: About Me

What do you see? An 'ordinary' family posing for a photo in our son's dorm room at Benedictine College? What do we hope you see? 'Holiness'? Our family is no different than yours. You think college dorm rooms get messy? Try family relationships!

There is nothing perfect about Ted and Genine, Gabe, Zach, Abby, and Grace. This Telepak family, like yours, is pretty 'ordinary'. But in the 'messiness' of life, there is 'ordinary holiness'.

...An extraordinary God must laugh in both affection and amusement, as we continue to be amazed how all this becomes holy'! Email us at telepak@cox.net.

Don't just read the articles of this writer, Theodore Telepak! Listen to the rich imagery and poignant descriptions. The stories will be hard to forget. The words will resound within you. Simply said, these writings will speak to "what matters most" in faith, life, and relationships. You just didn't know how words could capture it this way!

The author has been married for twenty years, is father of four children, and resides in Phoenix, Arizona. He has been the Director of Vocational Rehabilitation for Gentiva Rehab Without Walls -Phoenix since 1992, and Adjunct Faculty of the Maricopa Community Colleges teaching Special Education and Education since 1999. Graduated from the Franciscan University of Steubenville with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English(Communications) and Theology in 1983, and a Master's of Arts degree in Special Educaion in 1985. Published in the Journal of Teaching Exceptional Children, Conference, broadcast media, and workshop presenter in US and Canada in Special Education / Vocational Rehabilitation, and Catholic Men's Ministry / Spirituality.

My passion is ...

Being in relationship to God, Genine my wife, Gabe, Zach, Abby and Grace my children, Individuals with special needs, Less is more and more is less, Those that have not rather than have

I know too much about ...

Nothing

My parents always told me ...

To listen to your heart

My childhood ambition ...

To be like Moses

My favorite memory ...

Climbing trees

Why I write ...

I am one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

CS Lewis, Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr, Listening to the trees who say nothing

My first job ...

Delivery newspapers for the Cleveland Press

My best moment ...

Now

My inspiration ...

Waiting and listening

Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values Life and your perceptions

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"Looking At and Looking Along" What do you see? Once the shadow had passed, sunlight came bursting through the gaping holes of the decrepit hut roof we were about to replace. Its rays reached longer than the palm tree branches I was getting ready to cut with a machete. I found myself standing there, looking not just at' the light, but along' it, to see where it would lead and to what it would illuminate. I was hot and sweaty. In the middle of a poor Mayan village, somewhere in the Yucatan, serving as a missionary, I began to understand, "Why?". I began to look' at life, and my perception o...

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