My experience, thoughts and observations drawn from my journal and notes:
Men’s Retreat, January 26-29, 2012
Our Lady of the Oaks Retreat House
Grand Coteau, Louisiana.

No explanation, no call, no goodbye: this does not seem to be what love looks like.

The Effect on Children when people stay together because of them.

Silence is a state of being quiet and it is considered a way of being gentle and wise. We need silence and quietness in many events of life.

Mind your own business? The sounds of silence are becoming increasingly deafening, dangerous, and too often – deadly!

Why is this the case?

What would you wish?

Every time you pass a cemetery by, just remember, that those lying beneath the gray graves were once individuals who passed through life’s continuum. They went through tears, friends, betrayal, rumors and enemies, had secrets, loved, indulged in spirituality and then said the last goodbye of silence. Don’t lose sight of this poignant truth.

Another of the Meditations series in which we try to find the beauty and balance of nature even in the most mundane surroundings and thus experience the de – stressing effect of becoming party of our surroundings. The landscape here has a history that is not what you might expect.

Learning to open our minds and living in the now……change our thoughts change our world-