Tag: miracle
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Please pray for our family today
Please pray for our son and his wife and baby. I just received word that our son’s wife, who is 27-weeks pregnant, has gone to the hospital with spotting. This, as most of you probably know, indicates that the baby is in some distress. Mom and baby are doing okay for now, but we have…
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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 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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Will You Come and Follow Me
This is re-blogged from Keeping Company and Teilhard de Chardin. A possible answer to my prayer request, below? Video: The Summons.
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Meditation 1 – God loves generous hearts
The Catholic Church has a pamphlet that I find tremendously comforting. It’s titled “A Meditation Before the Blessed Sacrament.” Consisting of 14 meditations, it encourages our prayers and meditations. (Your local church likely has copies available). I’m going to reflect on one meditation from this pamphlet each day for the next couple of weeks. As…
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Miracle of answered prayer
My daughter caught one of these darn bugs that are going around this winter. We get particularly concerned about her because these bugs can often trigger her asthma. So, when she called to tell me she was at Urgent Care one Sunday night, I was immediately lifting her up in prayer, asking that God strengthen…
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The miracle of feeling awestruck by God’s beauty
Being awestruck by God’s creation involves at least two miracles. The first miracle is the beauty and magnificence of God’s creation. Spiritbath, in this post “…hello dear universe,” shared the beautiful Vimeo video from Christian Mulhauser, in which he uses time lapse photography to capture the Milky Way and other scenes from the Island of…
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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,…
Walking With My Brother 