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Hope for Today
December 18, 2024 // Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s First Reading: Jeremiah 23:5-8 Reflect on the Word// I slid...
His Will for You is Good
Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s Gospel: Matthew 8:5-11 Reflect on the Word // I took a deep breath and mustered all of my courage. Like a...
When it’s Hard to Give Thanks
“Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” // Luke 17 (from the Gospel for Thanksgiving Day) I blinked groggily and reached...
Hold our Lady’s Hand
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women. // Luke 1:28 (from Gospel for Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary) Fumbling in...
Victory...Little By Little
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. // John 3:17 We hustled silently through...
What Do You Wish?
He said to her, "What do you wish?" // Matthew 20:20 Tiny waves lapped on the placid seashore, making a musical sound as they trickled out over small stones. I...
Who Told You That?
Then [God] asked, "Who told you that you were naked? // Genesis 3:11 My family still talks about my standing ovation in Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. I was in ninth...
Live For Heaven
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul. // 1 Peter 2:11 For more than a decade, I...
Your Life is a Gift
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. // John 10:18 A lot of cleaning. That’s what I saw in nearly every frame of...
Home In His Arms
See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. // 1 John 3:1 “I don’t have a...
When in Doubt? Jesus, I Trust in You
"Pay attention to what I am telling you.” // Luke 9:44 “Here, take a whole pack!” Sister cried over her shoulder, blue and white habit billowing behind her as she...
Grouchy Prayer and the God Who Sees
I sat cross-legged and irritated in worship. I couldn’t find my rhythm, couldn’t find any rest. I love to pray this way, I reminded myself. I loved worshipping in a...
