A few weeks ago I popped into a hair-cutting establishment for a trim. I go to the same place each time but take luck of the draw as to who wields the scissors, which is a remarkable statement of faith, now that I think about it. But what the heck, I figure. It always grows back.…
Well glory hallelujah!
Why can’t I make a nest? Yesterday I wrote about coming advancements in the possibility of medical intervention to overcome the disabling effects of Down syndrome in the brain. This was in the context of a promise to a family with a newborn with Downs. Little did I realize… In today’s Wall Street Journal there…
Another detour on Route 21…
I saw a friend last night who’d been out of town for several weeks to be with her daughter for the birth of her first baby. Almost before I could ask her how things had gone, she said, “We have to talk.” In that instant I knew that the baby had been born with Down…
Healing
Yesterday’s gospel reading was on the healing of Peter’s mother, who was abed with a fever when Jesus visited, and he healed her on the spot. Fr. Larry thus addressed the subject of healing, surely a perplexing one for most of us, since we all have had the experience of praying–desperately–for a loved one to…