I recently went up Red Mountain Road to drop off some jam for friends. Their driveway being an impassable pile of snow, I parked below and followed a trail up the side of the mountain through a tract … [Read more...]
After Reading the Magnificat: Luke 1:46-55
by Anne Voegtlen Here, within me, around me is a new life I did not seek. Within me, around me, the old certainties have collapsed in the space of … [Read more...]
Whatever you call it…
Nobody asks me to pray for them anymore. Most of what I hear these days is some variation on the phrase, “Please send good energy.” Is this just my friends and family or is this a universal shift? I … [Read more...]
Contemplative Certitude
About twenty years ago, I had a hissy fit at God. The trigger for this event was the death of a friend’s son; in my eyes, a particularly cruel and senseless death. I was like a feral cat, crazed in my … [Read more...]