Most of us can picture a life preferable to the one we have Some of us spend entirely too time doing that We scarcely notice the details of the dream changing but the imagined life is even more variable than the real one The only constant seems the stubbornness of God in not granting our wishes

The psychological health of a saint tells us nothing about the God who normally guides, but sometimes supersedes, the natural order.

The morning of April 22 1915 French and Canadian soldiers were immovably entrenched to the north of Ypres a Belgian city in the Flemish province of West Flanders nbsp They saw a strange green-yellow cloud form above the opposing German trenches It then billowed across no man rsquo s land into

How history is recited matters almost as much as what happened When someone as talented as Shakespeare tells your tale the image stays fixed But I that am not shaped for sportive tricks Nor made to court an amourous looking-glass I that am rudely stamp rsquo d and want love rsquo s majestyTo stru

Hamlet expires saying ldquo The rest is silence rdquo nbsp When someone dies a stillness descends nbsp However feebly he might have communicated to us even a moment before mdash with a gesture or a sigh mdash the soul of the other enters a silence in death nbsp It rsquo s so final so abs

Hearing a vocational story is similar to asking someone how he fell in love.

Christianity directly assaults the distinction between the holy and the mundane.

A Palm Sunday reflection on the importance of regret

Waiting is the hardest Why Because if you rsquo re waiting you know that something is coming You rsquo re not blissfully ignorant Yet if you rsquo re waiting you don rsquo t truly know what is coming what it will be like That rsquo s why waiting is so difficult often worse than the moment

Interesting phrase ldquo It rsquo s just your imagination rdquo We use it to tell another that her fears spring from her mind rather than reality as though the two weren rsquo t intertwined Fears are part world part whimsy That rsquo s true as well of inventions and inspirations They begin