Larry James' Urban Daily

Another poem from a good friend from Father Michel Quoist.  The Subway The last ones squeeze in, The door rolls shut. The subway ...

How to Live How should one live? Live Welcoming to all. Mechtild of Magdeburg

Advent tensions. . . reading the Gospels A "virgin birth"                                       A teenage mom Emmanuel (God...

What Life Is About No matter how varied and rich our experiences, how honored we’ve been, how great our achievements, we will have ...

If anyone calls me Tell them I'm out. Out of patience Out of line Out of my element Out of my mind Out in the street Preparin...

Welcome Something New To offer hospitality to a stranger is to welcome something new, unfamiliar and unknown into our life-world…. St...

The "native Texas" plant (read here "weed") in full bloom appeared on our makeshift communion table/altar at Church at...

God of many names and of all people, We pause to reflect in gratitude for the gift of, As our very poor neighbor have taught us, "An...

The Same As We Are He whom we look down upon, whom we cannot bear to see, the very sight of whom causes us to vomit, is the same as...

Where Is God Now? The SS hung two Jewish men and a boy before the assembled inhabitants of the camp. The men died quickly but the dea...

Death puts on all kinds of clothes For a hungry child, an empty stomach, a tomb A no-job father finds Death in idle hopelessness A mothe...

Hope or Optimism Hope is not merely the optimistic view that somehow everything will turn out all right in the end if everyone just d...

Hope in the Depths If you find hope in the ground of history, you are united with the great prophets who were able to look into the...

    Who Can Be Trusted? A Translation of Psalm 15   Lord, who can be trusted with power, and ...