It is nearly midnight. The logs pop as I take my poker and stir up the coals once more before the flames die out altogether. Once enough embers are glowing, I hastily add another log to the fire. If the fire dies out, the evening is over. The sparks cascade heavenward and light up the [...]

When feeling nostalgic about high school, there are few people I would want to come across on a spiritual plane. John is one of them.
John was a student at Camelot, St Francis’ home for troubled youth. The youth of Camelot were all boys, and many of them had been assigned there for various criminal [...]

The Carnival
As I drive home from work at night, I hit an overpass once I have gone from 59 to the Beltway that allows the night sky to become animated with uncommon color. There are flashing bulbs of every color and design matched only by fireworks. I love the lights of the carnival in the [...]

Cultivating grace. What does this mean. Is it different for each person? Does it have qualifiers?
I googled it and came up with little I was not already thinking. I find it as a sort of catch all for all those moments when I have a sense of understanding. when I get it. Whatever ‘it’ is.
I [...]