Category: Spirituality
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Everyday Stewardship (Pentecost 2015)
My oldest son was having a tougher time than expected in his first year of college. In high school he expected to get A’s and be one of the smarter kids in the class. Now, he was at a school where everyone came from a similar experience in high school, and he found himself pretty…
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What Is God Waiting For?
What Is God Waiting For? I knew I had a problem. It had been years and though I tried and tried, I could not break free. Several attempts of varying lengths of time and degrees of success ultimately led me back to the same place. Finally, I hit rock bottom. I prayed that if God…
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Everyday Stewardship (Ascension 2015)
Some celebrated this yesterday, but most will observe the feast this Sunday. There is a great need in our current world for more Jesus sightings. You used to hear about Elvis sightings from time to time, but we do not need sightings of the King of Rock n Roll. We need sightings of the King…
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Everyday Stewardship (6th Sunday of Easter 2015)
Do you remember being a child and deciding on captains to choose sides for a game of kickball, soccer, or other sport requiring little more than a ball? Kids sat on a curb, waiting to hear their fate. “Surely, I will not be picked last,” each boy or girl thought. But alas, someone always had…
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Surprised By God
“In the Old Testament, the novelty of the Bible did not consist merely in abstract notions but in God’s unpredictable and in some sense unprecedented activity.” – Pope Benedict XVI in Deus Caritas Est “Faith is a gift from God that catapults itself into human experience with a high degree of unpredictability. …faith seems to…
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Everyday Stewardship (5th Sunday of Easter 2015)
I remember one woman I had the privilege of working with in RCIA, who ultimately decided to become Catholic because of the Eucharist. She had experiences in other denominations that held celebrations of Holy Communion, but they did not see the Eucharist as the real presence of Jesus Christ. When she realized what the bread…
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God Don’t Make Junk
It was a great two days in Jasper, IN at Saint Joseph Catholic Church. Thank you to Fr. Ray, Mike Hagerdon, and everyone at the parish for such wonderful hospitality. We had representation in the audience from many different parishes and I pray that God will bless their communities as they seek to share the…
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Shepherding is Not Peaceful
Shepherding is Not Peaceful I was recently reading a book review by Horatio Clare on the UK’s The Telegraph website about a recently published title, The Shepherd’s Life, by James Rebanks. I can’t say I really know a lot about sheep and shepherds. A few years back, I was traveling the Australian countryside to work with parishes and I know…
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What Happens Next?
I am waiting in the airport in Atlanta for a flight to Indy. I have a talk tonight at a parish in Jasper, IN. When I am headed somewhere to speak or give a workshop, I never really know who will show up and how many people will even be present. The parish sometimes has…
Tracy Earl Welliver 