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Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 19 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 19

“Jesus spoke very strongly to me. ‘What are you doing?’ he said to me. ‘What have you to say? Aren't you ever moved at all?’ Then it was that, not being able to resist any longer, I blurted out: ‘Oh Jesus, how is it that you who are most perfect and all holy choose one so full of coldness and imperfection to love?’”
Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 18 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 18

A good dancer who knows how to lead is art in motion. They have the ability to make even a bad dancer look good, or even a bad dancer feel...
Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 17 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 17

Saint Gemma Galgani. She had the stigmata. She had piercing eyes.  

This was about all I knew about Saint Gemma, and I couldn’t really relate. Then a friend received Saint Gemma’s name at religious profession, and I became intrigued. 

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 16 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 16

Friend. Redeemer. Lord. Creator. Almighty. Savior. These are all titles of God that we are familiar with, and often use to address God. However, the title of husband is not one we hear in worship songs or devotions, and might even make us squirm a little bit.
Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 15 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 15

“Give me a drink.” (John 4:7) These are the words of the Lord to us this day as we come to rest with Him and spend precious time with Him in prayer. He is the One who invites us to this rendezvous. 
Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 14 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 14

One might be tempted to think that it must have been easy for Mother Teresa to be united to the Lord. There were even occasions when “the Voice” (Come Be My Light, 85) spoke to her interiorly. Jesus communicated Himself in a very intimate way with her. If that was the case for us, we might argue, how easy things would be!
Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 13 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 13

After my time as a missionary in a foreign country had come to an end and the convent life before that was already only a memory, I returned to the US with many questions and a lot to unload.
Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 12 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 12

Mother Teresa spent hours each day in prayer before the start of her service to the poor and at the end of a long day. She did not use her work, immense physical labor, or fatigue as an excuse to forgo time with her Lover and Intimate Friend.
Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 11 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 11

Most of us have seen some romantic comedies—whether as teenagers, in our hopeless college years, or perhaps even later on in life. Who doesn’t like a good, sappy romance movie...
Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 10 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 10

The first time I was “stopped in my tracks” by Mother Teresa was when I was a teenager. I sat next to my mom to watch a documentary about her...
Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 9 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 9

Therefore, I will now allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her… And I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you...
Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 8 - Blessed Is She

Awaken Love: The 2023 Prayer Pledge // Day 8

In the early morning light, I ponder the beauty of a quiet house at rest: the sweet sounds of sleeping children stirring gently, the low hum of slow, deep breaths....