The first step of the spiritual life is humility, a concept most of us have difficulty understanding. True humility is seeing the world as it really is and not how we wish it to be. It means coming to understand the true center of the universe, and it is not me.
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Humility is the way to meaningful connection. We experience a wonderful transformation in our attitude each time we, with God’s help, suppress our ego and ask for God’s blessings on someone we envy, fear, worry about or simply don’t like. Any action we take out of genuine concern for someone else’s well-being will heighten our own – many times over.
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A person must believe in something in order to know anything about God. Do you seek to understand in order to believe or do you believe in order to understand? In this Easter season, we just witnessed belief and understanding in the Passion.
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For most of us, it’s hard to let go of the people we love. We want the best for them and we’ve spent years trying to coach them. We’ve worried over their plights and relished their successes. We wonder how that can be wrong.
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As we start each day getting ready to go out in the world, what interior attitudes do you take out of the drawer and put on? Do you put on the right shoes to walk the path of Christ to withstand the journey?
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We live in a world where we find uncertainty around most every corner we turn. Even with faith and a firm foundation, it can be a dark and depressing place. For those who struggle with mental illness, a thread of hope can be the difference between life and death.
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As we celebrate the mothers in our life, we traditionally think of the women who have given birth or those who have adopted children. But today let’s also celebrate the mothers who have lost a child and who carry that burden, the ones who live in hope to one day have a child, and to those mothers who have given up a child for adoption. Let’s also hold close, in prayer the women, who have made the decision to end a life. The bonds of motherhood are never severed despite what we justify and try to normalize.
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Rachel in the Book of Jeremiah shows us how to lament, how to cry out to God. We must learn to pray about the things that deeply disturb us. The prophet Jeremiah writes of Rachel’s lamenting “voice in Ramah” that can only weep at the world’s suffering.
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Recently I was reading about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his example of lament. He was an amazing person who knew how to fight justly, with diligence, faith, and hope. We need more of us like him in our world today and we can start by learning how to lament.
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Smitten With Goodness 