Tag: gratitude
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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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Meditation 13 – Seeing God in others, seeing good in others
Are you resolved to avoid that occasion of sin, to give up the object which leads you astray – not to read that book, which excites your imagination; to withdraw your friendship from that person who is irreligious, and whose presence disturbs the peace of your soul? Will you go at once and be kind […]
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Meditation 11 – Gratitude awakens humility
Have you no joys to tell Me? Why not confide to Me your pleasures? Tell Me what has happened since yesterday to console you, to make you happy, to give you joy. An unexpected visit has done you good; a fear has suddenly been dispelled; you have met with unlooked-for success; you have received some […]
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Seven steps to a deeper faith
I prepared a little mission statement and annual plan for this blog for 2014. It goes like this: Mission: In 2014 I want to achieve a deeper understanding of God’s purpose for my life. Objective: To achieve this I will document here life’s little miracles as they happen to and around me. Kind of formal, […]
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God’s Lost and Found
For years I have gone to God when I’d lose stuff…keys (top contender, by far), earring-backs, books, files…nothing terribly important in the whole scheme of things, but stuff I needed at one particular moment in order for my life to continue to run smoothly. The way it started is kind of embarrassing, actually. I wasn’t […]
Walking With My Brother 