Why can’t I make a nest? Yesterday I wrote about coming advancements in the possibility of medical intervention to overcome the disabling effects of Down syndrome in the brain. This was in the context of a promise to a family with a newborn with Downs. Little did I realize… In today’s Wall Street Journal there…
Another detour on Route 21…
I saw a friend last night who’d been out of town for several weeks to be with her daughter for the birth of her first baby. Almost before I could ask her how things had gone, she said, “We have to talk.” In that instant I knew that the baby had been born with Down…
Healing
Yesterday’s gospel reading was on the healing of Peter’s mother, who was abed with a fever when Jesus visited, and he healed her on the spot. Fr. Larry thus addressed the subject of healing, surely a perplexing one for most of us, since we all have had the experience of praying–desperately–for a loved one to…
Just bein’ neighborly
We got together for some staff training this morning and Zach, RA of Barnabas House, asked Ashley, RA of next door neighbor Martha House, how she and the girls liked the pancake he and the guys had baked for them this morning. Fortunately there was a photo of this masterpiece, which I expect will assume…