What is Your New Year's Resolution?    Good Morning Friends,    Today as this year ends and another begins we look back and discover that we have the assurance from the God, who has brought us this far, to take us on a new adventure in 2016. We celebrate endings and beginnings on a grand scale … Continue reading What is Your New Year’s Resolution? →

Why Do Good Things Happen to Bad People?  Good Morning Friends,  Any study of Job will end up asking the question why bad things happen to good people but by extension there is another question to be asked that relates to the latest instalment of Star Wars and may enlighten us as to why we … Continue reading Why Do Good Things Happen to Bad People? →

 Whose Opinion Matters Most?  Good Morning Friends,  Christmas is a time for giving and sharing and there are lessons for daily living to be learned in the experience. It is not about us experiencing a short lived feeling good about ourselves. For self-approval is not all that hard to come by. But approval by God … Continue reading Whose Opinion Matters Most? →

Are You Ready for Something New?  Good Morning Friends,  Today's lectionary scripture guides us to remember our preparation for the coming of Christ as part of the unfolding of creation. It is about the holiness of Christ's first coming and the newness associated with the second coming of Jesus. It is about a Heaven that … Continue reading Are You Ready for Something New? →

Would We Move Right Along or Would We Look for Jesus?  Good Morning Friends,  Misplacing things as we get older is a problem. Keys, glasses, identity items are lost every day by people. It can happen in our spiritual journey too if we suppose we must find God is some far off experience. Kermit the Frog … Continue reading Would We Move Right Along or Would We Look for Jesus? →

What Will You Do After Christmas?  Good Morning Friends,  Today is St. Stephen's Day... commonly known as Boxing Day. It is a day mentioned in the familiar Christmas carol, Good King Wenceslas and marks the first day in the Twelve Days of Christmas that ends on the Feast of the Epiphany. Its origins are found … Continue reading What Will You Do After Christmas? →

Are You Ready for Christmas Day?  Good Morning Friends,  The preparation is over. For the last weeks we have been preparing for Christmas like we prepare for a hurricane. We spent time fixing up the outside of our house. We dragged out boxes from the attic. We did last minute shopping in crowded stores. We watched special … Continue reading Are You Ready for Christmas Day? →

Will You Find Jesus This Christmas?  Good Morning Friends,  Christmas Eve holds many memories for me: Being with family admiring Christmas decorations... putting out hundreds of luminaries... attending candlelight services and helping to make great music...doing dramatic readings...attending midnight masses and hearing the reading of Luke 2. But I also have had the experience of praying for … Continue reading Will You Find Jesus This Christmas? →

Do You Desire God to Complete what is Unfinished?  Good Morning Friends,  Today's devotional is about God's desire to complete in us a work which He has started. The beauty is that what God fixes is better than the original. The ongoing work is, of course, God bringing us love in and through relationships for a … Continue reading Do You Desire God to Complete what is Unfinished? →

Are You Ready to Come Out of Darkness?  Good Morning Friends,  My ministry…my life…my suffering has had a central theme of striving to bring dignity to nameless people lost in the statistics. These are the poor, the least, the lost, the last, the anonymous, often despised groups of people marginalized as in-significant before society but … Continue reading Are You Ready to Come Out of Darkness? →