This meditation centers on the birth of the Christ child. He was rejected from the start, yet went on to become the most honest and authentic voice of all time. His haunting message remains the great challenge to or modern world. In this Christmas meditation, we are asked not to speak but stay in silence. We are asked to stay in wonder. Wonder as a child wonders at the wonder of it all. Only a God immense would dare to become so terribly small. Stay awake to the mystery.  Experience it. Do not try to define it. The birth of Jesus is a contradiction; infinity wrapped in swaddling clothes! This appears as a joke to the crass but a dream to larger minds.

This meditation is suitable for viewing in senior citizen homes and for a celebration of fatherhood in all homes. A gift of love is a gentle story about the grace and dignity of an old man who has wisely come to terms with his own mortality. Youth does not tell the full story. The harvest time of life is replete with seed for spring, and autumn brings a man's life to a splendid coloring. This meditation is a memory piece.

The photos in this meditation were mostly taken in New England. They are pictures of the colors of autumn. The leaves in the fall address a deep felt ontological need for beauty, but there is a deeper whisper at work in the fall's miraculous turn of events. The magnificence of this yearly occurrence reminds us of our own fragility. The autumn leaves teach us there is a time to be born and a time to die. The autumn leaves ask, (contrary to the avoidance of a healthy attitude toward death so prevalent in our culture) that we learn the wisdom of insecurity. Like all the laws of nature, we too must let go. We cannot cling forever to the limb of material security. Our death is a metamorphosis. The leaves of autumn enrich the soil for another growth in another year.

This program is a hymn of thanksgiving to the God of life. It praises God for the gift of living. It begs that we use our five senses carefully. These gifts have been given to us for noble purposes. This meditation is also a song of praise for the gift of the warmth of the sun, which through the miracle of photosynthesis gives us our daily bread. A Song for God pleads that we be grateful for God's attendance to our needs, especially for Jesus who is divinity's greatest ambassador to this world.

This meditation is most suitable for a Mother's Day celebration. It is also very appropriate for women's clubs. A Woman Remembered is the story of a mother's love. It recounts how this mother of sixteen children, in faithfullness to her vocation, stayed with her commitment to the very end. Like the forging salmon she submitted to all the expenditure involved in her call, and then like Christ who hung in love upon the wood of a tree, her lovely life was rendered and torn asunder. This is not a sad story though. Instead it has been knitted with the stitches - the joys and the tears which come into a mother's life every day. This woman, imaginative and practical as she was found her God in what is real. Her church was her home and her work her prayer. She did not crave theophanies or thunderbolts from the sky to make her believe in God Such happenings if they occur are for the weak not the strong. Her spirituality was in the ordinary. Her prayer erupted from the real. Love such as her's effused the romper room of her everyday world. But because of her faith, the room she now rocks her cradle in is the grand ballroom of God.

This meditation centers on waiting and expectancy. Advent is  a time of preparation for divinity's greatest probe into human history. The most spectacular appearance of God in human flesh happened through the incarnation of Jesus. In this meditation we are asked to prepare ourselves  spiritually for Christ's coming. We are asked to look into our souls, and not spend all our energy on externals. It is an anomaly that in our modern culture, we call a birthday party, eat the birthday cake, but absent is the honored guest from our table.

We live in a world where violence and crime are rampant. Most of us feel less and less safe. A torrid dysfunctionality more and more reigns  supreme. Greed and the insatiable demands of the ego hold sway over our spirits. This is original sin. We are born into this. As we grow older we become aware of a constant battle between our immediate surface ego and our unconscious or super ego. Except for the refinement which spirituality offers us, we will live on the lowlands of complacency and selfishness. Baptism is the sacrament by which we become initiated into the counter culture world of Jesus. Baptism is a sacrament of commitment, whereby we promise to renounce the world of original sin and put on the cloak of Christ's refinement. When we are babies, our parents and godparents make this promise for us. They, along with the whole christian community promise to be a sacrament- support for their newest member. The future will be a constant contest between good and evil. Initiation into the life of Jesus is the great antidote for the storm ahead

This meditation concerns itself with child parent relationship. Early childhood is a very tender and fragile time. We learn through the scriptures that God has created us to be raised up to the heavens. Each new born child is incredibly well made, and of supreme importance in the sight of God. Human beings are the crowning achievement of God's creative energy. A new born child is God's masterpiece. Parents need to be aware that their children are gifts. They are only on loan. If a little child does not experience genuine love and acceptance in the home, then that child will grow up with a poor self image. Parents must mirror back to their children a sense of their significance and worth. if a child's foundation is not supportive and secure, then the child will emerge psychologically malnourished and damaged. The child will grow up a wounded child. To the extent we are denied significance and worth as a child, to that same extent, will we resort to neurotic forms of power as a substitute for this loss of significance.

Celtic spirituality erupted from the East rather than the West. It traces its roots to the fathers of the Egyptian desert. Many of the carvings on the Irish high crosses depict this interface and exchange between the Coptic Church and the Celtic monks of early Irish Christendom. Celtic Spirituality is essentially mystical. It did not concern itself with dogma and legalism. It is non dualistic. It suggests that contraries are complimentary and possibilities are stressed by their opposite. Darkness and light are the one reality. Life and death are the one reality. A woman cannot have a baby without pain. Joy and suffering are the same reality. Harmony evolves out of chaos. Celtic Spirituality suggests that God lives in thin places; in that threshold space between the seen and unseen. God is ineffable. God is experience. God cannot be defined. God is penumbral. God lives beneath the surface. Celtic Spirituality teaches that everything is sacred; nothing is secular. God invades and invests his spirit in the midst of the ordinary. The natural world is a cathedral. The song of the bird is a call from a sanctuary. Celtic Spirituality invites us to become attuned to the extraordinary dancing through the ordinary.