by JAC | Feb 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Hope . . . is a gift. Like life, it is a gift from God, total, unexpected, incomprehensible, undeserved. It springs out of nothingness, completely free. But to meet it, we have to descend into nothingness. And there we meet hope most perfectly, when we are...
by JAC | Feb 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Now we’re e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter,...
by JAC | Jan 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I have found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay… simple acts of kindness and love.” Gandalf, Lord of...
by JAC | Dec 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
“I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel.” -Charlie Brown I enter the season each year with great hopes of quieting my spirit and reading daily Advent devotions, but by...
by JAC | Dec 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Miracles… seem to me to rest not so much upon… healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.”― Willa Cather, Death...
by JAC | Dec 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
“But when you become silent like the lily and the bird, then you are at the beginning, which is first to seek God’s Kingdom” S. Kierkegaard At the beginning of Advent, I picked up a very old copy of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales given...
