Category: Peace
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In this time, send us Your Peace
Good morning Father. As with the whole of the last week, You have blessed us here with clear skies and warm weather. These blessings have been appreciated by everyone in our community and all our neighbors who are clearing and cleaning up debris, recovering after the treacherous tornadoes that attacked our area. So much devastation.…
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When I’m feeling restless and dissatisfied
What should I do, Holy Lord? How should I be, when I’m feeling restless and dissatisfied? 1. Turn around, retrace your steps, figure out where you lost your way, where you lost sight of My love for you.2. If you search and search to no avail, do as Mary and Joseph did when they lost…
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Love You. Trust You. Look to You. Rely on You.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Good afternoon, Father. Thank You for this beautiful day that You’ve given us in Your mercy and Your delight. My daughter continues to be sad about her favorite pet’s and other’s recent deaths in her life and she’s still suffering from…
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Impeachment anxiety
Thank You, Lord, for being here with me — waiting for me to be here, too — as I come to You. The chaos and cacophony of our time — so troubled, so troubling — so wearying, so worrisome — sends me into flurries of activity. As the storms rage around me, little blasts of…
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Reclining at table
Jesus, we’re told, often “reclined at table,” with his disciples and with others. I wonder, do I ever ‘recline’ in the fullness of what this word might mean applied to Christ? When I imagine Christ reclining, I see Him vulnerable, open, receptive, comfortable, resting. His feet are not under Him bearing the weight of His…
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Reclining at table
Jesus, we’re told, often “reclined at table,” with his disciples and with others. I wonder, do I ever ‘recline’ in the fullness of what this word might mean applied to Christ? When I imagine Christ reclining, I see Him vulnerable, open, receptive, comfortable, resting. His feet are not under Him bearing the weight of His…
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Be a FROG – Fully Rely On God
Merton speaks today of “paradox”…of wisdom manifest and yet hidden. He says The words God utters are words full of silence, and they are bait to draw us into silence…If we hide the precepts of God’s wisdom in our heart — precepts of humility, meekness, charity, renunciation, faith, prayer — they themselves will hide us…
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Peace Within, Peace Without
Finding our own selves — the unique and perfect selves that Our Father intended us to be — is necessary before we can participate successfully in community or in relationship with others. Merton says, in his meditation for Wednesday of the first week of Lent, that: A man who is not at peace with himself…
Walking With My Brother 