Lin Wilder's Blog, page 37
March 31, 2019
King David, You, Me And Idleness
King David, You, Me and Idleness It isn’t as if King David opened his eyes that morning, to ask, “What are the 3 most effective ways I can take this blessed God-Given-Life and invoke the worst conceivable miseries upon me and on everyone I love, am obligated to?” Or “How can I best take the […]
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March 24, 2019
Making an Oratory of the Heart
Making an oratory of the heart… When I first read the phrase, “oratory of the heart,” in Brother Lawrence’s Practice of the Presence of God, I had to stop and think about the word oratory. It’s not one we hear in daily conversations. It’s one of those words, I thought I knew but upon looking […]
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March 17, 2019
St. Peter: Buffoon Or Hero?
St. Peter: Buffoon or Hero? Each year on this Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus, I think about St. Peter and wonder if he was a buffoon or a bold, brave hero. Putting aside for a moment that the man is a saint, we are told enough about Peter to wonder about the man…buffoon or […]
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March 10, 2019
A Joyous Lent
A joyous lent? It isn’t something you can understand easily. At least I can’t. That essential connection between joy and sorrow. The sorrowful agony of the man on the cross and the joy of the resurrection. I think it’s why we write poetry. Because the two emotions sound wholly opposed, as if they live in […]
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March 3, 2019
Cool Interview from Feathered Quill
Cool interview from Feathered Quill. I am reposting this interview for a couple of reasons. First, although it is the end of the week, I have gotten very little writing done on My Name is Saul. Therefore cannot afford the time to create a new article for Sunday. Hope you’re okay with such candor. Secondly, […]
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February 24, 2019
Certainty: Is There Anything More Seductive?
Certainty: Is there anything more seductive to those of us so hungry for…what exactly? Is it knowledge and wisdom? Or is it more often for affirmation that what we think and believe, even insist, is the truth. In the year 1900, Lord Kelvin took the podium at the British Association of Science to announce: “There […]
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February 17, 2019
High Desert Winds
High Desert Winds “For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense of being at home on this planet, my blood so like the sea in chemical composition, my every cell partaking of air. I live about as far from […]
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February 10, 2019
In Pursuit of Excellence: TB 12
In pursuit of excellence: America’s national passion for football was for many, many years pure mystery to me. I could not understand the attraction of watching a bunch of guys pushing and shoving and occasionally badly injuring one another. For me, football was a total bore. Despite that history, I am one of Tom Brady’s […]
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February 3, 2019
A Silent Mind
“Hold fast to patience with a silent mind.” These words from St. Benedict’s fourth chapter on humility seem to burn through the muddled and distorted thoughts of a mind overwhelmed by the horrors of today’s politics, more accurately described by TV character Garrett Moore of Blue Blood’s wry comment to New York Police Commissioner Frank […]
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January 27, 2019
If We Are Not Frightened by Brutality
If we are not frightened by brutality are not my words, instead, they are those of St. Augustine as he wrote about the serene, loving and Christlike words that poured from the mouth of the brutally tortured and dying martyr, St. Vincent during yet another of the successive regimes of persecution against Christians in the […]
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