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Maureen McCann Waldron

A Startling Experiment

by Maureen McCann Waldron

Could you live your everyday life in just six pieces of clothing?  It is the question behind a website called “Six Items or Less.” In the trans-Atlantic experiment, people around the world volunteered to choose six items of clothing and wear only those six things for a month, at work and at home.  That’s it.  [...]

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Biker Dad

by Maureen McCann Waldron

I was driving to the grocery store the other day when the public radio network offered a story about motorcycle gangs, their initiation rituals, crimes and other things that make my safety-conscious self recoil.  I listened with one ear as I parked my car. As I walked into the lobby of the grocery store, I [...]

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Getting Unplugged

by Maureen McCann Waldron

I was struck by the post here last week “Solitude in a World of iPad Apps” about an article by Fr. Jim Martin, SJ.  On the day it was posted here, I was ending an 8 day silent retreat at the Jesuit Retreat House in Colorado.  When I first arrived on retreat, I followed my [...]

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Visits with My Mother

by Maureen McCann Waldron

In the US on Sunday, we will celebrate Mother’s Day. I have been thinking of my mother a lot lately, maybe because this is only my second Mother’s Day without her.  Her long battle with Alzheimer’s had a terrible beauty to it, her fight for reality and her letting go and trusting.  Sometimes I wish [...]

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A Mother’s Day Prayer

by Maureen McCann Waldron

Our Creighton Online Ministries website has many prayers by and for mothers. Click here.  Here is a Mother’s Day prayer: I [we] thank you, Creator of us all, for my [our] mother[s]. I thank you that she gave me life and nurtured me all those years. She gave me my faith, helping me to know [...]

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Pay Attention!

by Maureen McCann Waldron

When I was in grade school, I was a daydreamer.  I could get lost in the view out of the classroom window, in the display on the bulletin board at the side of the room, or in the stories at the back of my reader – although I was never reading the ones we happened [...]

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Waiting in the Dark

by Maureen McCann Waldron

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 [...]

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Jesus with Us

by Maureen McCann Waldron

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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See Who Has Created These Things

by Maureen McCann Waldron

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 scheduled and now here, [...]

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Married Every Day

by Maureen McCann Waldron

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 of us who have [...]

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