COLLEGE!! On this, Duke’s 2015 LDOC (Last Day of Classes), I present to you a post I wrote for the Covenant blog yesterday, about vocational discernment–how God calls us to his service–in college and other stages of life.
Having spent all morning laboring over A Case of the Mondays, I gathered myself to head into the office about noon yesterday. Waiting for me in my inbox when I got to work was a request to trek out to a hospice facility to perform Last Rites for a dying parishioner.
Uff. Continue reading
My grandfather died on a Monday. Continue reading
I’ve been on the road (and in the air, and in the snow). Continue reading
I’ve come to believe that there are no coincidences in the liturgical calendar.
I awoke early on 22 December, just as light was beginning to streak the sky, having completely forgotten that the night before was the longest span of darkness for the year before and the year to come. Something made me realize it as I came awake in bed, and I hoped it was a sign that light is starting to break into the ice jam of darkness in my own mind, bringing to an end the exhausting and isolating but yearly phase of grey. Continue reading
hope of things not seen 