I worked at a restaurant in the 1980’s where the servers were expected to wait on 25 people an hour.  They paid $ 2.34 an hour and servers had to claim $1.01 in tips an hour. It will not surprise you that this particular eating establishment is now a desert. Of course Moses had a… Read More »

  When was the last time we were tempted to ask, “Is the Lord among us or not?” It is one thing to ask the question if the Lord has not shown up before, but if the Lord has shown up in our lives (exit out of Egypt, parting the sea, bread from heaven, etc.),… Read More »

God Showed Up! Our Transfiguration Sunday scripture readings are filed with mountains. The Hebrew text (Exodus 24:23-28) speaks of a “mountain”; our Psalm (Ps. 2) speaks of a “holy hill”; the Epistle (2 Peter 1:16-21) refers to a “holy mountain” and our Gospel (Matthew 17:1-9) “a high mountain.” When we think of mountains in God’s… Read More »

Good morning Saints! Good morning sinners! Welcome November. Today we turn the calendar to a new month. We also are reminded on this first day of November of that “great cloud of witnesses” who has gone before us. When it comes to the word “Saint”, unless we live in New Orleans (football team), we probably… Read More »