๐†๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐“๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐„๐ฑ๐ญ๐ซ๐š ๐ˆ๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ

โ€œ๐‘ฌ๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’Ž๐’† ๐‘ฐ ๐’‘๐’“๐’‚๐’š๐’†๐’… ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’†๐’™๐’•๐’“๐’‚ ๐’Š๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’”๐’ ๐‘ฐ ๐’„๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’‚๐’•๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‰๐’Š๐’Ž ๐’‚ ๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’•๐’๐’† ๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“.โ€ ๐‘จ ๐’‡๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’‡๐’๐’†๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’๐’๐’—๐’† ๐’‰๐’† ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’”๐’๐’, ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’‰๐’๐’“๐’• ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Ž, โ€œ๐‘ฌ๐’™๐’•๐’“๐’‚ ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’”โ€ (๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿต) A few weeks ago, my wife, son, and I attended a short film festival in Manasquan, NJ called Asbury Shorts which has …

Planting New Seeds of Hope This Spring

โ€œYes, there will be growth in the springโ€, the character Chauncey Gardner in the movie, Being There (1979) That quote above by the late Peter Sellers from the movie ๐๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž is one of my favorite movies of all time where he plays a reclusive gardener named Chance and is thrust into the world of …

Patient Trust in Grieving a Loss

โ€œAbove all, trust in the slow work of Godโ€ย  Excerpt from the prayer โ€œPatient Trustโ€ by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ Earlier this month we concluded another Daytime and Evening cohort of our Parish Bereavement Program and as always, we closed our final session with a beautiful prayer called โ€œPatient Trustโ€ by Pierre Teilhard de …

Empty Chairs and New Chairs: My Thanksgiving Table of Plenty

โ€œ๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‡๐’†๐’‚๐’”๐’• ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‰๐’†๐’‚๐’—๐’†๐’ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’•๐’‰, ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’•๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‘๐’๐’†๐’๐’•๐’š. ๐‘ฎ๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’—๐’Š๐’…๐’† ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’˜๐’† ๐’๐’†๐’†๐’… ๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’‚๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’•๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‘๐’๐’†๐’๐’•๐’šโ€ ๐‘ณ๐’š๐’“๐’Š๐’„๐’” ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’†๐’ ๐‘บ๐’„๐’‰๐’–๐’•๐’•๐’† This photo of my family was taken on Thanksgiving Day in 1971 when I was 16 years old and a junior at Paramus …

๐’๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ: ๐‡๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐„๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐‹๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐๐š๐œ๐ค ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐Ž๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ž๐ง๐ž ๐’๐ž๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐…๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ?

๐– ๐—Œ ๐–บ ๐–ก๐–พ๐—‹๐–พ๐–บ๐—๐–พ๐—†๐–พ๐—‡๐— ๐–ข๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—‡๐—Œ๐–พ๐—…๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ข๐—ˆ๐–บ๐–ผ๐—, ๐–จ ๐—๐–บ๐—๐–พ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐—๐—ˆ๐—‡๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐—ˆ๐–ฟ ๐—Œ๐—Ž๐—‰๐—‰๐—ˆ๐—‹๐—๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐—‚๐—‡๐–ฝ๐—‚๐—๐—‚๐–ฝ๐—Ž๐–บ๐—…๐—Œ ๐—๐—๐—‹๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—€๐— ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐—๐–บ๐—‹๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—Œ ๐—Œ๐—๐–บ๐—€๐–พ๐—Œ ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–พ๐—†๐—ˆ๐—๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‡๐—Œ ๐—๐—๐–บ๐— ๐–บ๐—‹๐—‚๐—Œ๐–พ ๐–ฝ๐—Ž๐—‹๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐—๐—‚๐—†๐–พ๐—Œ ๐—ˆ๐–ฟ ๐—†๐–บ๐—ƒ๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐–ผ๐—๐–บ๐—‡๐—€๐–พ. ๐–ณ๐—๐—‚๐—Œ ๐—†๐–บ๐—’ ๐—‚๐—‡๐–ผ๐—…๐—Ž๐–ฝ๐–พ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐—…๐—ˆ๐—Œ๐—Œ ๐—ˆ๐–ฟ ๐–บ ๐—…๐—ˆ๐—๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐—ˆ๐—‡๐–พ, ๐–บ ๐—ƒ๐—ˆ๐–ป, ๐–บ ๐—๐—‹๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐–ป๐—…๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐—‹๐–พ๐—…๐–บ๐—๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‡๐—Œ๐—๐—‚๐—‰, ๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐–พ๐—๐–พ๐—‡ ๐–บ๐–ฝ๐—ƒ๐—Ž๐—Œ๐—๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐–บ ๐—‡๐–พ๐— ๐–พ๐—‡๐—๐—‚๐—‹๐—ˆ๐—‡๐—†๐–พ๐—‡๐— ๐—๐—๐–บ๐— ๐—†๐–บ๐—‹๐—„๐—Œ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ป๐–พ๐—€๐—‚๐—‡๐—‡๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐—ˆ๐–ฟ ๐–บ ๐—‡๐–พ๐— ๐–ผ๐—๐–บ๐—‰๐—๐–พ๐—‹ …

๐ˆ๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐š ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐’๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง: ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ˆ ๐‚๐š๐ง ๐‹๐ž๐ญ ๐†๐จ ๐Ž๐Ÿ?

โ€œ๐‘ญ๐’๐’“ ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’”๐’†๐’‚๐’”๐’๐’, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’•๐’Š๐’Ž๐’† ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’•๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐’–๐’๐’…๐’†๐’“ ๐’‰๐’†๐’‚๐’—๐’†๐’ โ€ฆ ๐’‚ ๐’•๐’Š๐’Ž๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’Œ๐’†๐’†๐’‘ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’•๐’Š๐’Ž๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’“๐’๐’˜ ๐’‚๐’˜๐’‚๐’šโ€ ๐‘ฌ๐’„๐’„๐’๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’‚๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’” ๐Ÿฏ:(๐Ÿญ-๐Ÿด) I hadย a great hike last week with Cali, one of our three Golden Retrievers, celebrating all the beauty of the new autumn season now upon us. And, as …

Grieving Job Loss: You Can’t Heal What You Don’t Feel

โ€œ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’๐’๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’•๐’˜๐’†๐’†๐’ ๐’๐’ ๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’š๐’†๐’•. ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’๐’˜๐’” ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’•๐’ ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’†๐’ˆ๐’“๐’‚๐’•๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’‰๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’†๐’… ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’š๐’๐’–, ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’š๐’๐’–โ€™๐’—๐’† ๐’†๐’™๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’„๐’†๐’…, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’“๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’†. ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’Š๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’„๐’†, ๐’‘๐’๐’”๐’”๐’Š๐’ƒ๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’๐’‘๐’‘๐’๐’“๐’•๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’๐’“๐’.โ€ ๐‘ต๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’š ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’—๐’Š๐’, ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’‡๐’–๐’ ๐‘ฌ๐’™๐’Š๐’• Job loss can often trigger a range of emotions …