Tag: loneliness

  • Alone—when solitude and presence meet

    Alone—when solitude and presence meet

    At the Transfiguration, a few disciples see Moses and Elijah appear with Jesus. Then, when they blink, Jesus is alone.

  • Lost – a poem about the crippling power of loneliness

    Lost – a poem about the crippling power of loneliness

      LOST Sitting down to feast on bread baked with aromatic spices with a salad topped with vinegar and oil, a pasta perhaps or lamb roasted to a crisp skin but a center so tender it slides off as you pick up the bone, and the wine oh the wine! it flows and the bottles…

  • With: Jesus, shepherds, and feeling alone

    a Homily for Easter 4A Text: John 10:1-10   Alone When I left for college, I was pretty conflicted. In one sense, I was confident and believed in myself. In another, I felt unprepared and was worried that everyone was smarter than I am. I did well in school and had no reason to doubt…