Fragment Archives (15 entries)

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Fragment Archives — Fragments are “skinny slivers of life sliced and stored”: moments of captured thoughts and words that surprised me because they came out of my mouth, or at least into my head.

Love Songs

· 17 November 2006 | 9 words

The best love songs always apply to God too....

One Letter Away

· 11 November 2006 | 8 words

Nasty is only one letter away from tasty....

This Sucks

· 19 October 2006 | 22 words

Nothing in nature sucks. It is a vacuum, a difference in pressures. So instead of saying, "This sucks!", say, "This is vacuous!"...

An Odd Analogy

· 10 October 2006 | 49 words

The traffic that speeds by the lone vehicle pulled over onto the side of the highway by the trooper with his police car lights flashing is not much different than a herd of wildebeest standing off at a safe distance...

Worry vs. Control

· 5 October 2006 | 18 words

Someone who worries about you trusts you, but not others. Someone trying to control you doesn't trust you....

Words and Time

· 21 September 2006 | 26 words

It is far more frustrating to have a million words to write and no time than to have the time but the words do not flow....

The Border Between…

· 18 September 2006 | 12 words

The risen Christ stands at the border between doubt and belief. (Fr. B)...

God and Silence

· 9 September 2006 | 9 words

God is to creation as silence is to sound....

Definition of Fairness

· 9 August 2006 | 26 words

Fairness: Every person gets what he or she needs, not necessarily the same thing or same amount, "free from favoritism, self-interest, or preference in judgment."...

Gift

· 25 July 2006 | 51 words

Your life is God's gift to you. You did not earn it. It has been given to you out of pure love. Are you going to enjoy the gift you have been given, and thus honor the Giver? Or are...

Need vs. Want

· 19 July 2006 | 38 words

How refreshing to know You don't need me How amazing to find that You want me -- Casting Crowns, part of refrain of "In Me" Ah! The freedom between the use of the two words, need and want....

Perspective

· 16 July 2006 | 17 words

It's all a matter of perspective--an apple with a worm, or an apple with half a worm....

Humiliation

· 11 July 2006 | 69 words

Any dose of humiliation is a reminder to look toward God, to recognize that we are ultimately powerless and are to live in the first Beatitude of poverty of spirit. Humiliation hurts the little me, the part manufactured by my...

Doubt and Faith

· 8 July 2006 | 20 words

Doubt provides the friction needed to shape faith. Hope provides the energy. So as Fr. Boeckman always says, "Keep hope alive."...

Fragments

· 8 July 2006 | 94 words

I'm going to try a little experiment with this journal. They are called fragments. To borrow Christine Castro's word with a slightly different definition: Fragments are "skinny slivers of life sliced and stored": moments of captured thoughts and words that...