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For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. 1Cor 13:12 “Oh, holy bless my tongue!”  What an exuberant exclamation of satisfaction and gratitude. My mother, [...]

You shall not delay to make offerings from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. Exodus 22:29 One of the common responses to discussions about tithing, or even just [...]

A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” Isa. 40: 3 When a modern head of state travels on the ground anywhere [...]

ABUNTTONY. That’s a new word whose genesis came as a nagging spark as Val and I walked through a Wegman’s. Wegman’s is a chain of very fine, huge, supermarkets, not unlike many supermarkets [...]

In spite of a deep-seated commitment to “see”, and valuing my photojournalist’s eye, I was mindlessly going through the morning routine of watering our plants. Perhaps it was [...]

even small creatures cast shadows… once-powerful death no longer does… the Cross set it all right… Alleluia, Christ is risen!  

    Uugh, all the beautiful daffodils and tulips are wearing out, losing their vibrant glamour, wrinkling, folding, drooping. How appropriate that, this year, they ran out of steam on Palm [...]

In the many years that I had been experiencing retreats at Holy Cross Monastery, on the Hudson River just north of Poughkeepsie, I had never had the opportunity to see an icebreaker at work [...]

Welcome to Oikos, where I will post observations and photos as I journey through God’s creation.