the cross hurts

great and small

If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined
that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same. May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.

And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude. I pass this on to you in the same spirit.

altared

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -Nelson Mandela

peacefully asleep in the knowledge of a job well done

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
~Victor Hugo

Leave the judging to God...

"Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase" - Domenico Scarlatti

Co-workers...

"Faith can move mountains but don't be surprise if God hands you a shovel!" -unknown

One day in the kingdom...

“A Day at the Magic Kingdom Park” is a never-before-seen look at the park in miniature scale. The video is created from a series of photos snapped inside the Magic Kingdom Park. And the trick is tilt-shift photography

swiss family

truth

the cross taught Him that

7 last words

the trick is remembering it

it's all about perspective

Mother of the Word, reign in my heart

let god do god's work

‎"Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly."
--
Ignatius Loyola, SJ

Jesus at Rest

the proof is in the pudding

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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James 1:22