Mercy come call on my cynical heart—a New Year’s prayer
…Pope Francis has called 2016 the year of mercy, perhaps the following can be one of the year’s prayers: Mercy, come call on my cynical heart. Doubt I can...
Category: Hope
For those that find Christmas a time of heartache
Within the lift of coloured lights—a parcel of sadness. Under the ornaments, the tinsel, the tree—a box of loss. At the gathering of family and friends, holes: ...
Stuff I believe, now that I’m sixty-one and basically a grown man
I once believed that I was an agent of original thought, now in the five-o’clock shadow of life, I see that I am something like a lego-man—a composite of longin...