If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.
September 2, 2010
Latest September 2, 2010 Quotes
There are days when we can bring before God…laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good.
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When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don’t have you.
We encounter God’s presence in moments of awe and wonder, in acts of justice and compassion, in loving relationships and in the experiences of everyday life.
Why indeed must ‘God’ be a noun? Why not a verb…the most active and dynamic of all?
Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.
Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.
You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
We must surround ourselves, in all our lives, with the fortress of community. Sometimes faith works, sometimes ritual works, but always, God is with us when we are there and care for one another.,
Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn’t give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.
