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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou Meditation: For the first time in my pastoral role I have a group of seven Catholic 6-9 year olds who I am teaching about the Christian faith. ThisContinue reading “I Will Never Forget How You Made Me Feel…”

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. Charles Spurgeon Meditation: I was asked by a German Christian Newspaper to write something about how I have experience the “one year of Trump”.  IContinue reading “One Year Of False Gods…”

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed – the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds. Thomas Keating Meditation: Today my husband bought a new leather couch for his office. The old couchContinue reading “God’s Secret Work Of Healing…”

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore Meditation: I noticed lately how my anxious and critical inner voices are like noisy shadows that produce more darkness than light. I am working on not allowing my inner critical and anxious  parts of me to take over myContinue reading “Faith Feels the Light…”

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Samuel Smiles Meditation: The win of a democratic Senator in Alabama is like a lightening strike, a symbolic “light” event that increases the hope that “decency” and dignity will win in the end. The last timeContinue reading “Hope Is Like The Sun…”

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill Meditation: I had imagined public High School to be such a great experience for my teens. The Middle School culture and social dynamics were a struggle for one of my twins. The more extroverted daughter adjusted better, but the more introvertedContinue reading “To Be Whole Is To Change Often…”

Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. Thomas Merton Meditation: God came into our world in the form of a baby, born by an unwed teenage girl, in a stable, far from home, without healthcare and without a heating device or evenContinue reading “God Comes Uninvited…”

The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic His giving, by grace, through faith, and this is not of ourselves. St. Nicholas of Myra Meditation: St. Nicholas is an archaic role model of joyful giving. Sometimes we are being taught that sharing and giving has to be “selfless” andContinue reading “Giving Means Mimicking God…”

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. Therefore the Master takes action by letting things take their course. Lao Tzu Meditation: Lao Tzu’s Eastern spirituality seems so foreign to us Western Protestant Christians. We usually base our lives onContinue reading “Advent means “being” rather than “doing”…”

What is important is not what someone is but what (s)he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. Dorothee Soelle Meditation: I remember when my husband and I just got married. It was a happy and also a somewhat anxious time. How would a bi-racial couple make it in the SouthContinue reading “Advent – Waiting for God’s Possibilities…”