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My sister and her husband, who live in Oregon, had their inaugural bike ride of the season yesterday. She wrote that the sun was shining, daffodils are up and blooming, crocus fields are thriving and it was 65 degrees as they rounded the road on their way home.
It is in contrast to the unusually harsh [...]
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In the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius encourages us to pray with our imaginations. He suggests we enter into the nativity scene in our mind’s eye, seeing the rough timbers of the stalls, smelling the animals and the hay; listening to the soft murmurs of conversation between Mary and Joseph in the stable. He knew that [...]
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Last Wednesday, we had a blizzard in Omaha and Creighton University was closed. Nine inches of snow was whipped by a ferocious wind onto roofs and in doorways. Suddenly, in the midst of my busy week, I had a day of enforced nothingness. I always dream of a day with nothing [...]
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I went to a funeral Monday morning; the mother of a friend. She was about 95 and left behind a grieving husband who will turn 99 next month. They had been married for 73 years. I sat in church and pondered that kind of love and commitment. Seventy-three years? For those [...]
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