The days grow longer yet time stands still as we walk along this foreign road with striking landscape. Overwhelming is the mixture of unknown terrain and raw beauty presented to us at each step. Is this the sacred ground, where…

The night shift comes in at seven at night staying a twelve hour shift. They walk hand-and-hand with heart beats, under a dark sky where people sleep and their ministry aids healing silently often without notice. When most of the…

Still Life.

                    Many of you have asked how my mother is fairing? Let me tell you a story… Years ago when I had cancer I took my chemotherapy treatments on the weekends. After the treatment…

My father prayed his rosary. As the beads went around his hand I drifted back to a time when I was five years old- I am in bed with my Ava (grandmother in Portuguese,) she is saying the rosary the…

Praying without words, praying in the middle of the night, praying after witnessing death upon death, praying while holding your hand and hearing you cry out, "Help me."  Praying through fear- Praying for an easy off button- Praying as I…