I lowered my eyes this morning as I began my prayers and saw this on the ground between my feet.
I immediately recalled these words from The Brothers Karamazov…
“I was there when the Word who died on the cross rose up into heaven bearing on his bosom the soul of the penitent thief.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov as it appears in
The Vitruvian Man’s Book of Hours
God speaks to us in many ways. All we must do is be attentive and listen.
A leper came to Jesus and said to him, “If you choose, you can make me clean.” Jesus smiled, stretched out his hand, and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean!” Immediately, the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.
Included in The Vitruvian Man’s Book of Hours
Saturday, Sunrise, Opening Verse
“In the presence of the holy archangels, I give thanks for all I have…”
Carmina Gadelica, prayers from the Gaelic tradition
included in The Vitruvian Man’s Book of Hours
Thursday, Sunrise, Litany
Twenty years ago, I penned the opening sentence to my first novel, The Olympian, A Tale of Ancient Hellas.
“I was 12-years-old when my father took me to my first Olympic Games.”
I do not routinely engage in social media. Several weeks ago, my daughter Stef – who does – called to tell me a person in England reached out asking if she was related to the “E.S. Kraay” who wrote The Hamsa. Understanding my ineptitude with social media, Stef explained to me how I could respond to the inquiry on ‘messenger.’ An hour or so later, I was talking to my new friend in England, Pat Easton.
Pat is a proud member of the Great British Home Chorus Friends [GBHCF], a virtual choir that evolved from the COVID lockdown in the UK last year. Continue reading A Light in the Heart of Darkness
I am pleased to announce that The Vitruvian Man’s Book of Hours is now available at Amazon and other online retailers.
A thin 80 pages and a mere 7,500 words it contains 84 ‘offerings’ distributed through three daily hours – sunrise, midday, and sunset – each day of the week. My hope is that it finds its way to nightstands, coffee tables, and other locations within arm’s reach that will encourage people to reach for it and spend a few minutes every day in spiritual thought.
It is currently available as a paperback. We have not made a decision on the eBook.
