deliriouslove1970. The life & times of Gary and Denise Flanders. (Free and worth every penny. If you would like to compliment the editor, send to garytheflan@deliriouslove1970.com. If you would like to complain, call your mother.)

“Love [people] even in [their] sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you…

The Quigley Family Crest superimposed on the flag of Ireland. Ethnically known as a division of the ‘Black Irish’ I have been an observer and scholar of the Quigley Clan for over 50 years.

March and Lent and we march along on our spiritual journeys As winter lingers and the world looks older and duller And then the mailman brings the spring seed catalogue from Gurney’s And suddenly there is life and audacious color And excitement rivaling Times Square or Las Vegas— Blue Lake, Early Fortune, King of the…

“Poland,  country of central Europe. Poland is located at a geographic crossroads that links the forested lands of northwestern Europe and the sea lanes of the Atlantic Oceanto the fertile plains of the Eurasian frontier. Now bounded by seven nations, Poland has waxed and waned over the centuries, buffeted by the forces of regional history. In the early Middle Ages, Poland’s small principalities and townships…

“To put it another way, what I let God see and accept in me also becomes what I can then see and accept in myself, in my friends, and in everything else. This is “radical grace.” This is why it is crucial to allow God, and at least one other trusted person to see us…

A country within a country, Wales is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, and the Bristol Channel to the south: Wales. It has an ancient history with human activity for at least 29,000 years. It has a long and occasionally tense relationship with Great Britain. It is…

“The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book — a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as dearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be…

“… it is not that one thing is a miracle, but that the whole thing is a miracle!” Albert Einstein

There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. Amanda Gorman

“Joy Unspeakable erupts when you least expect it, when the burden is greatest, when the hope is gone after bullets fly. It rises on the crest of impossibility, it sways to the rhythm of steadfast hearts, and celebrates what we cannot see.” Barbara A. Holmes Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, 2nd ed.…