Celebrating the 150th anniversary of PEO International

You’re a sorority of sisters
and a sisterhood of grace
advancing women’s hopes and goals and dreams.
Since 1869 you’ve paved
a path for doing good
providing what is needed ways and means.

So here’s to what you seek to do
that most will never know.
Your philanthropic purposes prevail.
Acknowledging your call to care
(in light of who you are),
I celebrate the charge you keep so well.

Reflections on a crane collapse in Seattle

When your world crashes down,
your feelings go numb
as you look on in horror
at all that is
that shouldn’t be.
Your heart breaks.
It beats double time
while time stands still.
And all that you can do
is sit with your grief
and cry.

When death crashes in
on those caught unaware,
you reach out
to those who loved them
who shiver in disbelief and shock.
With arms of compassion,
you embrace their pain
and comfort the hurting
and pray.

Lord, help them.
Help us.
We need you!

Responding to the terrorists attack in Sri Lanka

The irony can’t be denied.
On Easter Sunday Christians cried
as in Sri Lanka hundreds died
while celebrating life.

A day for joy gave way to grief.
The night was long. And sleep was brief.
An Easter nightmare terrorized
the faithful and their young.

The One who robbed death of its sting
who welcomes praise we freely sing
now weeps with those with broken hearts
who bury loved ones lost.

The cross still stands amid Notre Dame’s ruins

In the “City of Lights”
as the sun was setting
darkness dominated the familiar skyline
as Our Lady silently suffered.

That iconic Cathedral burned.
Her historic spire fell.
A glorious church was charred by smoke
and defaced by flames.

The faithful wept.
But not they alone.
The world grieved for what was lost.

O sacred place now wounded,
we mourn in the shadows of your twin towers.
But we are not despairing.
The message of this Holy Week inspires hope.
That which has fallen will rise again.

Death is dominated by life.
Ruin is replaced by rejoicing.
Good Friday gives way to Resurrection Sunday.

O say can you see by the dawn’s early light
the symbol of our Easter faith?
The cross still stands unscathed!
And Notre Dame remains secure.

We celebrate this artistic masterpiece
that continues to lift our heads
and focus our gaze heavenward
even as we worship the Creator
to which the Cathedral points.

God be praised!

Exposing Lori Loughlin and Admissions-gate

The big house is a Full House
if Aunt Becky goes to jail
for bribing a recruiter at SC.
The lengths that Lori Loughlin went
to get her girls enrolled
is a scandalous depraved conspiracy.

With Uncle Jesse, Becky
was a clean cut wholesome aunt
who taught Michelle and DJ right from wrong.
But the real life LA housewife
with her husband Mossimo
has been exposed for cheating all along.

Admitting to Admissions-gate
would serve this actress well.
But that is not Aunt Becky’s attitude.
Instead she’s quite defiant
much to Stephanie’s chagrin
who shakes her head and smugly says “How rude!”