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Photo by Pietro De Grandi on Unsplash As we plug along during this pandemic, there will come a point where each one of us will struggle to see how exactly to live through this time. I don’t mean how to keep from getting sick or getting others sick (this should be rather obvious, even though…

Photo by Darran Shen on Unsplash I remember my wife, Amy, telling the story of her dad coaching her and her sisters in football (soccer to Americans, football to the rest of the world, because, you know, you use your feet). This was in the 1970’s before there was much knowledge of this other kind…

Photo by ON MY BLUE JEANS on Unsplash In the Closing chapter of Joseph Marshall’s Keep Going we overhear the conversation of an aging grandfather and his adult son: He reminded me often, as I remind you now; there is another Grandfather. Remember that in our language Grandfather also refers to the Great Power others…

Photo by Lucie Dawson on Unsplash Things Should Not Be This Way Richard Rohr, an author, Franciscan Friar, and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) related the following story in one of his daily meditations: According to a Buddhist legend, there once was a woman who sought out the Buddha after losing her baby to…