Category: Walking in the Way
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Life is very, very good. Life with God in charge is….heavenly.
It has been so long since I’ve written substantively here…so long since we’ve talked…that it’s hard to know where to start. And, isn’t this always the way where there’s separation, disconnection, distance? We lose our place. We miss important events in one anothers’ lives. We fall out of touch. The “project,” I’ll call it, was […]
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‘In the midst of the thicket,’ we’ve not necessarily lost our way. Let our friends reassure us.
These are the two take-aways for me from In gratitude to friends, Mags Blackie, most recent post. This message is particularly comforting to me just now. My interior life, this blog are being sorely challenged just now and for the foreseeable future, as life has seemed to intervene with priorities that can’t be set aside. […]
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Excel Workbooks and Prayerful Computing – You Be The Judge
Prayer for me has always been a struggle. I guess I’m not unusual. Like so many of us, I either fall asleep or my mind wanders off in a million different directions. And later, I seldom remember much. What Works Is Better Than What Doesn’t…Who Knew? When I first read of Ignatian prayer as described […]
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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… -
The power of speaking truth
From Stand Firm | Steve Brown: On the Importance of Speaking Truth in a Hostile Culture. When truth is spoken one doesn’t use the power; one observes it. This is a great description of the power of truth to accomplish the purposes of God:
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God Is Speaking to Us
What’s God saying to you today? Great post from dotMagis blog: Read more here: God Is Speaking to Us.
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Abbey of Gethsemane
My husband and I are preparing to visit the Abbey of Gethsemane in Trappist, KY. Trappist monk, Thomas Merton (most famously) and many others have labored here to create a community devoted to God’s glory. In their words “The Abbey is a monastery in the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO), part […]
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Five Steps for Walking in the Way
As I was reflecting on the fourteenth and last meditation before the Blessed Sacrament, I was wondering what would come next in this journey of ‘walking with my brother.’ So many are already writing so many good blogs on faith and on finding and following God’s way for us. I stopped to question what contribution […]
Walking With My Brother 