Thank you to Jone who offered our December prompt. Click on her name to read a heartbreaking reflection on holding...
Life at the speed of grace
One of the best – and shortest – homilies I ever heard was given by a deacon on Ash Wednesday some years ago. Instead...
SPIRITUAL JOURNEY: A TURNING
What is it about a word that wends its way into your very being and then insists on staying awhile, till you begin to...
Spiritual Journey: Rest
Carol is leading us this month in reflecting on the joy of summertime. Click on her name for her visual and poetic...
“I am the dance”
dancedance in joy and in griefin tears and in asheslift and carrydancedance ©2023, Patricia J. FranzThese poems...
Spiritual Journey: Shall We Dance?
"I am the dance, and I still go on..." We sang “Lord of the Dance” in many Catholic liturgies during the Easter...
Do This In Memory of Me
It’s 1965. I’m 6 years old. It’s Good Friday. What I know: There will be fish for dinner. Again. Yuck. We...
Words we fall back on
With age comes wisdom, right? - though I suppose foolishness finds its home even in the graying crowd. Deepening...
A Daily Practice
It's Poetry Friday! We're hosted by Carol Varsalona, who is sharing poetry postcards - a delightful poem swap...
The Spiritual Journey: Color & Light
It's a new month, and Bob has asked us to think about the color(s) we project to others, colors that act as a guiding...
Spiritual Thursdays: deeply: one little word
deeply: one little word ©draft, Patricia J. Franzi.longing for deep words that bite, borelike an auger in search of...