Jim Flowers (Page 60)

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“All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray,” once sang the Mamas and the Papas…Isaiah puts it differently and quite a bit more dramatically, ” Behold darkness covers the land; a deep gloom enshrouds the people. My father’s mantra to my brothers and me regarding curfew while we were teenagersRead More →

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One of my favorite books as a child was a book entitled Gods and Heroes. It was an illustrated collection of Greek myths written for children. To this day I can see Zeus in my mind’s eye. My mother read it to us over and over until the cover finally fell apart. I stillRead More →

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K and I were walking our dog towards British Park this past Sunday afternoon. It was a beautiful Fall afternoon. We walked by a vacant lot in which two men obviously homeless were standing in the middle of it eying it with puzzled disappointment, because the owner had bush-hogged all the underbrush so thatRead More →

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Over the holidays K and I saw the new movie The Way. It is based on a novel written by a former college classmate of mine. The protagonist is an ophthalmologist living the hard earned “good life” whose adult son decides, against his father’s  judgement, to drop out of so-called life forRead More →

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This coming Sunday is the last Sunday of ordinary time that we call the succession of the Sundays after Pentecost. It is the longest season of the year and deals mostly with Jesus’ life, ministry and teaching amid a world in which such “Good News” is either rejected or misunderstood. Indeed,Read More →