Lin Wilder's Blog, page 51

It’s Done! Now What?

Finally, your first or maybe fifth book is done. All that work, concentration and discipline over, done! For a time we feel exhilaration, relief and pride. But only for a while. Maybe it will be weeks, days or merely hours but inevitably, we’ll hear that voice, “Now what?”

 

Rethinking Martha, Of Mary and Martha

I have always sided with Martha, in defense of her valid complaint against her lazy sister, sitting on her virtual backside while Martha cooks and serves what was most likely a sizable crowd. The Lord was generally accompanied by large groups of people. Imagine suddenly learning that you need to cook for twenty of thirty people? Without help?

 

Preaching to the Choir

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The Audacity of Writing

 

 

Everyone once in a while, seemingly disparate even oxymoronic thoughts become as one: love and writing are like that for me today. There is an audacity necessary to write and to love.

 

The Atheist and The Martyr

The atheist, Robert Bolt, the martyr, Sir Thomas More, and I met in a Houston college classroom decades ago.

 

The Bread: Symbolic or Substantial?

Not long ago was the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. The bread as the Body of Christ. Inciting the priest to teach just what we ingested when we take that consecrated host into ourselves. We were on the central coast at that time and heard two, maybe three homilies on the real presence. And then another when we got back home.

 

It’s All Paradox

In the physics of spirituality, it’s all paradox. St. Thomas Aquinas put down his pen, never to pick it up again, after four-thousand pages of his great work the Summa Theologica. He had reached question 99 when he quit. And when asked why, replied, “…‘All that I have written seems like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.”

 

Break This-For Me

Each Sunday we watch as he is broken apart. The priest raises his hands high so we can’t miss the tearing apart of the host. But only when I read Pope Francis’ homily for the Solemnity we celebrate today, Corpus Christi, did I realize the priest is recreating the breaking of the body of Christ on the cross. Obeying that long ago instruction: Do this in remembrance of me. Take the bread, give thanks and break it. Take the chalice, give thanks and share it.

 

The Single Most Important Attribute for A Writer

I did this article for my friend Suzanne’s online business, Unruly Guides.com a couple of weeks ago. I know most of you are not writers and have little interest in reading about the ups and downs of the craft but I’m wagering that the gist of this post will grab you since grit, perseverance, stick-to-it-ness apply to anything we do in life. Or anything blow we are dealt. Hope you do enjoy it.

 

50 Days- Alleluia Is Our Cry

“We are an Easter people and Alleluia is our cry,” wrote St. Augustine over 1500 years ago. Pentecost, fifty days of joyful celebration of the Resurrection of Christ ended  yesterday.