Soul Lace

Many of us are familiar with the opening line pronounced by the presiding minister at a wedding, “Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here together…” The celebration of the union of two is witnessed by and in the Sacrament of Marriage set purposefully within the deep context of community. …

We live in a world permeated with images and opinions that we are sometimes convinced to be the truth.  All you have to do is turn on the television and see an advertisement, or even a “news” report, to see how convincingly many times an opinion or a familiar image is touted as the truth.…

We live in a world where terrible tragedies are seeming to grow in number by the day.  These “tragedies” include many of the same results – extreme suffering (physical, emotional and psychological), environments are damaged or destroyed, and Life is lost. …

Memory is a powerful phenomenon.  It can solicit strong emotions both joyful and painful.  When something is in the past, it becomes “fixed.”  Sometimes we “identify” with a memory to such a great extent that it takes on a life of its own so that it overruns us, resulting in the inability to truly live in the present at all. …

When you think of people whom you consider to have “wisdom,” what are the names that come to mind for you?  I think of people like the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, Thich Nhat Hahn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Dorothy Day, Dr.…