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[This post includes two short videos best experienced from the Just a Thought website. Please click the link above.] Voyager1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5,1977. Its mission was to gather information about our solar system and send a message to extraterrestrials who might come in contact with the spacecraft. President Jimmy Carter sent along this message: “This is a present … Continue reading Our Message to the Universe
The dogwood tree outside my bedroom window is blossoming. When I open the drapes in the morning and look out from my second-story window, I see hundreds of small white flowers. I first noticed the buds opening on Easter morning, and my first thought was: Praise the Lord, Christ has risen. I sensed what the Jesuit poet Gerald Manley Hopkins sensed when he wrote: The … Continue reading A Thought on Prayer (by Joe N.)
Friends, I’d like to dedicate this post to one of the most skilled sailors I know: my cousin, Dennis Parker, the elder of the Moriarty clan, a friend to many, and my first hero. In the opening act of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, the King appears in a forest, disguised and carrying a prayer book. Thinking he is alone, he speaks aloud while trying to … Continue reading Smooth Seas Do Not Make Skilled Sailors
We got wind over the holidays that a number of dear friends have have had a rough go of it. One friend said it was like having the lights go out, then living in darkness with no way to turn them back on. Living in darkness may be the ultimate experience of powerlessness. I remember when such a darkness hung over me. It was June … Continue reading The Beauty of Borrowed Light