Tag: fear
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Compassion
For years, I’ve awakened at 3 and 4 and 5 in the morning, no matter when I go to sleep. I often struggle to get back to sleep. In recent months I find that this is a most precious time in my day. It’s a time of quiet and an almost holy darkness. For even…
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My Enemy, My Love
This article from John Martens writing in America Magazine is an answer to a recent prayer. In his discussion of loving our enemies, he concludes: It is this desire (for perfect love), grounded in the longing to be holy as God is holy, that allows us to rise above our feelings for vengeance, feelings which…
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7 Steps For Sharing Our Decisions With God
Becky Eldredge over at the dotMagis blog for Ignatian Spirituality wrote a few months back of her experience in deciding between two possible places for her and her husband to move to and make their new home. For the past year, my husband and I have been discerning our future steps after my husband’s graduate…
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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…
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Meditation 9 – What we ask in faith, God provides
Do you dread something painful? Is there in your soul a vague fear, which seems unreasonable, and yet torments you? Trust fully in My providence. I am here, I see everything; I will not leave you. I’m such a weenie! I’m still concerned about that dinner party. It’s tomorrow night and it has me losing…
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Meditation 8 – Forgive, forget, move on, be blessed
Have you nothing to annoy you? My child, tell Me your annoyances, with every detail. Who has pained you? Who has wounded your self-love? Who has treated you contemptuously? Tell Me all, and then say that you forgive and forget; and I will give you My blessing. We’ve just rounded the half-way mark in our…
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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 