Happy Thanksgiving! Good Morning Friends, The typical American family, if it ever lived anywhere was on Norman Rockwell's Thanksgiving canvas but if you look at that bird on that table it was skinny. It needed the help of all the fixings. The melancholy reality is that today for many, we have an overabundance that does not … Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving! →

A Deep Change Good Morning Friends, A French Philosopher, Descartes, once said, "I think, therefore I am." It is a famous phrase. But if you can say, "I work for God, therefore I am," then this opens up a whole new existence. You see, the means of life is only the purpose of life when … Continue reading A Deep Change →

Repentance Good Morning Friends, I have been asked to be John the Baptist in a children's chat in a couple of weeks and by then the hope of Christmas will be coming alive in the minds of the kids. The stores are already in Christmas mode. But here on the 60th anniversary of my birth … Continue reading Repentance →

A Job Too Few Want Good Morning Friends, In anticipation of Thanksgiving in the Park in Immokalee, I began to meditate more intensely on the needs of the farm workers. Things are changing. The advertisements in the Naples Daily News for farm laborers continue. The abuses in the fields have gone on for years but … Continue reading A Job Too Few Want →

The Abundance of Community Good Morning Friends, There is friction between the ways of measuring community and our need for strategic information that goes beyond traditional economic considerations. Gross Domestic Product, the unemployment rate, the consumer price index and measures of debt and health are the key indicators but our focus on them is limiting … Continue reading The Abundance of Community →

Christ in Culture Good Morning Friends, Today marks the 50th anniversary of British TV's most popular science fiction show. Even Google honors the milestone with an interactive doodle on its search box. Interestingly even though it may be written by non-believers, it still focuses on a compelling central character whose life has more than a … Continue reading Christ in Culture →

The Tower of Babel Syndrome Good Morning Friends, Yesterday a friend of mine got me to thinking about the challenges to becoming the Body of Christ together, which is by the way the mission of our Presbytery. For my Catholic friends the meaning of the Body of Christ is a reference to the church in … Continue reading The Tower of Babel Syndrome →

Christus Paradox Good Morning Friends, By definition, a true paradox is a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a truth. A paradox isn't a puzzle to be solved. A paradox isn't a contradiction that asserts its own opposite. A paradox is a mystery into which we can go deeper … Continue reading Christus Paradox →

The Plenty in Poverty Good Morning Friends, St. Francis is credited with describing poverty as sublime...a treasure so very precious and divine. On his death bed he requested a reading of Psalm 140 which reinforces the reality of the struggle and a dilemma we all face. Read it when you get a chance for it … Continue reading The Plenty in Poverty →

The Lost Home Good Morning Friends, On Monday we prayed with the Pastor of the Church that ministers to the Haitian families of those shot and killed in Immokalee on Sunday and prayed with a woman, Mary Delva, who had taken all her life savings of $43,000 and bought a home in Immokalee only to … Continue reading The Lost Home →