A Blog!
My wife, Phoebe has been posting on her blog for some time - it seemed like time for me to catch up. I envision this blog mostly as a repository for recordings and, perhaps, videos of homilies that I have delivered here and there. From time to time, other reflections may join them.
The title - “Surprised by Joy” - comes from a Wordsworth poem (although many of us associate it with C.S. Lewis, who borrowed it for an autobiography). It speaks deeply to love, loss, and faith:
Surprised by joy — impatient as the WindI turned to share the transport — Oh! with whomBut Thee, deep buried in the silent tomb,That spot which no vicissitude can find?Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind —But how could I forget thee? Through what power,Even for the least division of an hour,Have I been so beguiled as to be blindTo my most grievous loss?—That thought’s returnWas the worst pang that sorrow ever bore,Save one, one only, when I stood forlorn,Knowing my heart’s best treasure was no more;That neither present time, nor years unbornCould to my sight that heavenly face restore. 
