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Speaking to the Soul: you give them something to eat

June 2, 2016 No Comments

In any case FOCO is a blessing and so is any other endeavor that generously welcomes the lost and the needy, not only filling empty stomachs but inviting alienated hearts into a communion that includes everybody. Maybe, invited or not, God is present. Who am I to say?

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Speaking to the Soul: Defending yourself

May 31, 2016 6 Comments

The debate over guns in our society needs to be just that—a debate, with the willingness to listen. Too often, tragedies happen at the end of a gun barrel, and how many of those times would the people involved give anything to take back what had happened?

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Speaking to the Soul: Word of Wisdom

May 28, 2016 1 Comment

Perhaps we need to look for little bits of wisdom that are like shiny shells in the sand. They are easily overlooked and they require a modicum of effort to bend over and pick up, but there is a small slice of the world that can be held in the hand and observed. It can be a tiny piece that can be the lynch pin for solving the whole puzzle before us.

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Speaking to the Soul: Weeds and all

May 26, 2016 9 Comments

After her death we learned that for the entire time she was working with the lowliest of sufferers she felt an absence of God’s presence in her life that left her in agonizing desolation.

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