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I’ve Chosen You For This. Don’t Lose Heart.
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 during my time with your…
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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…
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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…
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Walk with Me, He said
And He said, “Take time for yourself. Time for yourself is time for us, for I am always with you, waiting to share my love, my truth, my beauty with you. Let me teach you my ways, for through them is your path to joy and true happiness.”
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Remembering Pope St. John Paul II
Our Catholic Writers group leader gave us a writing prompt recently, asking us to write something about Pope St. John Paul II. I thought to share it here for this Pentecost Sunday. I realize that while having many impressions of this saint of our time, I have few specific insights. I was an adult and…
Walking With My Brother
A gift of joy, a prayer of gratitude, a blessing from Our Father
Walking With My Brother 