Author Archives: Galen Zook

Today is a beautiful day, with the sunlight lifting our spirits and inviting us out of our dimly lit homes, into our back gardens, walking down tree lined streets, greeting neighbors, and smiling as we see other families and individuals welcoming the sun on their faces, too. The vines grow faster than we can manageContinue reading “This is a wilderness road.”

Hope In the most obscure and sordid place, in the most hostile and harshest, in the most corrupt and nauseating places, there You do Your work. That is why Your Son descended into hell, in order to transform what IS NOT and to purify that which IS BECOMING. This is hope! – Julia Esquivel IContinue reading “The shepherd cannot run at the first sign of danger.”

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.[1] My favorite poet has a way of encapsulating a sentiment, or a lesson, or a day, or a life, into something you can hold in your mind, repeat to yourself over and over, like a mantra, until you have learned something yourself, somethingContinue reading “To this we are witnesses.”

On April 4th, 1968, just after 6pm, a man – who had made it his mission to advocate for the dignity and respect deserved but not received for multitudes of people just like him (people who were disenfranchised from their own inheritance and colonized by an empire too large to imagine failing) – was killed,Continue reading “Peace Be with You.”

When you look at your spouse with shrugged shoulders weighed down with regret and you say to a face that is broken by disappointment I’m sorry   When you visit someone in hospice and you wake her from sleep – and with eyes still closed – all she can manage to say over and overContinue reading “Good Friday and Easter Sunday 2018”