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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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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.
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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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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!
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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…
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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!
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WARNING……WARNING: CHRISTMAS VIRUS
Be on the alert for symptoms of inner Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to this virus and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition of conflict in the world.
Some signs and symptoms of The Christmas Virus:
A tendency to: think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences
An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment
A loss of interest in judging other people.
Please send this warning out to all your friends. This virus can and has affected many systems. Some systems have been completely cleaned out because of it. (Author Unknown)
SPREAD THE GIFT!
As your heart, like the manger, receives anew the birth of Christ, may you give Christmas away to all who cross your path the whole year through.
“It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you… yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand. ” Mother Teresa
Abundant Blessings of His Peace and Joy to you and yours!
Merry Christmas. Joy to the World, the Lord has come.
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“It might be easy to run away to a monastery, away from the commercialization, the hectic hustle, the demanding family responsibilities of Christmas-time. Then we would have a holy Christmas. But we would forget the lesson of the Incarnation, of the enfleshing of God—the lesson that we who are followers of Jesus do not run from the secular; rather we try to transform it. It is our mission to make holy the secular aspects of Christmas just as the early Christians baptized the Christmas tree. And we do this by being holy people—kind, patient, generous, loving, laughing people—no matter how maddening is the Christmas rush…” Fr. Andrew Greeley
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