At the same time I haven’t been recognizing beauty every time it is before me, I also haven’t been recognizing God. What if those disconnects are related?

saved from the slaughter by that elect and exile people

“We are a community; everyone here is important,” said St. Brigid’s pastor, Josephite Father Kenneth Keke. “Whatever belongs to the parish belongs to everyone; in our parish, the success of anyone is the success of all.”

Amanda Gorman's poem was like a lighting flash that spoke to eternal beauty

he pawed through his closet like a bear in a blackberry bramble

red-eared sliders who work the Rio Grande