All Meditations
Beyond Bad Moods
posted on Feb 9, 2010I am running a nursing home for dogs. Old Benjamin, our chocolate lab, is now 15 years old. He has two tumors, one under each armpit. He has warts, arthritis and hip dysplasia. Each morning, at about 4 a.m., Ben shuffles across the floor of the ha...
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Love and Windex
posted on Feb 1, 2010In my years as a priest, I have learned that there is an enormous difference between love and attachment.Take Selena for example. Selena was married for 52 years when her husband was diagnosed with cancer. Lung cancer. He tried every kind of treat...
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Reserve Seats
posted on Jan 25, 2010This past week, someone asked me if we could sell reserved seats on Christmas Eve. ‘What if we auctioned off the first two rows at 11 o'clock?” he asked. “We could make a Lot of money for a good cause!” This gave me pause. It would make a ...
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A Panoramic View
posted on Jan 18, 2010The day before Dr. King was shot, he gave a speech in which he spoke about his life. He said that if he could choose when to be born and when to live, he would chose to be born at the very period in which God had placed him. He said that God had g...
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Listening to God
posted on Jan 4, 2010I live in the San Jose neighborhood. My kids go to San Jose Episcopal School. While dropping off their forgotten lunch tickets, I passed an icon of St. Joseph at the school and it all clicked. Saint Joseph! I live in his neighborhood. And he was s...
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The Word of God
posted on Dec 22, 2009Helen Keller once described what it was like to be both blind and deaf and to not have language. She described her existence as living in darkness. Before language, there was nothing for her. She felt totally alone and was unable to express her is...
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John the Baptist
posted on Dec 14, 2009I am struck by John the Baptist, struck by his honesty, his brutal truth-telling. I am so afraid of angering people, I find myself softening John's own message. It is difficult to convey his urgency in this world of comfort and convenience.In Luke...
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The Courage of John the Baptist
posted on Dec 7, 2009My son Jacob has decided who he is going to marry. He is nine years old.Her name is Sarah. They have their whole lives mapped out, Jacob and Sarah. They are going to attend University together, then open a lizard and reptile store. They are going ...
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The Beauty of Music
posted on Nov 30, 2009Last night I heard some of the most beautiful music of my life. I stood in the Cathedral surrounded by candlelight, and the choir stood around me, singing songs of longing for God. It was the annual service of Advent Procession. At the end of the ...
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The Unfundamentalist Church
posted on Nov 23, 2009The Episcopal Church is in the media a lot. We have a gay bishop. We ordain women. The highest ranking Bishop in the United States of America is a woman, and an oceanographer and she runs for exercise and wears dangly earrings.If you only read the...
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Saint Thomas
Saint Andrew
The Feast of All Saints
St. Michael and All Angels