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an unfinished person (in an unfinished universe)
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This is the main blog of unfinishedperson, whose name is inspired by the quote by the late Dr. George Sheehan, "Each one of us is an unfinished person in an unfinished universe."
The purpose of the main blog is to serve as a portal into one unfini
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Grateful for what online friends have given me, but not necessarily for what I’ve given them
For this week’s Sleeping With Bread post (click on the badge at right for more information about the meme), I’m going to cut right to the chase. For what am I most grateful this past week? Online friends and acquaintances, namely three p...
On discernment, friends and forgetting
Thomas Merton enters the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. 1941. I saw this on a desk calendar at the hospice where I volunteer last Thursday, Dec. 10. Earlier that day, in meeting with my spiritual director, I discussed discerning whether o...
Letting the grace snow down
It’s Sunday morning and earlier this morning (much earlier) I listened to a homily on EWTN for a daily Mass for Saturday from Alabama. In the homily, the priest discussed snow falling there and how the moisture seeps into the ground similar to...
A belated Thanksgiving Midweek Review Library Loot Flashback Friday Review of Challenges post
Yep, I’m lazy and combining posts today… …from Thanksgiving to my “regularly scheduled” (ahem, if you’ve been here a while, it’s very “irregularly scheduled”) posts of Midweek Review and Flashback...
I’ve got friends in low places
For this week’s Flashback Friday, during which I try to participate in the Sleeping with Bread meme with these fine ladies, I would like to be short for what I am grateful and not so grateful this week. Not grateful The main thing, of course, f...
Sorry, I’ve been hanging out elsewhere this week
Waving… “Hey, I’m still here.” Sorry, just been hanging out elsewhere the past week: Tuesday: Humor Bloggers Fantasy Football League Blog where I was playing Tuesday Morning Quarterback. Wednesday: Unfinished Rambler where I ...
Are you giving your best?
I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Romans 12:1 Malachi 1:14, 2:13-16 and an excerpt from The City of God by St. Augustine were the rea...
Angels watching over me
Each Monday, a small group of ladies participate in the meme Sleeping with Bread, started by Mary-Lue and based off the book and on the Friday before that, I post something I call Flashback Friday (today on Sunday) as part of that. The meme is based ...
Create in me a clean heart
I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stony hearts and giving you natural ...
Being grateful for friends who tell the truth even if it hurts
Each Monday, a small group of ladies participate in the meme Sleeping with Bread, started by Mary-Lue and based off the book and on the Friday before that, I post something I call Flashback Friday (today on Saturday) as part of that. The meme is base...
Thinking on “whatever is true, whatever is honorable…”
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Philippians 4:8 ...
Thanking God for air conditioning but not rain this week
Each Monday, a small group of ladies participate in the meme Sleeping with Bread, started by Mary-Lue and based off the book and on the Friday before that, I post something I call Flashback Friday as part of that. The meme is based on the Examen as p...
Flashback Friday: Becoming an oblate
During the bombing raids of WWII, thousands of children were orphaned and left to starve. The fortunate ones were rescued and placed in refugee camps where they received food and good care. But many of these children who had lost so much could not sl...
Flashback Friday: I wanna get on the good foot
During the bombing raids of WWII, thousands of children were orphaned and left to starve. The fortunate ones were rescued and placed in refugee camps where they received food and good care. But many of these children who had lost so much could not sl...
Looking back on the last 40 years of my life
During the bombing raids of WWII, thousands of children were orphaned and left to starve. The fortunate ones were rescued and placed in refugee camps where they received food and good care. But many of these children who had lost so much could not sl...
