Top Excuses Not to Pray? We can come up with a lot of reasons not to pray. It takes too long, and we are too busy.  But this is not true in the parable of the man who asks his neighbor for bread. He goes there at midnight and asks, “Do you have some bread...

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Looking Beyond My favorite place to fish on the Cape is Morris Island. The water is turquoise blue with miles of sand dunes. I was fishing there one day, and I turned around and noticed a house on top of the cliff with the shades down, blocking the beautiful view. So here is my question–...

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There is a rock in front of St. John Seminary where I teach. I am assuming it was there since the last ice age and it will probably be there at the start of the next ice age. If we drew a line from one ice age to the other, we would have a timeline...

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The Samaritans are not allowing Jesus to pass through their village. Now, Jesus and His disciples no longer have a shortcut to Jerusalem. They have to take the long way. Bad Samaritans! They are racists; they hate Jews. At least that is what the disciples believe. The activists want to send down fireballs and wipe...

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God created the world in six days, and he rested in the seventh. Recently, I was thinking about God Who, having created the world in six days, rested on the seventh. If I were God, I would not have rested on the seventh day. Instead, I would have stepped into the office for a few...

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Mariano Rivera is one of the greatest closers in baseball. Allow me to describe his unhittable pitch. Take a golf ball and tee it up.  Now grab a driver and swing away. Just about three inches before impact, the ball rolls off the tee. That is a Rivera pitch.  So you are in the batter’s box. ...

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