There is a figure of speech where the tree that bears no fruit is evocative of the moral person who bears no spiritual fruit. We are all created for a mission: to be a conduit of divine grace into the world. Every single one of us has this mission.
Continue reading “Week 46. Language of Life. Mission.”We were born with a purpose, to live the truth. It’s easy to get off center from this by the tugs and demands of the world. But divine wisdom teaches us simplicity: we are called to love God and love our neighbor.
Continue reading “Week 46. Language of Life. Purpose.”Do you spend time in reflection or is every minute filled with activity, to dos, or mindlessly scrolling through social? How often do you take a good hard look at yourself? Whether it be physically in the mirror or through an inventory of your thoughts and actions?
Continue reading “Week 46. Language of Life. Always Learning.”Do you ever notice your violent thoughts and tendencies? We all have them and I know I’ve had a hard time accepting I have them.
Continue reading “Week 46. Language of Life. Grace.”
Meditation on Hope and Love in a Time of Struggle by Alice Anacheka-Nasemann.
In a world so filled with brokenness and sorrow
It would be easy to lose ourselves in never ending grief,
To be choked by our outrage
To be paralyzed by the enormity of suffering,
To feel our hearts squeeze tight with hopelessness.
Instead, this morning, let us simply breathe together as we hold our hearts open.
Breathing in as our hearts fill with compassion
Breathing out as we pray for healing in our world & in our lives.
Breathing in, opening ourselves to the transforming power of love
Breathing out as we pray for peace in our world & in our lives.
Breathing in as we hold hope in our hearts
Breathing out as we pray for justice in our world & in our lives.
May we know our strength
May we be filled with courage
May our love flow from us into this world.
Breathing in, we are the prayer
Breathing out, we are the healing
Breathing in, we are the love
Breathing out, we are the peace
Breathing in, we are the hope
Breathing out, we are the justice
May we know our strength
May we be filled with courage
May our love flow from us into this world.
Amen, blessed be, may it ever be so.
Sunday. Perspective. Makes Me Hopeful.
Monday. Greater Heights. We Can Soar.
Tuesday. Keys to Hope. Patience and persistence.
Wednesday. Attention. Signs of the Times.
Thursday. A Reminder. Doesn’t everyone deserve to have hope?
Friday. Lavishing Love. Does your life reflect what God has called you to be?
Does your life reflect what God has called you to be?
Continue reading “Week 45. Hope for Justice. Lavishing Love.”Doesn’t everyone deserve to have hope?
Continue reading “Week 45. Hope for Justice. A Reminder.”Do you find hope when you look around you reading “ the signs of the times?” We are meant to look at the world with clear eyes, to see what is happening, and be attentive. But this attention is of a particular type, it is not the attention of the scientist or the philosopher or the politician—though it can include those. It is an attention to the things of God.
Continue reading “Week 45. Hope for Justice. Attention.”Patience and persistence are two keys to hope. Today’s way of living certainly doesn’t help us cultivate these qualities. Many of us have to deal with negative thinking, codependency, fear of abandonment, shame, and guilt. We often feel weak, unsure, and powerless against such terrifying and constant forces.
Continue reading “Week 45. Hope for Justice. Keys to Hope.”Truth is the foundation of hope which helps us rise to greater heights. We can soar to a place where we see outside ourselves and notice the needs of others.
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth in a word, to know himself so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.
Pope St. John Paul II
Lord, draw me to the fullness of truth knowing the hope of justice.
Smitten With Goodness 