Today we celebrate Pentecost where the descent of the Holy Spirit is placed within our hearts. This is the energetic force that draws us to life. This living spirit guides us, and reminds us what our creator placed in our hearts, drawing us to love.
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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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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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Are we practical materialists?
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Why would God’s salvation of the human race have to include something as horrifying as crucifixion? We live in a time when the human predicament is regularly denied, explained away, or ignored. Despite the massive counter evidence from the moral disasters of the last century, we are still beguiled by the myth of progress: with just enough technical advancement, psychological insight, and personal liberation, we will solve our problems.
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This morning I spent some time envisioning a world where there were no words, no noise, only silence. What we held in our heart poured out without a word. The emotions, the joy and the suffering coming alive through action without a sound. What would be revealed?
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God knows us better than we know ourselves. In fact, he loved us into being, giving us certain gifts and talents to develop and grow in His grace.
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As we live in the Easter season, we are refreshed with overwhelming hope. The hope in knowing that we are called to something greater than what we experience on this earth. With love and humility, we bow down in gratitude in response to God’s love for us.
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We live in a world where success is often judged by worldly possessions and riches. Once our greediness gets a taste, we usually want more and more and are rarely satisfied. Our culture is addicted to comfort, distraction: bigger, better, faster. We are drawn to the sensational. We get a jolt, a buzz, it’s something to make us feel, to wake up and feel alive.
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What do you desire?
This is a question that we need to ask ourselves often. Do we desire things that are drawing us towards God and his goodness or are we being distracted and drawn away from what truly matters?
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Smitten With Goodness 