Heaven all around us

"Heaven" seems to be all around us this first half of October. Where you ask? Places like these:

* the people of Erie are being so generous to our Emmaus Soup Kitchen after the fire that brought considerable damage to the kitchen 2 weeks ago;

* here is the environment for liturgy this weekend--such artists in our midst:

* the temps Sunday reached 70--a slight miracle for this October date. Here's a seemingly ordinary scene, but the berries on a single stock, growing in and out of the wire fence, right on the shore of the lake, made a special shot, I thought: nature shining amidst the utilitarian needs of humans;

I guess it's all a matter of seeing what's right around us.