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  Wednesday – 11 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Blind Spots! Heiskell Homestead Almost 3 years ago, Ginger and I took a road trip - May 2023 -- down to Tennessee to visit our daughter and family who had moved there only a few months before. It was Ginger’s first time seeing their new home and homestead, my second!   It was also a necessity as we were driving our grandson’s car, the last tangible piece of their life back in Chicago!   While the drive was uneventful, it did take a bit of time getting used to Tyler’s car.   It lacked a lot of the bells and whistles that our car has - GPS, Bluetooth, satellite radio, connectivity to our phones, etc.   But most importantly it lacked our blind spot alert and rear-view camera!!   Wow, those little extras always make me feel like we have a guardian angel beside us in the car reminding us when danger approaches. And when you are suddenly in a car without them, you feel a bit blind! ...
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  Tuesday – 11 th Week in Ordinary Time       Gospel – Matthew 5:43-48 Measure Once? Agony Stone, Gethsemane Remember that old saying – measure twice and cut once!   Sometimes I think I keep getting it reversed – I measure once and then cut at least twice!   I made a mistake yesterday?   And I really screwed up 2 days ago!   And I can guarantee you I will mess up sometime today and even tomorrow!   News Flash!   I make mistakes, lots of them!   I stumble and fall; I mis-step and mis-judge.   I am human and I am definitely not perfect, far from it!   2 nd news flash!   I am not alone!   We are all imperfect beings! And yet today’s Gospel ends with a troubling line!   “Be perfect just as your Heavenly Father is perfect!”   Seriously?   How is that even possible for me or anyone?   I think we can manage perfection for about an hour or a day if we are lucky.   But to be perfect...
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  Monday – 11 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 5:38-42 Hit Me, Baby, One More Time Walking the Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem If we look back on our childhood, most of us will remember all the times we got into a fight, sometimes just verbal, sometimes out and out physical.   Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost.   Sometimes we came away bloodied and defeated; sometimes we gave as good as we got.   Through it all, we probably forgot why we were fighting in the first place, only the fight itself. But we do remember that, at the start, we had a choice.   We could either fight or run.   That was it; or so we thought! In today’s Gospel, we realize there really is a third option!   We hear the familiar words of Jesus to “turn the other cheek.”   I always pictured this scene as the height of cowardice, to just stand there and take it, to do nothing.   I saw this as utter passivity, cowardice.   But it’s not!   It is an act of de...
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