Incense and Crayons

a blog about the priesthood, parenthood, and being an artist

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  • Youth Meditation: the Good News

    The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well. You… Continue reading

    Youth Meditation: the Good News
  • Youth Meditation: Do not reject, but welcome

    The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well. You… Continue reading

    Youth Meditation: Do not reject, but welcome
  • Youth Meditation: Getting mad

    The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well. You… Continue reading

    Youth Meditation: Getting mad
  • Youth Meditation: Happy Birthday St. John the Baptist!

    The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well. You… Continue reading

    Youth Meditation: Happy Birthday St. John the Baptist!
  • Youth Meditation: Nature sings about God

    The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well. You… Continue reading

    Youth Meditation: Nature sings about God
  • Youth Meditation: Do things because you love them

    The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well. You… Continue reading

    Youth Meditation: Do things because you love them
  • Youth Meditation: On wanting so desperately

    The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well.… Continue reading

    Youth Meditation: On wanting so desperately
  • Youth Meditation: I take refuge in you, O God

    The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well.… Continue reading

    Youth Meditation: I take refuge in you, O God
  • Enjoying within thankfulness

    In his book Letters to Malcom, C.S. Lewis writes about adoration. Not Eucharistic adoration practiced among some Roman Catholics, but the “experience” of “the tiny theophany” in everyday enjoyment and pleasure. The sweet air that whispers of the country from… Continue reading

    Enjoying within thankfulness
  • Trees, Tolkien, and prayer

    This morning I spent my prayer time in the forest. The winter was long, and we got record amounts of snow, so the forest path near me (which is part of a state park) was been mostly inaccessible since early… Continue reading

    Trees, Tolkien, and prayer