I was next to the plover nesting area at Stehli Beach in Bayville, N.Y. today.  The plover is like a sandpiper, a beautiful beach bird that the Town of Oyster Bay is trying to protect.  It is a fulfillment of one of humankind’s duties to take care of the wonderful world God has given us lest we destroy it.

We have a responsibility, and that comes from realizing that the Earth and its plenitude are limited, and we humans can destroy it for our posterity.  We don’t want to do that, anymore than we want to harm our present inhabitants.  (God forgive the Russians.)  As is typically human, we are not doing so well at that.

Say a prayer for all good human endeavors.

Years ago I tutored a young lady who either because she liked me or because she couldn’t stand me, took to calling me by telephone at all hours of daylight.  She had a sense of appropriateness, because she never called me at night.  I moved to see my brother in California, because it was causing marital problems.

When I returned, the problem had resolved itself and as I later found out, she had grown up to be a responsible parent.  I had prayed for something like that to happen, and I thanked the Holy Spirit for what was to me a wonder of mind development.

I still get crank calls, but I thank the Lord that one was resolved.

I recently saw a color picture (fiery oranges, icy blues, dark background) of a spiral galaxy, light years away to be seen as a whole.  That is a wonder of the universe, and despite my eighty-eight years, makes me want to take up Jesus’ offer of eternal life.  There’s so much to be seen and experienced.  Each of those orange dots in the galaxy is a sun with its own planets, its own plants and faunae.

Even here on Earth are people, strange, some of them, good and evil, some who’d blow me up, like Putin, because of a selfish inclination.  But he can’t get at my core, my soul.  We are all here, different, unique.  Some are here as marvels, some as piranhas, all as wonders.

Here’s to Creation and its extraordinariness.

“No society has ever survived, or will ever survive, without morality, and no morality has ever survived without a transcendent source.”  Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College.  Thank God I sent my youngest son to Boston College.  He got an education that I could approve of.

When you acknowledge the ultimate source, you acknowledge what I have worked all my life to know with conviction.  There is a point in life where you  cannot keep an open mind, but have to make a decision.

I note that when they had 300,000 refugees from the slaughter in Cambodia, all of them Buddhists, there were no Buddhist or Hindu or Moslem people taking care of them, only Christian missionaries.

“Christians do not believe that God is dumbly ‘out there,’ like a mountain waiting to be climbed by various religious searchers. On the contrary, God, like the hound of heaven in Francis Thompson’s poem, comes relentlessly searching after us.”  That is a quote from Bishop Barron’s commentary on the gospel of Wed., April 27, 2022 from St. John.

Have you noticed how what happens to you adds up to someone looking for you?  Things fall into place in God’s favor?  Believe, just believe.  There’s a way to escape, but who wants that?  Who wants oblivion, death, the end?  I don’t, and I don’t mind telling you.