Remember the centurion in the Gospel? He’s the Roman military commander who asked Jesus to heal his servant, who was lying painfully…
Posts By: Rose Folsom
The Honor System
In some small towns you can still find parking fines on the honor system. I took this photo last week in Delaware….
The Key to Peace
“The challenge of the Christian life is getting along with people. If we don’t have that, what else is there?” So said…
Grandma’s Loving Look
Mercy is love as it meets the sinner. And the way we “meet” each other most often is the way we look…
Fire and Water
Good habits of thought and action, called virtues, connect us with God. In fact, they make us like God. It’s a little scary…
Mixed Motives
The robin on the power-line outside my window touts a worm in its beak. It doesn’t eat the worm right away, but…
Lessons from a Bean Sprout
Every student in Mr. Palmer’s fourth-grade class nestled a dried bean into a Dixie cup of dirt. Instructions were precise: one inch…
Freedom: A How-To
Last week, I wrote that freedom and forgiveness are pretty much joined at the hip. We all want freedom, but what exactly…
Keep Trying!
Since Divine Mercy Sunday last week, I’ve been buzzing with a desire to receive more mercy, be more forgiving (of myself and others), and…
From Fog to Light
A virtuoso emailed the other day: “I am reading parts of C.S. Lewis again, and came across this: ‘Virtue, even attempted virtue,…
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