Posted September 17, 2016 in Sacred Stories

Ed!

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He was enjoying a morning off.

He knew he wanted to stop and see a friend who had just gotten back in town after spending the winter in Florida.

He stopped in at a garage sale in a nearby town.

There was his friend buying a hat!

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Posted September 10, 2016 in Sacred Stories

Boston

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Coming into the waiting room to see her client out of the building, she discovered a woman looking around.

“May I help you?” she inquired of the woman.

The woman responded, “I thought you had a book store here. I am looking for a book about preparing for surgery.”

“Oh, we don’t have […]

Posted August 27, 2016 in Sacred Stories

Just Do It!

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Feeling somewhat desperate, trying to decide if she should sign the lease without others being committed to sharing the space, she blurted out, “I believe in me!”

Just as she did, she saw a wadded up garment on the side of the road. The previous week, she had found a pair of […]

Posted August 20, 2016 in Sacred Stories

Lord's Supper

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Her grandfather was quite the artist. He did mostly religious paintings. A favorite piece depicting the Lord’s Supper, hung above his bed.

PHILADELPHIA – MAY 17: Father Gregory Fairbanks, a professor at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, speaks to the media next to a picture of “The Last Supper” […]

Posted August 13, 2016 in Sacred Stories

Love is Strange

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She and their baby son had gone to stay with her parents, to give her husband some time to sort things out.

Her friend was out for a bike ride and came upon a larger-than-life chalk message on the newly blacktopped road.

The message was, “Hey! Everything will be okay. Love […]

Posted August 6, 2016 in Sacred Stories

Headstone

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One of the most difficult tasks of their lives lay ahead of them: selecting a headstone for their infant baby daughter.

Browsing the website, hoping that looking before they went would help her get through it, a black slant-cut heart-shaped stone caught her attention. She did not mention this to her husband, […]

Posted July 16, 2016 in Sacred Stories

Lifeguard

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He was walking on the local pier with some friends.

St. Joseph North Pier Lights in St. Joseph Michigan 707855

Several guys, slightly older than he and his friends, jumped off the pier into the water. One started going down! Others were calling out that they could not swim.

His […]

Posted July 9, 2016 in Sacred Stories

Become a Priest

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She purposely avoided engaging with the man entering the church just as she was leaving. She had never seen him before, and she was in a hurry to meet someone.

She pushed on the door. It did not budge.

Assuming that the right side door was locked already, her thought was to […]

Posted July 2, 2016 in Sacred Stories

Coke!

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Following his transition, a young man’s mother was feeling very bereft. When she went into a convenience store one day, to buy a cola, she numbly slid the cooler door open.

Reaching in, there on the shelf of the cooler, staring right out at her, was a bottle with her son’s first […]

Posted May 28, 2016 in Sacred Stories

Cookies

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He was writing a column about birds sneaking treats without getting caught. The column jogged thoughts he admitted to a friend. When his neighbor, who is an excellent cook, bakes a scrumptious cake, or delicious cookies, he would often entertain thoughts of surreptitiously sneaking into her kitchen and sampling some, without getting caught. […]