A little girl was standing with her grandfather by an old-fashioned open water well. They had just lowered a bucket and had drawn some water to drink. She asked her grandfather, “Where does God live?” The old man picked up the little girl and held her over the open well. “Look down at the water, and tell me what you see.” “I see myself,” the girl said. “That’s where God lives,” said the old man, “He lives in you.” Read More
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it. Read More
This is a blog post by Joshua Madden that I felt compelled to pass along. Enjoy these five ways to prove God exists…
I’ve heard it. You’ve heard it. We’ve all heard it. “You can’t prove God exists!”
It has been several weeks since my last posting. The reason behind this delay is because I finally took an overdue vacation with my wife. We spent just shy of two weeks to relax and rejuvenate. Then as soon as we returned, I had to go to Amsterdam for business. Now I am back, ready to write again!
When you think of religion in Asia, one automatically thinks of Buddhism and Confucianism. You can imagine how surprised I was when I found out that in South Korea today, a tiny fraction of the population is Confucian, 26% is Buddhist, and 26% is Christian – 10% of whom are Catholic. The means that Christianity is tied, numerically speaking, as the largest religion in that Asian nation. This is truly remarkable considering that Christianity was introduced there just over 200 years ago, and the first native-born priest was ordained only in 1846.
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The past couple of months have been crazy at our house. We had been preparing to send off our twins to college, so we had a whole bunch of errands and things to do to get them ready. So now, we all three of our sons in college – in three different states, and my wife Stephanie and I find ourselves alone again.
Around the same time, the Beloit College Mindset List came out for the Class of 2016, the same year as our twins entering college. This is a non-scientific report that comes out every year to remind teachers that college freshmen see the world in a much different way than you and I. Here are some of the facts: Read More
For those of you who do not know me, I am one of those people who doesn’t need a lot of sleep. I can easily get by on just five to six hours a night, sometimes (and often times) much less than that. It is both a blessing and a curse. Read More
This week, my wife Stephanie and I advanced one step closer to having an empty house. Some may say that this was a traumatic week for us. With one son already away at college, we took another son and moved him into college mid week. We take the remaining son to college this weekend. It’s hard to believe that our boys are off to college when it wasn’t that long ago that we were there ourselves.
Here is a beautiful quote on this Feast of the Assumption, compliments of Saint Bernard…
LET US WALK TOGETHER: thoughts of a Catholic Bishop: A Quote from Saint Bernard of Clairvaux on this Fe…: “In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave you…
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