“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” [...]
“To lose faith is to stop looking. To lose faith is to decide that all you ever saw from afar was your own best dreams.” Frederick Buechner Boy, can I relate to this quote today. Do you ever get tired of praying and not getting answers? Feel like arrow prayers zoom into space, never finding [...]
This week, last year, I was in Rome with Bridge for Peace, an international healing ministry. The team consisted of Ed, Annette, Mark, Nora, my husband Wally, and I. We were there to pray for priests and religious, mainly from third-world countries. Men and women of God far away from home, studying for doctorates or [...]
Epiphany: (1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something (2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking (3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. (Miriam Webster Dictionary) Today I slept in (9:45 am!) read the Enquirer, answered e-mails, [...]
It’s dark this time of year. I awake in the dark, eat dinner in the dark, take walks in the dark. Not to mention the dark cloud that falls when I turn on the news or open the morning paper. War. Rumors of war. Biological weapons. Terrorists plotting mass destruction. Even in the beginning, men [...]
O Lord, prepare my heart for the advent of your presence! May your light pierce December’s darkness and illuminate my life. Despite winter’s chill may my home glow with the warmth of your love. In a season of giving teach me to receive. In a month of over-indulgence show me how to simplify. In the [...]
For my Advent devotionals, I am reading Wendy Wright’s The Vigil: Keeping Watch in the Season of Christ’s Coming. I like the way she intertwines her personal story with a deep study of the Scriptures. She writes, “Promise is at the heart of the season of Coming. Opening our hearts to the radical nature of [...]
The following quote from Barbara Brown Taylor’s book, Gospel Medicine, grabbed me and wrestled me into a time of prayer this morning: “…God (is) calling us to serve, certainly, but calling us first and last to stay as close as we know how to the one who has chosen us, to stay as close to [...]