Do you listen to your heart – when He’s calling for you? If you listen to your heart, there’s nothing else you can do.
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Tag: Perspective
Beyond The Surface
Recently, when I was talking with a friend and asked how she would like to grow in her spiritual life this year, she answered that she would like to see more fruits of the spirit in her life, like patience. We find growth in our spiritual life through the fruits that we produce.
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Every day we are presented with clear choices: evil or good, life or destruction. Therein lies the spiritual battle.
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You raise me up and heal me. You protect my soul and restore me to life. For this I cannot be silent, I will thank you always.
Continue reading “Connected To The Source”Seeking Wisdom
The practice of Lectio Divina allows us to discover what God’s passages in the Bible mean for each of us personally. I’m slowly working my way through the Gospel of Matthew, which is rich with wisdom. When I “Ask” (my word of the year), I usually find an answer during my time in the Word or holy reading.
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“Let us thank the Lord who guides his people towards full communion with faithfulness and patience, and let us ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten us and sustain us with his gifts,”
Continue reading “Sustained By The Spirit”Living The Mystery
As humans, we want certainty. It’s part of our very nature. Most of us don’t like change but change is necessary for growth. As a result, we lose our sense of mystery. When we lose our sense of mystery, this sucks the very life out of us.
Continue reading “Living The Mystery”Staying Close To What Matters
We are called to decrease, allowing Him to increase. I’ve found that there is little I can do to make this happen except to surrender, stay close to Jesus’ scripture and prayer. This is truly what matters in life.
Continue reading “Staying Close To What Matters”Made for Freedom
We are made for freedom. God’s omnipotence and omniscience respects our right to choose. In the core of our being we remain free to accept or reject God’s action in our lives—and to accept or reject it more or less intensely. God wants us to accept him with all our ‘heart, soul, mind, and strength’—in other words, as intensely as possible.
Continue reading “Made for Freedom”Seeing Miracles
How often do you take notice of what God is doing in the world? Do you acknowledge the possibility that God is healing and transforming peoples’ lives? Let’s stand in awe of all these miracles before us in the lives of those around us.
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Smitten With Goodness 