Patience is necessary. However, it is a difficult virtue because it requires us to control our emotions and passions.
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Author: Smitten With Goodness
Week Seventeen: Patience. Love
Love is patient is the first characteristic of God’s definition of love. For me, this gives me focus on how I am meant to love both myself and others. When I lack patience with myself, I’m sending negative messages to the core of my being. I’m not being loving to the creature that God created in His image.
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Looking for God’s Goodness in contemplation and prayer through A Simple Daily Practice, adapted from Rediscovering the Lost Body Connection with Christian Spirituality.
A Simple Daily Practice…
When awakening each morning ask yourself, “What in my body now most needs my loving presence?”
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Loving the one and only me, body, mind, and soul.
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What in your life needs attention at this moment? Is it your body, mind or soul? Do I turn toward or away from the pain? How I view and know God frames how I view life. My relationship with God allows me to see my true self.
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Do you distract yourself from knowing who you really are? Do you stay busy or focused on the urgent, not seeing and tending to what is important?
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Who am I? After living a lifetime, I’ve learned it’s a choice.
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Sometimes getting to know the whole of myself feels a little like coming undone.
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God’s Mercy Endures Forever, let us be His Light. As we have journeyed through Lent and an intensified Holy Week, I hope your heart is rejoicing and full of light in the fact that God’s mercy endures forever. He is risen! Alleluia! I hope your faith has been strengthened and your heart has been lovingly pruned and purified so it is bursting with love. Christ suffered greatly to grant us access to eternal life. The time is now for us to mature spiritually and Be His Light in the world.
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Looking for God’s Goodness in contemplation and prayer.
In Silence We Await. The faithful pray and meditate on the great sacrifice our Lord has made for all of us and anticipate His Resurrection from the dead-on Easter Sunday. I spend the day in the quiet, thanking Jesus for the ultimate gift that He gave to all of us on Good Friday. I try to place myself in the confusion and fear (as well as hope) that the Blessed Mother, the apostles, and the other witnesses to Jesus’ Passion undoubtedly felt on that first Holy Saturday. In doing so, I realize how fortunate I am to know how the story ends and that Jesus Christ will be rising on Sunday morning! Let’s Look for God’s Goodness in contemplation and prayer, meditating on this reflection from Every Sacred Sunday.
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