Posts from June 2025

I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear the word, love, I am immediately drawn to words that convey an action; for you English majors, verbs! In his poem, These I Can Promise, Mark Twain relates that love, if we allow it, provides us with an anchor to weather the ups-and-downs of our earthly lives. I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold;I cannot promise you an easy pathwayThat leads away from change or growing old.But I…

At least once a year, we need to venture into the infinitude of God and to explore it rather than shy away from such impossibility. We wonder about this lure of the infinite that makes us feel so very small, so embarrassingly inept and yet so loved by the ultimate, most perfect Being, our Triune God from whom our very existence directly depends. As our faith grows over time, we were taught, correctly so, that we cannot probe God’s mystery. However,…