My husband and I went to my parents’ home for the Christmas weekend, both of us praying that the dog would still be alive when we returned. For me, praying for her really meant trying to see the dog as God sees her. I tried to realize the wholeness and completeness of her as an ...
As rain falls, we walk a half-block in the dark, my concern mounting that we could encounter fallen power lines. I don’t feel safe. Traffic is metro rush hour heavy and I wonder why the heck all these people are out and about. A man directs traffic around a fallen tree blocking a...
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Recently, my morning reading took me to 2 Samuel 7 where I read that King David went to the place of worship and “sat before the Lord.” Eventually he prayed, and God responded, but I loved that, at first, he just sat there in stillness, knowing he was in the presence of the hol...
a他的学习能力很强,并且阅读速度极快,据说他能够达到一眼可以看完十行字。 His learning capability is very strong, and the reading speed is extremely quick, it is said he can achieve may look at ten lines of characters.[translate] aThanks for the prompt action and close following up. Keep go...
really, folks, for efficiency in posts like this use the comment form rather than sending email, which comes at me in torrents. One person suggested that it pointed to reading the Imitation of Christ. Interesting. Another sent something along the lines of what we came up with about the ...
Will you take the JANUARY TECH CHALLENGE with me?Kick the new year off on a new foot. Between now and the end of January, fast 3 times from technology. Start off with a few hours, or half of a day (if you’re ready for THAT-gulp), and try to build up to 2-5 days by the ...
For February, we will be praying along with Psalm 145 which is one of the most beautiful adoration/praise prayers in Scripture. Read each section out loud as a prayer declaring truth. At the end, add a few lines of adoration/praise that have been prompted in you. You may want to read...
While in purgative prayer one is mostly engaged in vocal prayer, in the illuminative way one tends to be more affective along the lines suggested by St. Therese, above. Affective prayer of this sort may best permit us to fulfill the command "always to pray and not to faint" (Lk 18:1...
But, just as we were planning for this, word reached us from our station treasurer of a message received from the home board that funds were low, and retrenchment must be carried out along all lines. To us this meant dismissing helpers, and a general curtailing of our work. We faced ...