Sometimes, a heartfelt “thanks” is all it takes. Need something quick and to the point? Here are a few thank you greetings for cards that keep things short, sweet and meaningful: You’re simply the best. Thank you so much! Thanks! What you did was truly amazing. ...
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death ...
The weight is lifted from your heart and rests upon the lids of your eyes. Sleep finds its way back into your bed … and you dream of waking up to a new day … a day when you can see in someone else what the ancestors saw in you. ...
Those intimacies of the body. A friend of mine used to place his own hand on his cheek in memory of someone else who used to do that. Maybe you hug a pillow. Maybe you sit in an enclosed chair because of the containment it gives, or you play a voice note over and over. Jane M...
(I don’t quite remember), I prayed and pleaded with God to either make the nightmares stop or to make it so I wouldn’t remember my dreams anymore. Since that prayer maybe 30 years ago, I remember exactly four dreams; three of them are nightmares. This is the one that has stuck ...
knowing the violets and the white blossoms won’t last. A yearning to keep them for as long as I can, to be in the moment, and then, to see them again. I long to see them again, even as I am seeing them in the present. It’s like a prayer to be gifted that time…one more...
I started praying the St. Francis Prayer about nine months ago, using a great meditation tape by a man named Andrew Harvey. Taking each line of the prayer and meditating deeply on each word, then applying each line to my particular situation or frame of mind at that moment, provides me ...
perhaps my ability to do so is linked to how every bite i take is accompanied by prayer. every sip of water is recognized as a blessing. and that’s an extension of how everything i do throughout the day is now experienced through the lens of what i see happening in gaza. of what...
Meditation has been a practice that is historically been minimized in the Christian Church, I think that it has been somewhat conflated with prayer. I understand that and certainly both can take both forms. Prayer to me is more thought of in terms of these are the things that I really want...
the short order V and almost the following circle. Here the pack caught me as I retraced steps and Just Coming found trail through the ravine and out the other side. Most of the way home was good running and a great circle to follow in the amphitheater of the BanPong lodge. Another ...