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Clean Slate
How has the new year been treating you? A good friend asked me this very same question eight days into the year and it gave me pause to consider my state of being. How is the new year treating me? How am I treating the new year?
Lifting the Heavy Lid of Night
The season of Advent reminds us to light our candles and to carry it around for all to see. Not to draw attention to ourselves, but to remind others of the light of Christ that is coming into the world…
Expectations
Advent is a season of expectations. Expectation of the coming of the Messiah, the One Who is to save us. This longing for the Savior wells out from deep within us, forming our hearts to be expectant hearts…
We’re Speaking about Gratitude Again?
Can we ever tire of speaking about gratitude? Reminding ourselves of the need to have a grateful heart? To encourage the spirit of gratitude in others? Can we ever get tired of this? I don’t think so.
Gratitude Is Always “In”
If you blink, you’ll miss something that just made our world change. Think about yesterday, last week, last month, last year. Doesn’t it seem like the change around us is accelerating?
Accepting God’s Will
By Sister Mary Scholastica, O.C.D. There is a gem of a book called Into Your Hands, Father by Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen. This little book has carried me through some hard times in my own life. I found myself carrying it around and at needed moments, I’d pull out my trusty...
Friends in High Places
They sound like opening lines to a conversation any one of us may have with any number of our friends … and, in fact, they are. These are topics that I would readily broach with those I know, love, and trust
Who is the Constant In Your Life?
Once, I was teaching kindergarteners a lesson on the virtue of kindness, using a chart with the colors of the rainbow as a visual barometer for the children to see if their behavior was in relationship with Jesus.
Heart Wounded and Open
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Heart that was wounded and opened for us; opened that we may enter in. In the Anima Christi we pray: “Within your wounds hide me.” Hide me from what? For what purpose?
Letting Go
So much of our life consists of learning to let go. With or without our consent things happens. Letting go of our expectations, plans, perspectives, thoughts, feelings, memories – letting go