Posts in Spirituality

It takes a couple miracles to be officially named a saint. Facing up to the doubt we sometimes feel, Joe Simmons wonders if these healing are verdicts in search of evidence or something more.

In a counter-review, Brendan Busse counters his friend and brother Perry Petrich’s claim that “People are always hungry, cold and full of desire.”

I had a fool-proof plan for what would happen when I shared the passage with my prayer group: it was going to be a miracle. A salty tears, angelic choruses, cataracts falling from eyes, miracle.

“I gently tugged the fortune loose from the cookie’s gnarled grasp. It’s sacred parchment was half translucent from sesame oil where the cookie had pinched the paper. And before eating I read silently, expectantly, to myself…”

“Muscles don’t grow unless they’re stretched; wounds don’t heal unless their cleaned and tended to. …Babies are not born without considerable pain. Nor are they raised without pain…”

“I should have trusted her… but instead I was like a nervous disciple in a storm tossed ship; and she was graceful, calming the storm of my fear; her gentle eyes telling me: be not afraid…”

“A couple was very much in love. Like most lovers, their life together was a story deeper than it was long…”

“The world won’t always be comfortable; sometimes reality hits us like the sting of a cold shower…”

We had arrived just ahead of a summer storm, an electric charge in the air. We were greeted by a woman with an oxygen tank in tow. “I’m so glad you’re here,” she said.