If you’ve asked for something…you just might get it. Unless…. I love my wife and my dog more than anything. So my goal is to really weed out what takes me away from them and bring me into closer relationship with her and give the dog more time to play and romp with me. Today …
Tag Archive: marriage
Jan
12
Now THAT’S Love
So my day has really been lousy today, but there were three very striking examples of love mixed in to the pain and sorrow of a day that I’d like to forget. But first the bad news, My 82 year old father tried to adjust a curtain rod by standing on a chair. The chair …
Jan
05
A Child on Marriage
My friends Marcy and Dan Zicari weighed in yesterday via facebook on the “How to Stay Married” post yesterday. You can’t make this stuff up: Marcy was reading my post and her son, Laurence comes in and looks over her shoulder. “Wow! How to stay married.” he offered. “Yes. It’s not easy, you know, Laurence.” …
Jan
04
How to Stay Married
Yesterday my wife and I went for a romantic boat ride out on the bay here in Clearwater Beach. She’s joined me for a conference and we spent a nice few days before visiting her friend Dawn and her new husband, Matt. I mention this because as we departed the boat one of the crew …
Aug
04
How to Not Be Al and Tipper Gore
Therese Borchard, whose blog on depression and mental illness is quickly becoming a must stop for me during the workday, offers this piece that asks why Al and Tipper called it quits after 40 years. “We’ve simply grown apart” is the reason the Gores give. And, even if something else did happen that the media …
Jul
24
What Happens When the Love of Your Life Marries Someone Else?
Looks like that happened to Andrew Cohen, the legal analyst of Politics Daily who writes a wedding toast that took a lot of guts to write. The great love of my life marries today and I am not the groom. I had my chance, a few years ago, but did not realize until too late …
Jul
20
A Picture is Worth…
Much more than 1000 words. It can be what provokes peace, contemplation and a deepening of love. Take a gander: After seeing this picture of me from my friend’s wedding last week, I have to say one thing: I really love that woman I married. And I know of her great love and sacrifice that …
May
18
What One Couple Loves About Each Other
Ginny Kubitz Moyer the esteemed author of Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God (St Anthony Messenger) had this cute column in San Francisco’s Archdiocesan paper on how her and her husband end their day together by naming positive attributes of the other before bed. Here’s a snip about how it …
Apr
25
Can You Hear Me Now?
Today is Good Shepherd Sunday and the gospel contains the line…”My sheep hear my voice, I know them and they know me.” Many people have chosen to take the time to use this as a day to concentrate on vocations to the priesthood, diaconate and for religious life for women. But I’d like to take …
Dec
14
Advent: All About Commitment
I recently did an evening on discernment at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee which about 40 young adult attended. I mentioned briefly that fidelity was a virtue that we can use to give ourselves a self-check on our desires. That when we think we’ve landed on the thing that we are called to be we …
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Mike Hayes is an author, commentator, Campus Minister and Spiritual Director. He founded the award winning BustedHalo.com in 2001 and wrote the book Googling God with Paulist Press in 2007. Mike is currently a Campus Minister at The University at Buffalo where he serves on the staff of St Joseph University Church. He is available for speaking engagements, retreats and personal spiritual direction.
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