T he Challenge of Being Ordinary “It’s so hard to be ordinary,“ I say to God as I wander down Addison’s Walk at Magdalen College in Oxford, retracing the steps of my beloved C S Lewis.   He walked this way often, “pondering”, the girl at the gate told me.   What words swirled in his mind as he walked, I wondered, words that graced his many insightful books  and the letters he wrote to friends and strangers alike sharing himself so freely?   So, I walk quietly in awe of the awareness of the...

When I first came to the States with my family, we were strangers in a strange land. We soon made friends with other immigrant couples and had lots of fun times together as families from foreign shores. Later I found out that the husband of one couple was an alcoholic and would go on drinking binges for up to a month. He managed to keep his job because he was a highly skilled pattern maker and much in demand. However he would often leave work and go straight to the local tavern and finally...

“Let us be content, then, not with our wage, but with our Master. Let us find our joy not in being first or last, but simply in being found, in being hired, in being home.” I wonder how these words of Dom’s from the last post have impacted you. Our society is based on reward for work done. And our consumer culture has influenced our relationship with God; we tend to make our relationship with God a consumer one-- how can we get from God what we need for ourselves and for those whom we love....