Rose D
The Problem With Miracles
The hedonic treadmill or hedonic adaptation is an idea that all of us have a baseline level of happiness, and when negative or positive...
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Spiritual Director/ Companion
"We're all just walking each other home"-Ram Dass
Rose D
- Aug 16
- 2 min
Taking your time with Bread
If you’ve ever made a yeast bread you know the multitude of ways the process can go wrong. It’s not something you can mix up quickly and...
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Rose D
- Jul 2
- 2 min
Two For the Road
The first time I went to Paris and saw the Eiffel tower, I don’t remember it, but I have pictures from when I was six. The 2nd time I was...
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Rose D
- May 13
- 2 min
Do you Have a Job, a Career or a Vocation?
My favorite comedian, Chris Rock, said, “When you have a career there’s not enough time in the day, when you have a job there is too much...
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Rose D
- Apr 12
- 2 min
Exploring the Road to Emmaus: The Challenges of our own Transformation
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041424.cfm Today on the 3rd Sunday of Easter we hear what happens after two disciples return to...
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Rose D
- Mar 8
- 2 min
Rule Followers: Are You Missing the Point?
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021124.cfm March 10,2024 During the pandemic, my work transitioned from downtown Nashville to home...
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Rose D
- Feb 8
- 2 min
How do you spend your time?
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021124.cfm A couple of weeks ago I reconnected with my friend Brian, as he had recommended the...
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Rose D
- Jan 5
- 2 min
Hearing the Call
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/011424.cfm January 14th readings Some of the more interesting people I’ve met in my life are the...
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Rose D
- Nov 29, 2023
- 2 min
A Voice Crying Out
It’s Christmas time, a mad rush that feels like it starts the day after Halloween. As soon as Halloween is over, the days seem to fly by...
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Rose D
- Nov 2, 2023
- 2 min
Waiting in Line
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/25?1 I remember the moment I realized I no longer would have to wait or be bored. It was 2009 and...
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Rose D
- Sep 21, 2023
- 2 min
The Heart Knows (Matthew 21:33-43)
“Why didn’t I show up at the hospital sooner; it was so obvious he was dying. Why didn’t I go then? Why did I wait?”, a friend asked me...
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Rose D
- Sep 1, 2023
- 2 min
Time for some humble pie
While most of the explanations about today’s Gospel (Matthew 18:15-20) focus on the person who was wronged, I was more drawn to the...
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Rose D
- Aug 4, 2023
- 2 min
Friends along the journey
There once was a man who suffered a great tragedy in his life. His life as he had known it disappeared, and he was thrust into a new...
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Rose D
- Jun 27, 2023
- 2 min
Simple Faith
In the last 5 years of my Dad’s life he had a caretaker named Sonny. Sonny never finished high school, and so he worked odd jobs and...
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Rose D
- May 26, 2023
- 2 min
Choosing a relationship
John 6:51-58 I’ve been vegetarian off and on for about a decade. For the most part my dietary choices rarely come up in conversation, and...
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Rose D
- Mar 29, 2023
- 2 min
Craig in Spanish Class
February 12,2023 Matthew 5:17-37 When I was in college I honestly took Spanish 101 for the fun of it. Meanwhile Craig, the young man...
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Rose D
- Mar 29, 2023
- 2 min
Easter Sunday in Nashville
It is Easter once again, and yet this year it is especially difficult to say ‘Happy Easter’ after the recent Covenant School shooting. On...
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Rose D
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
John the Baptist
December 12,2022 Matthew 2:1-12 What did you go out to the desert to see? What would pull someone from their everyday life of work and...
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Rose D
- Nov 13, 2022
- 2 min
It all ends the same way
November 13,2022 Luke 21:5-19 “All that you see here-- the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that...
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Rose D
- Oct 9, 2022
- 2 min
Fatherly Advice
October 9,2022 Luke 17:11-19 There are certain pieces of advice my father doled out that I continue to remember. Some more useful than...
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