Humans are creatures of habit. Habits are hard to change, at least the dysfunctional and sinful ones are. After all, Jesus spent three years trying to get people to change their habitual way of thinking, and it took His death, resurrection and ascension to shift their paradigm…
On this Holy Thursday, reflect upon how Jesus loved His own in the world, and He loved them to the end. His love for you is enduring too.
One minute, multitudes of people are celebrating Jesus as He enters Jerusalem. In short time, they turn into an angry mob. This is what hate looks like.
There are many common, detrimental ways that we accept small lies and ignore the voice inside us that objects to them. That little ‘voice’ is the Holy Spirit protecting us by firing up unrest in our conscience at the presence of untruths. Yet how easy it is to ignore the Spirit and go with the lie. This list of common false spirits provides fuel for a heart-y Examen and mental prayer. 😊
This second article in the series on aging focuses on the dynamic of a wife caring for an aging or dying husband.