“Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey.” Pope Francis in Evangelii Gaudium
Category Archives: God
Only a Little Pencil…
“I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever He wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it. “
+ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Rising to the Challenge…
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In the much to do…in the little to do…
In the sufferings and sorrows…in the joys and laughter…
In the consolations…in the desolations…
In the can’t wait to do…in the can’t stand to do…
God has picked you!
Will you rise to the challenge?
His Grace is sufficient.
All is Grace.
Mingling…
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Make it a habit to mingle with the characters who appear in the New Testament.
Capture the flavor of those moving scenes where the Master performs works that are both divine and human, and tells us with human and divine touches, the wonderful story of His pardon for us and His enduring love for His children.
Those foretastes of Heaven are renewed today, for the Gospel is always true!
+ St. Josemaria Escriva
Streams of Creativity…
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Why is it that pain, trials, sufferings -be it emotional, physical, or spiritual- break open streams of creativity?
Could it be that the living water that seeps through the cracks of our humanity
saturates the dryness of hopelessness and brings resurrection…
again and again and again.
The current of new life erodes the deadness of discouragement and despair,
breaking down the banks of fear that have built up along the sides of the lack of peace.
Without the foundation of fear the living waters gently but forcefully flood the stagnant pool of suffering…
bringing movement and re-circulation and peace and ahhh…
oneness with Him who is living water and who re-hydrates the parched soul.
Light Filled Voyage…
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Life is like a voyage on the sea of history, often dark and stormy,
a voyage in which we watch for the stars that indicate the route.
The true stars of our life are the people who have lived good lives.
They are lights of hope.
Certainly, Jesus Christ is the true light, the sun that has risen above all the shadows of history.
But to reach Him we also need lights close by – people who shine with His light and so guide us along our way.
+ Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI
I give thanks for all the “lights of hope” in my life! Happy Feast of the Baptism of the Lord today.
Living the Punctuation Marks…
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If God’s presence is the present in the present, I must live the punctuation marks that delineate the day.
The completeness of the period…the confusion of the question…the what’s next of the comma…the connectedness of the colon…the passion of the exclamation point…the skipping ahead of the dash.
If not…
the busyness of my day only leads to run-on sentences and fragments.
His will is my WordPerfect that authors the poorly written novel of my life and edits those grammatical errors that hinder its meaning.
The present of His Presence in the punctuation of my present…
May this day I yield to the red pen and allow all that does not flow into His purposeful order be whited out.
May I live the Punctuation!
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To Be Radiant Lights…
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He wants you to become a living force for all mankind, lights shining in the world. You are to be radiant lights as you stand beside Christ, the great light, bathed in the glory of Him who is the light of heaven. You are to enjoy more and more the pure and dazzling light of the Trinity, as now you have received – though not in its fullness – a ray of its splendor, proceeding from the one God, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be glory and power for ever and ever, Amen. + St. Gregory
Be A STAR…
Blessed Epiphany!
Brimming…
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Her heart brimming with the Word of Life…
sees Him hidden in the ordinary…
and reads His love notes tucked into the day.
The story of her soul authored by His grace.
It’s the secret of her smile from within…
and her posture of Praise.
EXPECTANT…
The PRESENT of His PRESENCE in the PRESENT…
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Clay in His hand…
malleable to His “grace is sufficient”…
in the newness of “this is the day the Lord has made”…
in the newness of this “year of favor of the Lord”.
Docile to the work of the Holy Spirit…
allowing the embrace of a trust in the “plans for welfare not for woe”…
and armed with “in the joy of the Lord is my strength…
Adventure begins…the PRESENT of His PRESENCE in the PRESENT.
Happy New Year 2014!
through Him with Him in Him... 