 3 Friday, 2.22.23 Cast Lots - The Call Process, Here?     Maybe not so much. Maybe more like the last option.     A slip of a sentence casts d…