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Lament

Posted on by Michael Rose
There was a tradition in a segment of Psalms referred to as the lament psalms. It was the pouring out of one’s grief with all its ugliness to God. It was often in response to great loss, death, war, captivity and often gave voice to great despair and anger. In all the rawness that could…
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I’m Burnt Out on Outrage

Posted on by Michael Rose
I was speaking with a friend today who was expressing indignation at a particularly twisted bit of theology.  It was one of those things one can only shake one’s head, with mouth agape in wonderment, at such profound theological abuse. I found that in reading it, I had no energy to be outraged.  Yes, it…
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Loving our Lepers

Posted on by Michael Rose
There is an old story about St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), the founder of the Catholic order known as the Franciscans. The story goes that Francis was revolted by people with leprosy. As you may be aware, leprosy is a horrible and disfiguring disease.  While leprosy is curable today, people did suffer terribly and from…
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Conspiring for Wholeness

Posted on by Michael Rose
I was walking with a friend, and we were talking about life and its challenges.  We were talking about how sometimes we can get driven along by the frenetic pace of life, lose our balance and be tossed around on the currents of circumstances, feeling like we are adrift and aimless.  And other times, like…
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Love is… Indiscriminate

Posted on by Michael Rose
Consider a rose.  Can a rose choose who it will share its breath-taking beauty with?  Can it withhold its captivating fragrance from bad people and share liberally with good people?  The sun shines, and the rain falls on the saints and the sinners alike. Authentic love does not discriminate, like the beauty and fragrance of…
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Divine love and a road trip to a kite festival

Divine Love and Road Trips

Posted on by Michael Rose
This is another photo taken on our trip to a Kite Festival in Saskatchewan, Canada.   The prairies can provide breathtaking scenery. The contrast of dark sky and land with the layer of light between them was remarkable.   Despite being captured by a phone camera, traveling in a car at 120kph, I think it…
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Who Mourns the Sparrow?

Posted on by Michael Rose
Who will mourn the Sparrow? After all, what’s a sparrows life worth? How could we measure? Two for a penny? Four on sale? With no fanfare, no prayers, no eulogy No acknowledgement they ever lived Two for a penny? Four on sale? Surely it doesn’t escape its creators gaze Assuredly ascending in Her tender care…
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