thoughts on life and faith
“It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes [and fears] for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, … Continue reading Morning Vulnerabilities
16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” … Continue reading Being a Father; Being a Son
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. - Romans 7:24-25 Recently I have felt more melancholy than … Continue reading Chick Fil-A and This Daily Sorrow
so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy upon us - Psalm 123:2b May our eyes be found to be satisfied resting in His image. When He returns, may we be the first to see Him. It is in these times of frustration and struggle that our gaze lowers and … Continue reading Hope and Televised Despair
You can never go back. Recently I found myself in a familiar town with a sort of haunted past. It is the sort of place you associate tidal waves of feelings and memories to, and they come rushing back immediately following that first fateful city limit breath. The boundaries are far enough away not to … Continue reading You Can Never Go Back
3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths . . . - 2 Timothy 4:3-4 The message of Christ is … Continue reading Is My Truth True?
146 I call to you; save me, that I may observe your testimonies. 147 I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words. 148 My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise. - Psalm 119:146-148 There is something holy about the morning. … Continue reading Pre – Dawn “Clicks” and Baby Alarm Clocks
"St. Thomas says that a man is good when his will takes joy in what is good, evil when his will takes joy in what is evil. He is virtuous when he finds happiness in a virtuous life, sinful when he takes pleasure in a sinful life. Hence the things that we love tell us … Continue reading We Are What We Love
4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him . . . 16 But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, 17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. - 2 Timothy 2:4,16-17 I get distracted easy. With the … Continue reading Facebook Babble and Civilian Pursuits
"This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly. That war is our wilderness. If we wage it courageously, we will find Christ at our side. If w cannot face it, we will never find Him. … Continue reading Desert of Despair
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