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Practicing Joy - Blessed Is She

Practicing Joy

I am not only enduring terrible pain in my body from this scourging, but also suffering it with joy in my soul because of my devotion to him. // 2 Maccabees 6:30b...
November 20, 2023
Calling Out In Faith - Blessed Is She

Calling Out In Faith

Then Jesus stopped and ordered that he be brought to him; and when he came near, Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" He replied, "Lord, please let...
November 19, 2023
Letting Go for the Good of The Kingdom - Blessed Is She

Letting Go for the Good of The Kingdom

“Well done, my good and faithful servant [ . . . ] Come, share your master’s joy.” // Matthew 25:21 “I didn’t want to lose you. I didn’t want to...
November 18, 2023
When We Want To Give Up - Blessed Is She

When We Want To Give Up

Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary [ . . . ] “But when the Son of Man comes, will...
November 17, 2023
The Author of Beauty Made Me - Blessed Is She

The Author of Beauty Made Me

For from the greatness and the beauty of created things their original author, by analogy, is seen. // Wisdom 13:5 During chemotherapy, my long, thick hair decided to take an extended...
November 16, 2023
Clinging To the Vine - Blessed Is She

Clinging To the Vine

“I am the vine, you are the branches, says the Lord: whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit.” // John 15:5 I hung up the...
November 15, 2023
Our Very Existence is A Gift - Blessed Is She

Our Very Existence is A Gift

And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. // Luke 17:15-16 ...
November 14, 2023
Seeing As He Sees - Blessed Is She

Seeing As He Sees

Chastised a little, they shall be greatly blessed, because God tried them and found them worthy of himself. As gold in the furnace, he proved them, and as sacrificial offerings...
November 13, 2023
Ask Him For More - Blessed Is She

Ask Him For More

And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith." //  Luke 17:5 The hardest and most beautiful week I have ever had was on a mission trip to Haiti...
November 12, 2023
Our Own Hearts Need Apply - Blessed Is She

Our Own Hearts Need Apply

Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known in anticipation...
November 11, 2023
Likes and Likes and Likes - Blessed Is She

Likes and Likes and Likes

“No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”...
November 10, 2023
He Redeems Our Stewardship - Blessed Is She

He Redeems Our Stewardship

“And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently.” // Luke 16:8  I knew all too well what this feeling was of being stiff and frozen in fear. The...
November 09, 2023