Tag: heart
Search the Scriptures
Search the Scriptures. For you are not mistaken in thinking that you find life in them, you who seek nothing else in them but Christ, to whom the Scriptures bear witness. Blessed indeed are they who search his testimonies, seek them out with all their heart. Your testimonies are wonderful, Lord, therefore my soul has… Read More ›
Caring
Coldness protects the heart, though in the end it imprisons, for pain and love waltz together as the years wind down and life takes it toll. Is it not glorious, wonderful beyond all telling, that we can love, our hearts expanding, until yes they break and the tears flow. Some fear this, yet what would… Read More ›
Purpose
Inner pain is a far from rare experience for humans. Being self-aware comes with a high cost that often causes the inner self, or soul or consciousness to bleed. Perhaps our first step towards being unique personalities with a personal perspective starts when we first experience pain. For it is then, when we are torn… Read More ›
As Lent Begins…
Begin to recognize yourself, to love and possess yourself, to be kind to yourself, and you will be happy. If you desire to know yourself and to possess yourself, go into yourself, and do not search for yourself outside. Distinguish between what is around you, what belongs to you, and your self. The world surrounds… Read More ›
Lacerated (A prayer for all in inner pain)
You see Lord my struggle, sometimes I think I am drowning, I pray for a loving heart, yet so much violence, hatred, the desire to hurt dwells within. Why do I want to lash out beloved? Am I really so evil, shattered within; will I go under, devoured by my own inner hungry and rapacious… Read More ›
Lincoln: The Overruling Power of God
It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, and to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in Holy Scripture, and… Read More ›
Glimpsing the Cosmic Dance
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho,… Read More ›
The Touch
In the world are many things, some pleasant, others very repulsive; There is human warmth, and demonic cold heartedness, and some who are indifferent; Empathy and compassion exist along side hearts and minds armored, dead to the pain of others. Those who flee from pain and then others who love to inflict it; Good mothers,… Read More ›
To Be Present to the Present
Being where we are — immersed in it, aware of it, alert to it — may well be the secret to living well, to living fully. It is a lesson to be learned. In a culture based on motion it is no small trick to allow ourselves to be present to the present, to see… Read More ›
Mary is watching over us and praying for us
[Jesus] is always on the watch, as much as He was when the Apostles in Peter’s ship were struggling with the storm on the Sea of Galilee. although unseen by us, He is always there with His mother watching over His Church, secretly strengthening it, prepared again to come walking on the waters. He never… Read More ›