Tag: Pandemic

Please pray (Week 5)

Please pray (Week 5)

We are being asked to pray for our Associates in CHRISTUS Health. As you know, they have been working for over a year in extremely difficult circumstances. Thank you for adding these requests for prayers to your daily prayers.

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2nd week of Easter

2nd week of Easter

As I arrived at my office this morning, a palm tree was being brought down. So many palms suffered tremendously from our “Ash Wednesday” freeze, here in San Antonio. I suppose many of the most hardy have survived. I know this tree, surrounded by the asphalt of our office parking lot, must be quite old. Most likely, it was planted when the Motherhouse was built in 1900, or shortly thereafter. I know nothing about palm trees .. their life expectancy in unpredictable climates, what can sabotage them, to what diseases are they susceptible … so my thoughts this morning are really about life and death, and the mystery of both.

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