Joy is the first act of divine love and a fruit of the Spirit.
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Center of the Universe
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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The Prayer of Letting Go
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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Every human person consists of both a body and soul. Just as our body needs things to survive and grow, such as oxygen, water, food, etc., so our soul needs things as well, such as faith, hope, and love. These spiritual longings point to the truth that every human person has a natural desire for God.
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The narrow path is one of humility. Our souls long to rest in their pure state as God designed. But the human condition is the struggle with the ego that shapes and adapts us to living on earth. God’s mercy so greatly wants to act within us that all we need to do is open the door.
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Smitten With Goodness 