Anxiety about the future The future is in God’s hands, not yours. God will rule it according to your need. But if you seek to forecast it in your own wisdom, you will gain nothing but anxiety and anticipation of...
Embrace your circumstances as the soil for your uniquely wonderful future. Accept the good and the bad of your life, and then realize that these circumstances place opportunities before you that are unique to you. There’s only one you. Your...
I waited patiently for God;God inclined to me and heard my cry.God drew me up from the desolate pit,out of the miry bog,and set my feet upon a rock,making my steps secure.God put a new song in my mouth,a song...
manna exodus 16 i forgot to write a poem about the manna this morning and isn’t that just typical that the bread on the ground you forgot to gather spoils if you try to keep it for even one day?...
Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. —Philippians 1:6 In the safety of My care you may rest your soul. No harm...
Dedication to the Resurrected LifeChrist has no body now, but yours.No hands, no feet on earth, but yours.Yours are the eyes through whichChrist looks compassion into the world.Yours are the feetwith which Christ walks to do good.Yours are the handswith...
Flannery Accounts for Counting“He held him under while he said the words of Baptismand then he jerked him up again and looked sternly at thegasping child. . . . ‘You count now,’ the preacher said. ‘Youdidn’t even count before.’”—Flannery O’Connor,“The...
What are you then, my God—what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? Or who is God save our God? Most high, most excellent, most powerful, most almighty, most merciful, and most just; most hidden, yet most present;...
Francis understood keenly that a spiritual life is ultimately found in our intentions, not only in our actions. Francis taught from this passage in the First Epistle of St. John:We know that we have passed from death to life because...
