My Sister’s Birthday
Yes–that’s right. My sister and I have a birthday one day apart. But we are also 16 years apart. SMACK! Ouch! That was my sister hitting me for revealing her…
A Birthday Prayer
Lord, you have blessed me with more human years than you even blessed yourself withMy forty years are a mere shadow to your timeless self But in your 33 human…
Hayesmas Eve
So at our weekly staff luncheon we did a pre-birthday celebration for my birthday and the birthday hats were placed upon me head! Which one should be my new facebook…
God Moments: At a Wedding
The Second of our God Moments comes from our same source as the first, Eileen Hooper Chapoton who is from the Loyola Institute for Ministry in New Orleans. My daughter,…
Family Time in Yonkers
My sister and parents and I are spending a quick 24 hours today in Yonkers as we celebrate my sister and my birthday early. It’s the big 4-0 for me…
Today’s Inspiration: We Live on Borrowed Time
Not only is my pastor an awesome guy AND an awesome preacher… But he can obviously belt out a snappy tune too! http://feeds2.feedburner.com/GooglingGod
God Moments: Grocery Store
This week’s God Moment comes to us Via Facebook from Melissa McKerroll Francis: “I was in line at the grocery store. The woman ahead of me was buying more than…
The Legend of the Heimlich Maneuver
Today is the feast of St. Blaise which traditionally is the time to get your throats blessed. It was a great tradition in New York City and many would participate…
This Is My Body, Given For You..Try Not to Mess Up the World Now
Thinking more deeply about donating my body to science, I wonder if there’s the possibility that the doctors who use my body might learn something that leads them to do…
Would You Donate Your Body to Science?
I turned the corner on my tour of the gross anatomy lab at UB’s med school and there he was: a nude cadaver on a slab of steel in the…