Presence: Experiencing God Each And Every Day

I notice that the sun is rising now at 7 am - right as I am leaving for work. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

It was time to wash my dress shirts which I wear everyday to teach in. I feel God near in this care-full ritual. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I am thinking about big things like Teilhard deChardin's understanding of the noosphere and I discover a TED Talk which is all about it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I don't have school as my colleagues learn how to use Power School for next year. Simultaneously my wife was with our daughter as she had surgery to have tubes put into hear ears. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I give a quiz and only one student catches a little "Easter egg" I put in it regarding the object of worship by the small, mysterious sect known as the Pastafarians. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I am warmed on a pivotal day nationally and internationally by the celebration of the diversity of my school community on display in an assembly today. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

The talk about the film "The Green Book" leads me to learn about the historical importance of the Negro Traveller's Green Book and the way it aided many in the 1940s and 1950's. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I am sad as I learned on Monday that a friend and mentor from long ago died Sunday afternoon. Fr. Paul, just 4 years older than me, was there with me back 30 years ago when I was in high school and then college. I have deep faith that he joins other friends of mine -saints now in the fullness of Christ - as a presence still with me and all of us. ✌

I hear Jesus' words in today's gospel about how to live in community and I am struck by how I experience this twice on Sunday. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I was moved with joy and gratitude as I watched the first Spring Training game of the year and then the amazing film "Roma" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

Another year's Freshman Retreat rolls back around (listen to episode #40 for last year's) and I serve in specific way which adds at least a little bit to the day. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I missed a couple of days recording as I was sick with a bad cold. This time allows me to experience God as the Broken One who is near when we struggle and fall ill. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I am touched with gratitude and nostalgia as I hear my teen son singing in the shower. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I enjoy faith and fellowship Sunday evening and feel and hear God singing to me when I listen to a friend singing Bib Dylan's song "To Make You Feel My Love" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I have two very different parts of my day - chill in the morning and early afternoon and much hustling at the winery in the evening as it got so busy that a regular customer helped me out! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I have the day off of school but need to wait for my son during a long appointment. I work in the morning in the library and the afternoon in a coffee shop. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I write and pray a prayer today for the six types of live identified by the Ancient Greeks. And after experiencing love of my school after watching a fun competition and then having a special moment with my teen daughter, I wonder if there are even more kinds of love for which we need new words. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

My school community hears from a father who lost his daughter in a car crash caused by distracted driving. My students and I take The Maria's Message Pledge to not drive with manual, visual and/or cognitive distraction. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I go back and listen to the episodes I recorded one year ago this week and am struck by my thoughts and feelings right after the Parkland school shooting. I experience God in the remembering of those horrible days. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

My classes and I pray a prayer that I wrote to ask God to guide our leaders in compromising so the government doesn't show down again on Saturday. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support