Teachers, at the end of your year…

Like most of you, most of them are looking forward to a break. But do not forget about the few who aren’t… They are why you teachers matter beyond anyone’s understanding…

Neil’s Emmanuel Prayer for Neil

My Sweet and All-Merciful Lover, By Your freely-given grace that has seen me through all things, and always will, I will pour out what You have filled my heart with, in the staggering certainty of faith. When the anxious, fearful, and ashamed Neil rises up in me today, as he surely will, fill me withContinue reading “Neil’s Emmanuel Prayer for Neil”

Suffering demands a fix. We lie to ourselves

Every act you have performed to alleviate suffering in the world amounts to sacrificing something of yourself.

“Blessings” are horrendous and offensive. Descartes

Comparison is the fuel of the ego engine.

On a mother’s love

No child is ever free from his mother except to the extent that she wills and sets the child so.