Category: Gratitude
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All that I am is Yours
Born into dysfunctionand diseaseand disinformation,I entered blindand lameand dumbTo Your will and to Your perfect love. Oh Lord, I didn’t know You. I didn’t know how to search for YouOr what to look for. I didn’t know who to ask,Nor even the right questionsTo learn about You. Crippled by my ignoranceVulnerable in my loneliness,I leaned…
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Divine anticipation
That feeling. That sense of excitement. Of an inexplicable, almost physical knowingness. Signaling something momentous is about to happen. Something extraordinary. I have naught to do but wait In the full incredulous knowledge that You are at work and About to reveal Yourself In my life, In the world, In Your perfect answer to prayer.…
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Answered prayer
A while back, I prayed for Your guidance, Father, on how to share my faith — how to evangelize, even though that seems WAY too big a word for what I think I’m capable of. Not long after, You answered me through a daily meditation published in Word Among Us magazine. You knew I read…
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Gratitude
I was filled with an overwhelming sense of gratitude yesterday, as I first knelt at church in preparation for our weekly Mass — that place our Lord has made for us to gather together to worship Him. Our church is a magnificent structure; the oldest in our town. You can almost feel the history of…
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Jar Gathering
Originally posted on Lessons by Heart: In 2 Kings 4 is a fascinating narrative about a widow and her sons. With her husband gone, the bills were due and the collectors were coming to take her sons as payment for debt. She went to Elisha and asked for his help. “What do you have in…
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Prayer in the Calm Times
An excellent (and for me, timely) piece from Becky Eldredge via Prayer in the Calm Times at dotMagis. Here’s just a snip: First and foremost, we keep showing up to prayer and to our time with God. Second, I often find, it is helpful to lean on a prayer tool that can help us name…
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Meditation 13 – Seeing God in others, seeing good in others
Are you resolved to avoid that occasion of sin, to give up the object which leads you astray – not to read that book, which excites your imagination; to withdraw your friendship from that person who is irreligious, and whose presence disturbs the peace of your soul? Will you go at once and be kind…
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Meditation 11 – Gratitude awakens humility
Have you no joys to tell Me? Why not confide to Me your pleasures? Tell Me what has happened since yesterday to console you, to make you happy, to give you joy. An unexpected visit has done you good; a fear has suddenly been dispelled; you have met with unlooked-for success; you have received some…
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Meditation 10 – Make me worthy to be called a friend
Are there about you friends who seem less kind than formerly, who neglect you through indifference or forgetfulness, without your having consciously done anything to wound them? Pray for them, and I will restore them to you, if their companionship is good for you. For me this might just as easily read, ‘Are there about…
Walking With My Brother 