Posts by G K Zachary
Every Stone in its Place
The Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, officially known as the Major Papal, Patriarchal and Roman Archbasilica, Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in Lateran, Mother and Head of All Churches in Rome and in the World, or commonly known as, the Lateran Basilica or Saint John Lateran,…
Read MoreAs we forgive …
A few years ago, as a family, we had attended a healing retreat. The focus of the retreat was unforgiveness. We heard testimonies of people who had gone through immense hurts in their lives. The repeating thread line of their testimonies began in some form of hurt or abuse, followed by a life fraught with…
Read MoreBecoming Perfect
Matthew 5:48 says, “Be perfect, just as your Heavenly Father is perfect.” For most of my life, I have had a very distorted view of this injunction to perfection. Sure, in a vague, amorphous sense, I understand the need to strive for these ideals. But therein lies the rub. How does an imperfect creature strive…
Read MoreNo Mere Coincidences
As much as I did not plan this out, the pneuma seems to be driving these past few posts, in a literal sense. This post is being written in “real time.” I am going to try and pull together a few scattered thoughts and let this wind take me where it will. So, along with…
Read MoreBlowing In the Wind
During a recent business trip, the nerd in me bought the book, “Algorithms to live by,” because I was fascinated by its first chapter, titled “Optimal Stopping”. The problem statement is likely familiar to anyone who has ever taken a road trip. It goes something like this … imagine yourself on such a road trip…
Read MoreA Butterfly Flaps Its Wings
With a largesse of poetic license, the mathematician Edward Norton Lorenz presented the metaphorical example of a distant butterfly flapping its tiny wings, weeks earlier in Brazil, leading to the formation of a tornado, weeks later, in Texas. The Butterfly Effect has come to mean that in a complex system, a small change can have…
Read MoreThe Cure for Confusion
I read the dystopian, science-fiction novel, “Lord of the World,” by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson, about the Anti-Christ many years ago. Given the times, I think it is time to give it another read. Much has been written about this somewhat unknown work of fiction. But then, is it really fiction? I honestly cannot remember…
Read MoreAnswering Prayers
Here is a survey with a single question in it. When you pray earnestly and intensely, from your heart, do you find that your trials usually increase first, before God answers your prayers “in the way He knows best.” That has been my experience. If I ask for patience, he answers my prayers. Guess how?…
Read MoreComposing Arias
In Rom 7:15, St Paul says, “For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.” I have an intimate understanding of what he means and for far too long I have been focused inward on my defects, my weaknesses, and my habitual sins with which I return to the confessional.…
Read MoreHow to Travel in Space …
I have always been fascinated by the fact that there is not an up or down in space. What does looking downward or upward mean when floating in deep, dark, and empty space? To orient oneself, one would have to move toward a fixed and lighted object in space. I am reminded of this when…
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