Affirm continuously to yourself: I am in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose. — Ursula Roberts
Today, take a moment to trust in God that you are where you need to be.
Today, take a moment to trust in God that you are where you need to be.
Look back and laugh at a mistake you made.
Is it okay for men to wear earrings while serving at Mass? Fr. Steve is on retreat… Question begins at 7:23. 08-15-13.
It’s often that religious people adopt a “holier than thou” attitude that professes that they have all the answers and that their particular religion is…
Today, seek out the positive in any negative situations that confront you.
It started out as a perfectly mundane shopping trip. Our youngest (nearly one) sat in the front of the cart and our two oldest (two…
Pray today for pure acceptance. Notice how your day goes as long as you hold onto that serenity.
My relatives are an eclectic bunch, pretty evenly split — to use crude and somewhat useless political labels — between Left and Right; our religious diversity includes Catholics, Mormons, evangelicals, United Church of Christ members and a few who are unaffiliated. Throw in my surrogate family (that’s a story for another time) and you add Presbyterians, Jews and Buddhists. As we gather around our family table and share letters and cards this holiday season, I will be looking for opportunities to be a healing force.
My family is like millions of others in the United States who come together this time of year for the holidays and struggle to put their passionate differences aside for a few hours. Of course, these divides always existed, but recent years have been different for two reasons. First, major shifts — generationally and ideologically — have left many feeling left out of the party, so to speak. Second, politics is the ugliest it’s been in modern history. There are plenty of hurt feelings all around. A lot of fear gets stirred up.
In couples counseling, it’s an axiom that the most toxic thing to a relationship is not when the partners disagree, or even fight, but when they stop respecting each other. For several generations now, there has been little trust and respect in the political sphere. Both sides have demonized the other, have assumed ill motives on their opponents’ parts.
But of all relationships, the deepest and oldest, next to our relationship with God, is family. So, how sad when distrust and lack of respect attacks relationships with literal brothers and sisters.
We are told it is natural to thirst for fulfillment in aligning our life with God’s plan for us and to thirst for the kingdom…
Today, give the spare change or singles in your wallet to someone who needs it.