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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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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!
“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
through Him with Him in Him... 