I still have faith in You, despite the fact that I feel like You are absent in so many ways. I still have hope, because the object of my hope is not that things will get better, but that I can see life through moderately. And I still love You, even though I have so many, many reasons to hate You, and be resentful, spiteful, and bitter, and angry at ( Read more... )

Lord, I bless you doe the simple things in life. I woke up this morning. I was able to put my contact lenses into my eyes in under 2 minutes. I forgot I had a box of blueberry oatmeal in my pantry, so now I have breakfast. Small things like these make up what is good about life for me, and  if that is all that You have to offer who I am, then I am

I find my self making the same mistakes over and over, as if every time were the first time, only in disguise. I am comforted in knowing just this; that I am at least trying my best, so that these things will happen never again.

Please bless my new niece, O Lord of Tenderness and Love, that upon encountering the difficulties of this life, she may endure with great grace and serenity of heart.

May Your most sweet light rest upon the soul of Your servant, Fr. Rice, through whom You have poured Your great wisdom and love unto me and many others over the course of his many blessed years. May Peace like unto that which he brought us in Your Name be rewarded to him now, and may we meet him again at Your side on the Last Day ( Read more... )

Virgin of Chrisaginao, delight of angels and saints,
Beloved Awistrel, who beneath the dome of stars innumerable
sang sweetly among both the lowly and the mighty,
with equal kindness, an unbiased love.
Through you sleeping hearts are kindled,
Through you sorrow is tempered into wisdom;
The noble are guided to Truth by your gentle hand.

Oh, the irony...

My "Sur La Table Productivity Report" for last week:

Net sales: $3,150.83 (rank 4 out of 22)
Sales average: $52.64 per (rank 2 out of 22)
Units per transaction: 4.15 (rank 2 our of 22)
Sales amount per hour: $409.05 (1 place)

Raise in pay: $000.00

whatev....

Ok, so I feel like I have a obligation to prepare people for the following, since as you will see, it is of a different ilk than the material I usually use this tool for. But it's just one of those "special" moments in life.

I came back to my apartment from running, and I was about to take a shower. On the wall near the entry to my bathroom is a ( Read more... )

O Pillar of Light that sunders the Midnight, spilling forth abundantly like a stream of sweet water into the dark ocean here below, fail us not a we cry out to You, unworthy though our voices may be. Overshadow us in the wide breadth of Your effulgence, that the right path may be illuminated once more , even if but for a moment. Upon our shoulders ( Read more... )

I am unable to concede to nihilism, to an arbitrary world wherein chaos is the moral order of the universe. Are we abandonded to absurdity? To create meaning rather than to find it? 
I have seen the fabricated "meaning" that mortals have arbitrated and imposed on all life, on all lives, and truly, nothing is more absurd. The world is unfair. The ( Read more... )