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My Legs: I Move & Therefore I Am! As a child filled with energy, my legs carried me to the baseball field where I usually played center field because of my speed. As a boy I loved to run and my legs would oblige me, helping me b…
Gratitude for Nuts O Great Nourisher, we give thanks for nuts from trees. Study: Eating nuts can reduce your risk of dying from cancer, heart disease, and several other ailments, according to Harvard research publi…
Holy Moments Catholic Wisdom He is truly great who is great in charity. — Thomas A. Kempis in The Imitation of Christ
A Prayer for the Beached Dolphins February 2012. We read in the news about a tragedy. From New England to Peru, an unprecedented number of dolphins are beaching themselves: 124 have died on Cape Cod and 200 in Chiclayo, Peru. Expert…
A Prayer for When the Unthinkable Happens On July 20, 2012, a few minutes into the midnight screening of the Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, a gunman entered the theater, set off tear gas grenades, and then shot into…
A Prayer for the Flood Victims in Australia January, 2011. Australia is experiencing the worst flooding in decades, affecting an area of the state of Queensland the size of Germany and France. Towns have been turned into islands amidst muddy …
Praise for My Kidneys By far, the most pain I have ever experienced was when I had kidney stones. They are accumulations of mineral salts varying in size from microscopic to the size of a fingertip that form in the kidne…
My Shoulders: Issues in the Tissues? When I was a teenager I remember being told by my parents and other adults to stand up straight. But my shoulders were already rounded and my chest caved in as if I were hiding. Jonathan Fields,…
My Eyes Behold the Wonders I spent most of my childhood in my bedroom comfortably hidden away from the tensions and anxieties of the 1950s. I loved to read and my eyes became very familiar with the rhythms of long hours of my…
A Prayer for Trees in Peril Creator God, we are worried about the trees in our home state of California and elsewhere in the world. Article: According to the Los Angeles Times, the number of dead trees in California's fores…