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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 ... -
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 ... -
Doughnuts
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)I grew up in the Polish neighborhood on the south side of Milwaukee. It was so Polish that at school I was named Larrski and my friends were Bobski, Bettski, Judski and (of all things) Kevinski. I learned many non-Irish ... -
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 ... -
Year of Mercy
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2016)The word "icon" has gotten a new dressier position in our every-day experience. Icons were restricted to religious images and iconography was the painting or production of such articles. They were often painted on screens ... -
The Giving of Gifts
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2016)It seems to me at this distance of years, that every Christmas my older sister had a different boyfriend. It became a family ritual to be sure to be around when the young lad appeared sometime around the Christmas celebration ... -
Temptations
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2016)Recently I was invited to one of those breakfast places that are explicitly designed to attract the weak-willed sugarholic such as myself. Immediately inside the front door, on both sides, are counters of caloric invitations. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Between a Rock
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2016)Perhaps you have visited Mount Rushmore near Rapid City, South Dakota. Carved upon a granite shield are four faces of former presidents of the United States. It is named after a New York attorney who while touring the area, ... -
Who's In?
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2014)Do kids, now-a-days choose up baseball sides as we did, long ago? The boys in my neighborhood would circle around and one would take a bat, hold it vertically and toss it that way to the fellow representing the other side ... -
Cloudy Skies
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)When I was a younger Jesuit, during evening meals, which were endured in silence, a five-minute reading from the Martyrology began the meal. This book recalled the deaths, in some rather vivid description of the men and ... -
Thanksliving
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)The first five years of my Jesuit life we celebrated the Eucharist very early in the morning in a chapel just down the corridor from the refectory and its adjoining kitchen. Mass lasted thirty minutes and the next fifteen ... -
Ring, Ding, Buzz or Song
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2016)I am pretty up there in years I guess, because I remember using a phone that had a little crank-ringer on its side to get the operator's attention. Then I would give her the number I wanted her to plug me into. She might ... -
Secret Prayers
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)In my Gramma O'Connor's house there was a dark basement which had a room within a room. If we were judged to be naughty, bad, terrible, incorrigible (take your pick according to the transgression), we were threatened to ... -
Will Power
(Creighton University, Online Ministries. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2015)Horse power is a funny kind of name for trucks and cars by which to be measured. Imagine three hundred and fifty horses underneath the hood? One time in my high-school physics class my buddy, Joe, who was on the swimming ...
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