In the compelling 2016 fantasy drama film, A MONSTER CALLS, directed by J.A. Bayona, a child dealing with the impending loss of his terminally ill mother is visited by a monster who tells him a series of stories about truth in an effort to empower the child to face truth in the child’s own life. …

Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping.
And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb

Proximity is so curious and so important.  Don’t we indeed know this these days?  Biological proximity in its most intimate form is the basis for regeneration of life – new life! …

The feeling of abandonment is real and terrible.  Some of us have had more experience of it than others. It is a harsh reality of life, whether it is circumstantial or imposed upon us by others.  It is a form of death. …

On the first day of the week,
Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning,
while it was still dark,
and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
 (JN 20: 1-9)

It is paradoxical in a way that here in Louisiana, as the COVID19 pandemic rages in the population, Spring is spectacularly making its presence known in blooms and scents. …

Here we are! In a world of liminal space – that in-between-ness where time seems to stand still.  This is the threshold experience, transition or perhaps transformation, the chrysalis time between what was and what is next.  It has a timeless quality, an eternal-feeling of waiting, crouching possibility, which can result in both anxiety and hopeful expectation – fear and joy. …