It is too easy, and common, for us to think that our way is the only way, or the best way.When someone does or thinks something that is different we question and at times we become condescending.Since our way is the only way the approach that God wants us to take presents a crisis of …
“The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility” – Pope John Paul II
Lord, may everything I do begin with your inspiration, continue with your help, and reach perfection with your guidance.
We know that each of our gifts says something about the God who gave them and that taken all together they help open our minds to God’s overwhelming generosity and to God’s plans for us. Count your gifts. Count your blessings. Be grateful for them and spend the rest of the day happy.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me
God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-discipline.
Sometimes it feels that the Lord is right beside us and other times that he is out on foreign business. Pray, hit your knees, believe even when you feel like you are getting nothing out of it. The fruits of faith are far more that what you currently feel.
Lord, strengthen my will to choose the path of humble service that will overcome my own selfishness. Make my stongest desire in life to serve rather than be served.
We want to know what it’s all about,where our life should be going,and what the ending point is. Life is short and it is lived only once. The conflict therein, is to determine what our time will be used for.Use time for good and good things will happen.Use time for bad and good things will …
