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I’ve Chosen You For This. Don’t Lose Heart.
A note from our Lord: Daughter, I know you have a great desire to share all that you have learned, to describe all the ways I have come to you and spoken with you. It is right and normal that you have this desire. But just as I told so many people who I healed […]
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I want your heart
It’s not your wealth I want so much as your heart.Prayers for the poor and needy are powerful…For them certainly, because I hear them and I answer.I am faithful. But even more, your prayers for the poor are powerful for you, for your goodness, for the sweetness and beauty of your generous heart. Similarly, I […]
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Prepare me for You, Oh Lord
Father, You gave me your beautiful words during my prayers with You, today at Mass. Help me now to recall them, I pray, and to lift them up to Your glory. Amen. God our Father in Heaven lean close, I pray, and beckon to me that I might lift my heart to You, that it […]
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Give me a broken spirit
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Let me not despise my broken spirit, or my broken heart, oh lord. Rather, show me how to offer it to you as a sacrifice. Take my ego and my arrogance, my loss […]
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All Yours
Everything is Yours, Holy Lord.I trust You with my heart.Help me to doYour Work, withYour Words, withYour Wisdom, alongYour Way.Through all my ups and my downs letYour Will be done in and through me, Holy Lord.This day and forever.
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Waves of Grace
Against a brilliant background, there she stood. The mounds of reds and yellows, greens and oranges and purples tantalized my senses with promises of Romas and romaine, parsley and peppers, eggplant and onions. Like an angel in my mind’s eye today, her soft, strawberry blonde hair shimmered, framing her face, as light surrounded her. Her […]
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Walking with Jesus, my brother
When I first began writing “Walking With My Brother,” I didn’t know or understand Jesus. The whole endeavor was my small attempt to come to know Him, who demands my heart. Today—nearly 10 years later—this meditation from Word Among Us made me smile and rejoice. “When you do your Father’s will, you are as close […]