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The Happy-Ending Society
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)Each day lately I have read one fairytale from the brothers Grimm. There have been the usual more familiar stories of Cinderella, Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel. There are many others less known, but almost all are violent. ... -
Sending Forth
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)In many cases, parting is a true sorrow and in other cases there is a sweetness. I noticed something recently about which I have smiled often. Leaving can be quite a lengthy sorrow, because of how much time it takes to ... -
Old and New
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)The old this is now the new that. This seems to apply mainly to bodily age and probably is true with increased health aids and physical exercise. When applied to bodily attractiveness there might be something new as well. ... -
Making Waves
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)I was sitting recently on the end of a pier at a beautiful lake in northern Wisconsin. A quite large speed boat zoomed by and a little while later its noisy waves began slapping my contemplative shore. Then a canoe with ... -
Munch Munch
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)I have decided to not eat anything today until this Glimpse is finished. No, it is not shortly after midnight. I am hungry and so this might be shorter than usual. I would advise the reader to experience a little not-eating ... -
Being Holy
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)There is the old story about the holy monk who on Ash Wednesday decided to hang a huge sausage from his ceiling above his face for mortification during Lent. Each week he would lower the meaty temptation lower and lower. ... -
Statistics Class
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)It is normal to want to know how we're doing. We often ask people in greeting just how they are doing. They normally do not give you anything but a standard flat answer of being "pretty good" or "could do better", or a ... -
Adverbs and Adprayers
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)Does the following writing sound to you "very good" or "very well"?|What is the difference between "good" and "very good"? You might say that the difference is intensity and higher quality when using "very". The two ... -
Lights Off
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)I have a friend who is gravitationally challenged, that is he's God's little acre. He figures that according to Einstein's theory, energy results from MC squared, so that the more the mass the more the energy. He is ... -
Surprises and Interruptions
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)I love slight distinctions and shades of difference. A surprise is quite different from an interruption. It takes humility to be surprised and an agenda to be interrupted. My family, five years ago arranged for my giving ... -
Prayer-Time
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)There is an amazing chemical which doctors use to put people "under" for a short time for various procedures. They needle your arm and ask you to count backwards from one hundred. I did not make it to one hundred. When I ... -
Centering
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2016)I visited recently a family whose backyard was a snow-covered steep hill. A path had been molded so that a flat plastic sled could be sat in for a quite thrilling plunge for persons of any age and any degree of trust. I ... -
Indulgences and Annoyances
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)During the recent Christmas-holiday time, I experienced several minor indiscretions in the various areas of cookie containers, cake plates, candy boxes, and even the much-maligned fruitcake tin. They were minor, because I ... -
Hands and Faces
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)A natural physical response to making a mistake or in other ways looking foolish or humiliated is to cover our countenance with our hands. This would literally be a "face-saving" device. Shame is losing face or in some way ... -
May I Have a Menu Please?
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)The seven members of our small community had to go out to dinner recently, because the automatic dishwasher, after twenty-five years, gave up the soapy ghost. Why didn't we just wash the dinner dishes by hand? We're not ... -
Where's the There
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)We had a bit of snow today and I trudged across our campus with my new boots, crunching new paths for later-ones to travel safely. Snow measured three inches. It did cause me an admiring reflection about Robert Peary's ... -
Rejectionable
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)Our campus here at Creighton University is safe and secured by many cameras and Public Safety personnel. Here's something I have observed in my many years at Creighton. Male students most often walk alone, unless accidentally ... -
Shining a Light
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)I live in what is known as, "a fly-over state". Many planes a day cross over what appears to be a quite flat and uninteresting area. Some flights do land at our airports, but actually most planes could land anywhere out ... -
Happy New Ear
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2016)Because we wish completion, wholeness and perfection, when we come to an end of something rather important we can experience a kind of sadness. These days everything has a syndrome. Termination syndrome can swoop upon us ... -
Being Noble
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)In the history of the human experience of being governed the most usual form has been Royal Dominion, which is a king or queen having sway over their subjects. Nobility was the form, but not always the substance including ...
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