He was actually bragging about being the best at being the worst! I'm not kidding! I sat in front of him staring in absolute disbelief in what I was hearing. I was lamenting the shallow commitment of my own heart to the rigorous practice of the Faith, when he...
There's one word that those who know me best would NEVER use to describe me: Gentle! I don't know if it's my "creative" use of language or just my deep suspicion of spineless mediocrity, but I am rarely what you might call "gentle." I tend toward the "over-the-top" and...
I stood line line for what seemed like hours, but my friends and I REALLY wanted tickets to this concert. I mean we really did! We wanted them so bad that standing outside for hours, missing other events, and even getting a little hungry didn't stop us from doing...
It's amazing how perspectives change as you get older. When I was a kid in elementary school, we boys were absolutely convinced that the girls had cooties! Of course, we had no idea what "cooties" were, but if the girls had them then that meant we needed to be as...
The older I get the more I'm convinced I'm not going to live long enough to learn all I want or even need to learn. There just seems to always be more! And that can be a daunting realization for a man who (foolishly) believes he has some sense...
There was a stunning article in the January 2013 issue of Boston Magazine. It was entitled "Losing Our Religion" and the article begins by telling the story of a mother and her 9 year old son watching a procession of the faithful from the Greek Orthodox church across the...
"Count your blessings. Name them one by one. Count your many blessings, see what God has done." When I sang that old hymn as a boy, I wondered what it could mean. After all, how can you count your blessings. There are so many. All you'd do is count...
OK, so one of my most favorite movies in the whole world is "Princess Bride" and one of my most favorite scenes in the movie is when Vincent keeps using the word "inconceivable!" Finally, after so many times of hearing this word from Vincent, Inigo Montoya responds "You keep...
David Draiman of the band Disturbed "Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping. Left it's seeds while I was sleeping. And the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains within the sound of silence." The opening lines from...
Have you ever heard of the story of the donkey who saved a prophet's life by talking to him? And you thought your dreams were strange! Seriously, this powerful story in the First Testament is worth your time! Read the whole story in Numbers 22. To make a long story...
