Whenever I can, I try to compose little lists of the best things in the world.
It will take me a long time to get through them all. Fortunately, I am still young.
I have posted a new list under the Bests tab above.
The following old list of ‘blizzard bests’ is retired from the tab…
Check out American gold-medalist Shaun White:
Vodpod videos no longer available.…Nine days with the sailboat cufflinks. Still a long way from 70 degrees…
…What can we say about the Wizards? All our old homeboys are gone now. We need a fresh start of course, but this is extreme…
…Perhaps you recall that on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, when there was very little snow on the ground, the Hoyas got themselves whupped by Syracuse.
The re-match is tonight at the Verizon Center. For Lent, we are giving up losing in the Big East.
Strange, strange winter. Who can make sense of it?
The Hoyas whup Duke and Villanova. Meanwhile, they manage to lose to South Florida and Rutgers. (?!?)
But before we start second-guessing Providence (Almighty God, that is–not Providence College), let’s remember the Lord’s words to Job:
Brace yourself like a fighter.
Now it is my turn to ask questions and yours to inform me.Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations?
Who decided the dimensions of it, do you know?
What supports its pillars at their bases?
Who laid its cornerstone
when all the stars of the morning were singing with joy,
and the sons of God in chorus were chanting praise?Who pent up the sea behind closed doors
when it leapt tumultuous out of the womb,
when I wrapped it in a robe of mist
and made black clouds is swaddling bands?Have you ever in your life given orders to the morning
or sent the dawn to its post,
telling it to grasp the earth by its edges
and shake the wicked out of it?Have you ever been shown the gates of death
or met the janitors of Shadowland?Which is the way to the home of the light,
and where does the darkness live?
You could show them the way to their proper places,
or put them on the path to where they live!Has the rain a father?
Who begets the dewdrops?
What womb brings forth the ice,
and gives birth to the frost of heaven,
when the waters grow hard as stone
and the surface of the deep congeals?Have you grasped the celestial laws?
Could you make their writ run on the earth?
Can your voice carry as far as the clouds
and make the pent-up waters do your bidding?
Will lightning flashes come at your command
and answer, ‘Here we are’?
Does the hawk take flight at your advice
when he spreads his wings to travel south?
Does the eagle soar at your command
to make her eyrie in the heights?Is the Lord’s opponent willing to give in?
Has God’s critic thought up an answer? (Job 38-39)
…Please say a prayer for the repose of Monsignor Michael Farina–a kind, gracious gentleman of a priest, who lavished a lot of love on your humble servant when I was a seminarian.
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