"So later, walking into the countryside where I go to commune with horses, I focus on just being one small moving part of the book that is ever unfolding, a letter in the great word instead of the word itself. The horse tells me I am not the word when she stares at me so mysteriously. "If you were, you would know what I am saying to you.""...
"When Laval died in 1708, one of his contemporaries described him as “a shepherd filled with the spirit of the apostles."...
"The story of Jesus’ passion is not an attempt to answer the question ‘Why do people have to suffer?’ It does, however, proclaim a fundamental truth. Jesus did not come to prevent human suffering, but rather to consume it with his presence."...
"You remain at home, in a village, not knowing where to go and whom to contact. It is like those medieval sculptured reliefs in our Gothic cathedrals depicting the dance of death."...
"As the Resurrected Jesus became more accessible to the world So would we be more available and sensitive to others"...
"Jesus speaks of the need for us to stay rooted in him. “Cut off from me you can do nothing.” Jesus is telling us that the very core of our existence is to be connected with him."...
Thoughts about the late Australian autumn. "Thankfully, as I am growing older, I am learning, finally, that the seasons of our lives, so similar to those of nature, do not always follow in the same order. "...
"There seems to be a luscious harmony in this season that is preparing us for the oncoming celebration of the great feast of Pentecost."...
"Maybe God is where the time is taken to understand that a photo, a glimpse of an experience, will not do."...
"The bison, the elks, the wolves, and even Simon the fox looked particularly shaggy, all seeming a little uncomfortable wearing the remains of winter fur in the 25 C heat."...
