Isn’t life to be a verb?…
Do you hide from the negative?…From the chaotic, messy of life?
Engage the world with the unique gift of You…
That one of a kind fingerprint of you can help to hold down the noisy negatives…
Engage the world with the unique gift of You…
The world needs you…
Ready to move?…
Ready…Set…Go!
“The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.” Edith Stein
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It seems particularly fitting that my last post was the first week of Lent and I am resuming the first week of Advent. This journey of the heart, as of late, has taken me through an intensive internship and onward to a second, mid-life career as a licensed counselor. My blog and all my loyal readers have been in my thoughts and in my prayers in my absence, and I anticipated the time when I could return to regular posts. I pondered changing the name of the blog to “The Beauty in the Becoming” for that is the profound discovery I am making as I meet with my clients. But “Through Him With Him In Him” will always be home, for it is only through Him with Him and in Him that we discover the beauty in the becoming. I will resume posting and am extending anew an invitation to join me in our combined journeys of the heart through Him with Him and in Him as we each discover the beauty of our becoming.
From the Heart of J
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http://www.lifelinesmobile.org/blog/
I think you might enjoy my recent post “Fog…Loneliness…and the Man in the Moon”. And if it moves you, please join the Christmas Challenge!
The desert…
The place of encounter…
Inner wrestling with Truth resplendent…
Stripped of the color of everyday…
The starkness…the silence…the heat…
The sand storm of purification in the rending of the heart…
Brings an oasis of grace…peace unshakeable…spirit renewed.
“Even now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God.” Joel 2:12-13
Blessings on your Lent. May your journey in the desert bring you ever deeper into the Heart of Jesus.
In loving your neighbor and caring for him…
You are on a journey.
Where are you traveling if not to the Lord God, to Him whom we should love with our whole heart, our whole soul, our whole mind?
We have not yet reached His presence…
But we have our neighbor at our side.
Support, then, this companion of your pilgrimage if you want to come into the presence of the one with whom you desire to remain forever. + St. Augustine
“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
“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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
through Him with Him in Him... 