brenda mcwilliams

2 min read 2022-12-30 19:56:11

Winter Solstice, Religious Festivals and Being the Light

I was awakened at 4 a.m. Christmas morning, not by “visions of sugar plums” but by the words of Dana Shapiro. “Moments that announce themselves

3 min read 2022-10-31 18:56:57

We pulled our little travel trailer from storage and headed out for a four-week road trip. After 10 months of no travel, we embarked on an

3 min read 2022-09-27 18:56:36

Tears welled up during a recent morning walk when Josh Groban’s song “River” came on the playlist. I was not familiar with the song, yet the

3 min read 2022-08-23 18:53:56

My thoughts have been pinging on the phrase “your God.” More specifically, Matthew 22:37-39 has been on my mind: “Love the Lord your God with

3 min read 2022-07-18 18:56:35

Thomas Merton proposed in his 1965 book Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander that a widely accepted U.S. myth was that “America is the earthly