Minute Meditations

Our Franciscan tradition speaks to the idea of unity through community.

The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins crystallized so beautifully the effect that John Duns Scotus’ teaching has on mystical minds: Yet ah! this air I gather and releaseHe lived on;These weeds and waters, these walls are whatHe hauntedWho of all ...

One of my favorite authors is the great Hoosier science fiction writer, Kurt Vonnegut. A theme he often plays with in many of his novels is the notion that human beings are becoming more machine-like in their dependence on technology ...

“And to this poverty, my beloved brothers, you must cling with all your heart, and wish never to have anything else under heaven.” 

The joy and fulfillment came in the creating, in the daring to create, day after day after day.

I needed to remember who I was in the midst of this loss of control and rejection. I was the beloved.