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Identity Crises
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2016)My younger brother's daughter was doing her research for her Doctorate degree. Her subject area was and is the rehabilitation of the brain after trauma to one or other areas of the brain. As part of that study she invited ... -
Tapping Faith
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)This present college generation is not familiar with the things of the past, of my past at least. I mentioned in class recently that the Creighton brothers, whose money helped begin our university, made their money in ... -
Working Away
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)There is a polite form for casually greeting people. I say "Hello" and you might say, "How are you?" I would say "Fine" and you would say something in response such as "That's good". As a different kind of person, when ... -
Meet and Greet
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)I have met some rather important people. Some made me feel unimportant by their shaking my hand, but their looking toward the next person whose hand they would shake after mine. In my perversity I have held on to their ... -
Know Thyself
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2016)A few weeks ago I was offering a presentation at a Catholic parish and at the end of one of the evenings a woman asked, "How do you know when you know yourself?" Now that did stop me in my verbal tracks. So I stopped her ... -
Interruptions and Invitations
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)Everything about which I am going to relate to you is absolutely true, without varnish, garnish or exaggerations. Picture this please. I have just finished passing through the security check machine at the local airport. ... -
What's in a Word?
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)I phoned recently an office here on campus and asked for a certain person. I was told that he was in the middle of a conference. I asked when did the conference begin and was told that the receptionist didn't know. I ... -
Measuring Up
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)Did you ever wonder if you were a good sharpener of pencils or reader of thermometers? Probably not. There is a measurement in the field of statistics known as "Standard deviations". I did not do very well in that course, ... -
Missing Letters
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)Gee-wizz, golly-gee, gee-willakers, are quite common expressions of amazement. The letter g has a quite important place in our language, at least it used to. Place your thumb and index fingers astride your Adam 's apple ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Depths
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)Several times each summer, my brother and I go out sailing on his two-person boat which has one sail and several leaky wounds. We are hearty mates and as we are preparing for the lift off or embarkation, or push-away, ... -
Our Real Name
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)If you were to live absolutely alone, I mean if nobody else was ever around, things in your living-space would not need to have names. You would not have to explain what that thingamajig was, because you would know it by ...
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