Category: Prayer
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Slow Down, Pay Attention
Thank you for being here with me, Father.For allowing me to feel Your presence,To experience the warmth of Your love,To imagine You sitting here with me,A friend,A healer,A lover, present in all things. I like to tell myselfI have full faith in You, Father.Yet, why is it,That I am surprised?Unbelieving of Your gifts?Your answers to…
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Close my eyes that I might see
Holy Lord, You came to meWhen I was in labor with my daughter.I didn’t understand Your presence then.Only later did I know it was You.But there You were,Holding my hand,Helping me breathe,Helping me manage the pains of childbirth. I remember closing my eyes,Needing desperately to disregard,Shut out somehow,All the distractions in the world around me.…
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The passion of our time.
When I heard of the Supreme Court’s decision adding sexual orientation and gender identity to protected classes under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, my first reaction was: All humans deserve the opportunity to seek employment free from discrimination. Yet, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles and president of USCCB lays…
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Feeling small in isolation
I’m feeling very little in this time, Lord, as though You in a holy chastisement have sent all us squabbling children Into a sort of global time-out, Restrictions, like when I was a child and someone else was in control of my life. I gave in back then to my parents authority. I wasn’t one…
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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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The storm of our life
So many thanks to each of You who has thought to check in on us here in Nashville after the tremendous tornado that blew through our lives early Tuesday morning — super Tuesday 2020 will forever have a different meaning for us. We’re safe…now. But there are so many others — people who live just…
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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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Driving with God
“I’m glad you’re with me today, Father.” I’m always with you, my dear. I’m glad you’re aware of me today. “This imagining thing that Fr. Martin suggests…well, I guess it was St. Ignatius who earlier suggested it for understanding more about Christ…isn’t something I know much about, Father. It feels so presumptuous to imagine You…
Walking With My Brother 