Tag: courage
Invisible people
I have talked with people, who tell me that they often feel taken for granted by pretty much everyone. They are nice, do their jobs perfectly and are always available when others are in need. Often making great sacrifices in order to do so, yet they feel unappreciated. I had a talk with a woman… Read More ›
A wall
Sometimes life takes on the texture of a low grade horror movie. With pain lurking deep below, felt, but numb; because of the depth from which it flows. Below, even deeper than this pain, seeking to crawl higher into the light of my conscious mind; yet somehow kept in tow is a wall of sorts,… Read More ›
Do not give up, but stand courageously
Let us charge into the good fight with joy and love without being afraid of our enemies. Though unseen themselves, they can look at the face of our soul, and if they see it altered by fear, they take up arms against us all the more fiercely. For the cunning creatures have observed that we… Read More ›
Bright flame
Sometimes it can’t be helped, two world views collide, for many reasons, some too deep to understand. Yet we still try, rifts come into play, words spoken, emotions flare, and two people walk away from each other thinking the other wrong. Sometimes the divide is simply so wide that no bridge can be built, the… Read More ›
At a Time of Fear and Dark Thoughts, Sweep the ‘Night’ Away Through Spiritual Discipline
Hope beyond hope. Persist beyond persistence. Keys to the glorious struggle called life on earth. Faith can do anything and lead anywhere. Where faith begins, fear ends. As with every other attribute, the way to increase faith is to practice it constantly. It is never wasted. We toss it like seed and some of it… Read More ›
Church welcomes divorced with mercy, Vatican official affirms
Bogotá, Colombia, Mar 30, 2011 / 05:50 pm (CNA).- The head of the Vatican’s council for the family, affirmed that the Catholic Church always embraces those who are divorced and remarried “with truth and mercy.” “Those who are divorced and have entered into a new union cannot be admitted to the Eucharist and to sacramental… Read More ›
The Faith of George Washington
. . . we now have a remarkable ability to uncover what earlier scholars were unable to access. And when we let Washington’s own words and deeds speak for his faith we get quite a different perspective than that of most recent modern historians. Washington referred to himself frequently using the words “ardent,” “fervent,” “pious,”… Read More ›
Finding Home
A friend and I were talking, both about the same age, he 60, I 62, he was voicing his frustration on how he is stuck in certain ways; a man who seeks God, yet unable to move beyond a certain inner barrier, compulsion or sin, well I am not the judge of that. As he… Read More ›
It was the faith of the local peasants
After abba Copres’ very instructive talk he took us to his little garden and showed us the palms and other fruit trees which he had planted. “It was the faith of the local peasants” he said, “which encouraged me to plant these in the desert. For I saw what great faith they had when they… Read More ›
Jesus’ birth declares God is not distant
Vatican City, Dec 25, 2010 / 12:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- God is not distant. He became a man, Pope Benedict declared today to people around the world. The Pope prayed that Jesus’ birth, and the love of God that it made apparent to the world, would bring peace, real freedom to the oppressed, and strength… Read More ›