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Dear God, According to your friend Luke, you say this: Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? Otherwise, after laying the…

One of the new features I’m adding to Beyond Blue this week is the “Prayer of the Week.” A couple of reasons for this: 1) I’m trying to get more spiritual, and I’m using my fear deadlines to get there. Deadlines hold great power over me. If I force myself to write a prayer every…

Writing the prayer of the week based on Sunday’s readings has forced me to pay attention to the homily at Mass, because now the priest’s reflections can be material for my blog. I figure they may have picked up on themes that I missed. One of the priests at St. Mary’s in Annapolis, Fr. Andrew…

I must confess that the idea for my prior post, “The Saints’ Guide to Anxiety,” was not wholly original. It was somewhat borrowed from the title of one of my very favorite books, “The Saints’ Guide to Happiness” by my friend, Robert Ellsberg. It was difficult to find one excerpt to share, because there are…
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