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Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path. (Psalm 119) 

Christ Jesus, help me pay attention as I listen to you ....

1/31/2019

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Mark 4:21-25                                                              
 
The common maxim, that ‘the measure you give will be the measure you get’, is often true.  But it is only half of the story. “Pay attention to what you hear,” says Jesus, “because the measure you give will be the measure you get (from listening).’ I cannot give what I have not first received.  I cannot fully love if I have not first connected into God’s love for me. I cannot forgive, if I have not first integrated God’s forgiveness into my own life. I cannot lead others into an understanding of Light and Wisdom and the abundance of Life that humans are designed for, if I have not first studied the Light and Wisdom and Abundance of Life that Father God through Christ Jesus holds out to us. Today am I paying attention to the Word expressed by the Holy Spirit of Jesus stirring in my heart? Christ Jesus, help me pay attention as I listen to you. 
 
Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life, says the Lord.  (John 8:12)
 
What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language he best hears is silent love.
St. John of the Cross
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Soli ad gloriam Dei
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Christ Jesus, save me by your life once offered for all ....

1/30/2019

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Hebrews 10:11-18                                                      
  
God’s offering of Jesus’ life here on earth continues to save us, one man, one woman, one child at a time, as much as we allow the Holy Spirit to ‘put God’s laws in [our] hearts, and to write them on [our] minds.’ Although governments commit all kinds of atrocities, pride and greed still impose an imbalance on the world’s economy, and people still make foolish and sometimes disastrous choices,  at an individual level I am, and everyone is, still free to turn to Jesus and live into his life. I am still at liberty to pray and proclaim his life, death, and resurrection recorded in scripture and in the lives of all the saints, both past and present. I can always hour by hour, day by day, turn my back on the evil and darkness that would engulf me, take up the cross of my life, and walk confidently in the footsteps of Christ’s life on earth. Today will I allow Jesus’ life to save me?  Christ Jesus, save me by your life once offered for all.     
 
I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.  (John 8:12)
 
Faith is like the feet wherewith the soul journeys to God, and love is the guide that directs it.
St. John of the Cross
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Soli ad gloriam Dei
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Holy Spirit, help me do the will of God  ...

1/29/2019

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Hebrews 10:1-10 & Mark 3:31-35                            
  
I can spend so much time muddling through my own plans and projects, trying to fit them into what I perceive to be the will of God. ‘Is God leading me here, should I do that over there, what do you want me to do?’ I beg from a heart frightened and bound by my own morality. But really, the will of God is simply performing the mercy of God and being faithful to his new covenant with humanity, brokered by the death and resurrection of Jesus: forgiveness, redemption and healing from our collective and individual sins. When I understand this, I see every situation and relationship as an opportunity to live into the mercy and faithfulness of God, who desires my own faithfulness to his nature, which is holy and pure Light and Love and Life. Then I no longer need to spend time seeking and planning God’s will, but ‘just do it’ and apply mercy and faithfulness to God to every situation and circumstance that comes along.  Today will I perform God’s will or my own?  Holy Spirit, help me do the will of God.   
 
Then I said, “As it is written of me in the scroll of the book, ‘See, God, I have come to do your will, O God.’” (Hebrews 10:7)
 
In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human successes, but on how well we have loved.
St. John of the Cross
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Soli ad gloriam Dei
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Christ Jesus, save me by your death once offered for all ...

1/28/2019

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Hebrews 9:15-28                                                        
  
It is horrendous!  The Son of God, come to speak mercy and faithfulness into humanity, to heal the broken-hearted and to release captives, himself being taken captive by human kind, exposed to heart-breaking rejection, being put to death on a cross! And yet this atrocity, more barbaric than the sacrificial death of any lamb, -brokered through Christ’s mercy and faithfulness to God –released people who sin, past, present, and future, from the unavoidable and relentless finality of the gates of hell. Do I real-ize the implication of Christ’s passion and death with my life? With every day that I live, move, and have my being, will I consider that Christ Jesus once and for all broke the downward centripetal force of sin, allowing me to live into divine mercy and faithfulness, and by my own peaceful (redeemed) death enter into God’s nearer presence? Christ Jesus, save me by your death, once offered for all.  
      
O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvellous things. (Psalm 98:1)
 
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
St. John of the Cross
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Soli ad gloriam Dei
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Holy Spirit, help me get into the boat with Jesus...

1/26/2019

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Mark 4:35-41
 

 
As his followers we are all on a “journey with Jesus”, whether on foot or by boat. Jesus normally travelled the Judean countryside by walking, but when he needed to get to the other side of Lake Galilee, he went by boat. So it is in our lives. At times our Master suggests that he and we go to another location to minister there. Then he gets into a boat – or a set of circumstances –and sits down. Will I stay behind on safe and stable dry land, or take a different boat than Jesus, perhaps with others or ‘all by myself’?  Or will I, like the disciples, get into the boat that Jesus is sitting in so that when the winds of adversity come up and we go through rough waters I can turn to Him to calm the storms and the seas of my life?  Holy Spirit, help me get into the same boat that Jesus is sitting in.  Help me get into the boat with Jesus! 
   
He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still! Then the wind ceased and there was a dead calm.   (Mark 4:39)
 
“Now, I know in my experience that Jesus’ light is stronger than the biggest darkness.” Corrie Ten Boom
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Soli ad gloriam Dei
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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