Category Archives: Proverbs

Let him easter in us

Posted on April 7, 2023 by R.H. (Rusty) Foerger

“Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us…” Line for Gerard Manley Hopkins epic poem ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’. Shortly after Easter last year my mentor and friend James M. Houston wrote: Hopkins captures my … Continue reading →

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The Practice of Gratitude

Posted on January 6, 2023 by R.H. (Rusty) Foerger

In his 51st letter from a hospital bed, my friend and mentor James Houston recalls a time when he was teaching at a conference of business leaders in Brazil when a question came from the audience: “to what do you … Continue reading →

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Centered on the Potter’s Wheel

Posted on November 4, 2022 by R.H. (Rusty) Foerger

“Centering, writes Mary Caroline Richards, is the act that ‘precedes all others on the potter’s wheel. The bringing of the clay into a spinning, unwobbling pivot, which will then be free to take innumerable shapes as potter and clay press … Continue reading →

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Humility and the Authentic Self

Posted on October 21, 2022 by R.H. (Rusty) Foerger

In one of James K.A. Smith’s newsletters he comments on one of the threads of Merton’s reflections that had, as he puts it, “burrowed its way into [my] psyche: his unique reflections on humility.” Below are entirely Smith’s thoughts based … Continue reading →

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A River is only a River if there is a Valley

Posted on September 30, 2022 by R.H. (Rusty) Foerger

Writing in his 100th year, my friend and mentor James M. Houston reflects on Psalm 1, as he says, “from his hospital bed.” Dear Friends; For generations, God’s people, especially in hardship, turn to the Psalms. At this moment, pandemics, … Continue reading →

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Feel the Desolation

Posted on September 9, 2022 by R.H. (Rusty) Foerger

After a Gothic army pillaged Rome in 410 A.D. a widow named Flatonia Proba and other widows fled to Carthage in North Africa where they established a religious community. Proba asked Augustine about prayer for the community. This is partially … Continue reading →

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Living with Grace

Posted on August 5, 2022 by R.H. (Rusty) Foerger

For Grace Chantiam, 2020 was supposed to be a year she would remember for the rest of her life. In an interview Grace gave to “myleapmagazine.ca“, Derek Clouthier writes: “As it turns out, it was, but not for the reasons … Continue reading →

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