Congratulations to President Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. This puts him in heady company and I hope that he can live up to the billing. More important than Barack Obama is the fact that Americans went to the polls last November and elected a leader who has put our country back on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Peace’
Mountain Road
Posted in Mt. Irenaeus, mindfulness, mystic, nature, prayer, tagged contemplative, doubt, faith, Franciscan, Mt. Irenaeus, Peace, Trinity Sunday on June 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Today was Trinity Sunday and I really needed to hear Fr. Lou McCormick, OFM homily which included the importance of doubt in our lives. So much time is spent defining what we are and what we believe that almost no one ever gives voice to doubt although you can hear it too if only you [...]
Deep peace
Posted in Peace, gratitude, prayer, tagged contemplative, gratitude, Peace on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow is my birthday and I’m very happy to be celebrating another year of life. This weekend I was able to join my mother, my wife and two children for a basketball game and dinner. It was great to be together again. I suppose the one cause to which I’ve devoted much of my life [...]
Thanksgiving
Posted in Peace, Spiritual, gratitude, military, mindfulness, tagged gratitude, Navy, Peace, Thanksgiving, veteran on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a day and a season of thanksgiving and this year I’m most thankful for all that has happened. This has been a watershed year of memories and a chance to reconnect with people and memories from the past. Just yesterday I received a note from a surgeon who was once my boss at [...]
Open my eyes
Posted in Peace, gratitude, mindfulness, prayer, tagged contemplative, Peace on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
O Lord, open my eyes that I may see the needs of others; open my ears that I may hear their cries; open my heart so that they need not be without succor; let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor [...]
Found him not
Posted in Peace, mystic, tagged contemplative, God, Islam, Muslim, mystic, Peace on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All this talk about Islam and Muslims has awakened a hunger within me to know more. One of my favorites is a Sufi mystic, Rumi. Rumi lived in the 13th century and though they were thousand of miles apart he was a contemporary of St. Francis of Assisi.
I searched for God among the Christians and [...]
Paradox of peace
Posted in Christian, Peace, Spiritual, Thomas Merton, Trappist, mindfulness, monastic, mystic, tagged contemplative, Merton Institute, Peace, Thomas Merton, Trappist on August 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I got this quote in today’s mail from the Merton Institute and it really resonated for me. The second sentence here is right on target.
Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were [...]
