Pull Your Weight

Life has brought a lot of changes for me over the last year. This time last year I was a Green Beret, deployed with my

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Being Old

Recently I helped move my wife’s grandma into her new assisted living facility. It is a nice place, and the folks who live there seem

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Ryan Kraeger

Keys

I know a man, a very good and even holy man, whom I love dearly. This man has a curious and unassailable certainty that if

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Ryan Kraeger

Meditation

O Jesus, dwelling before me in the form and likeness of bread; containing your uncontainable infinity with the confines of a tiny wafer, which rests

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Ryan Kraeger

The White Rosary

Your appearance disturbs me, you should not be, (fourteen years old and 5 foot 2) so light; barely into triple digit weight. You should not

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Art
Ryan Kraeger

Busy Mystic

I turn away with an ineffable sense of loss, From the overwhelming presence of the thunderous Dove To the silence of Monday morning push and

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Spirituality
Ryan Kraeger

Two Rivers

I had seen General Santos City from the air before, but one sees things differently from a fixed wing aircraft than from a helicopter. The

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Catholic Education
Ryan Kraeger

If You Let Them, They Will Build

I recently read an article about childhood and play and the increasingly all pervasive place of school in the lives of children. School work which

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With the Point of a Nail

I walked through the yard where they were collecting the bodies of those killed by the typhoon. They bring them in on trucks, collecting them

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The Necessity of Frivolity

One of the things that I often ponder is the relationship between the Christian and wealth. That is, how much wealth should I accumulate, how

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Inward Eyes

I tend to be a very introspective individual. My spiritual life consists largely in self-examination, and used to be even more so. I would look

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