Title: Voices Date: January 18, 2009 Texts: I Sam 3:1-20; Jn 1:43-51 Author: Isaac Villegas “In my soul I feel just that terrible pain of loss, of God not wanting me, of God not being God, of God not really existing.” “If I ever become a saint, I will surely be one of darkness.” — [...]

One of the Charles family traditions that my Grandmother started is that instead of exchanging Christmas gifts we share a story about something which happened to us during the year. This is the story I wrote a little belatedly this year and decided to send it out as my latest update. “It’s the simple things” [...]

Title: Fully Alive Date: Jan 11, 2009, the Baptism of our Lord Texts: Gen 1:1-5; Ps 29; Mk 1:4-11 Author: Isaac Villegas “The glory of God is the human being fully alive…” — Irenaeus, 2nd century Last week I finally got around to cutting out a bunch of the dead plants in my front yard—Baptisias, [...]