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Just Love
“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.” – Thomas Merton Over the last…
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The Roots
– for Christy Into the soil beneath my soul, my roots reach out, trusting they will be nourished, strengthened, nurtured… where the Love I seek moves beyond the barrier of my foundation the obstruction of human family the attachment of what’s here seeking Life in the deep darkness… connection with The Spirit… my roots move…
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In the Now
“The spiritual life can only be lived in the present moment, in the now. All the great religious traditions insist upon this simple but difficult truth.” – Cynthia Bourgeault, Mystical Hope, pg. 12 The present moment. The now. That’s where I need to be if I want to live spiritually. Today. Right now as I…
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The Cocoon
It’s where I go, I must go willingly and often to renew my soul to revisit Your call… Within it are the others who are seeking ready to lift up my life to receive Thy grace… It is there I remember, embrace again that You reside in my heart my harbor of Love…
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I pray today…
I pray today… …that this side will turn, maybe just an inch and that side will welcome this side in. I pray today… …that all of them will pause, in thoughtful prayer to contemplate trusting in our means. I pray today… …that the other will look, perhaps a glimpse or half-lipped smile freeing the closed…
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Spirit of Wisdom
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. – 1 John 3:16 (NIV) Recently, I have been doing a good deal of research on Father Mychal Judge. Mychal was a Franciscan priest and served…
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God is in the Struggle
How does one fight against the struggle? i can i have it is in my nature and yours to battle discomfort disturbance confusion to turn and run to anything else all which leaves us still wanting until… the moment when we recognize God right there in the middle of it all in the sludge of…
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A Kind Face
– with gratitude for St. Francis of Assisi Grant me, God, the Grace to accept all wherever they may be on the path to You. Grant me, God, a heart like that of Your Son, that when a need arises, I may give Love. Grant me, God, a gentle soul, for what is within will…
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You Came to Me
– for Cynthia When You came to me so many years ago in that silent frozen place terror drew me quickly away without time to think the enemy turned me from You and led me back into the night the nothingness of reaching for bottles for containers for confections for men… how sad You must…
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Burning for the Light
Victor Frankl once said, “What is to give light must endure burning.” It seems somewhat paradoxical that to give light (for me, the message and love of my savior, Jesus Christ), I must feel pain (burning). Why must one experience pain in order to give love? While this made little sense to me in the…
Jessica L. Morris
The seeking is everything…
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