You look at me confused, haunches poised to leap upon my lap. Eager to slobber my face with kisses, and for your ears to be scratched. I stop you, arm extended, with a strongly articulated, “No!” Initially, you look confused, then hurt wondering what wrong you have committed. I smile, and pet your head, my smile conveying, “It’s alright. Not yet, but soon.” You turn, and hop up on the leather couch, turning three times, and plop into the nest you created, and, sigh.
(c) 2019, Robert Charles Wagner. All rights reserved.
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I am a composer, performer, poet, educator, spiritual director, and permanent deacon of the Catholic Church. I just recently retired after 42 years of full-time ministry in the Catholic Church. I continue to serve in the Church part-time. I have been blessed to be united in marriage to my bride, Ruth, since 1974. I am father to four wonderful adult children, and grandfather to five equally wonderful grandchildren. In my lifetime, I have received a B.A. in Music (UST), M.A. in Pastoral Studies (St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, UST), Certified Spiritual Director. Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in 1991. Composer, musician, author, poet, educator. The Gospels drive my political choices, hence, leading me toward a more liberal, other-centered politics rather than conservative politics. The great commandment of Jesus to love one another as he has loved us, as well as the criteria he gives in Matthew 25 by which we are to be judged at the end of time directs my actions and thoughts.
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