Faithfulness shall spring from the earth
“To consider God equally good in things that are petty and ordinary as in those that are great and uncommon is to have a faith that is not ordinary, but great and extraordinary. (Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade)
Finding God in all things
God has designed complementarity across personalities and purposes that serve to bring order and harmony in the cosmos. All of this is His plan for Divine Providence, His infinite wisdom of His Divine Mind exhibited only in us who are created in His image.
Thus, if you did not exist, there would something of the wisdom of God that the world would never know, hidden from the entire cosmos. Every life matters, including yours.
The better-good choice
For the Christian seeking to grow closer to God, the difficulty in decision making isn’t in choosing something good. It is in making the right choice, the better-good choice. Part of the discernment process should be a test to find where love is in your heart vs. where focus is on yourself and your needs…
A mother’s heart
It is said that a mother is only as happy as her least-happy child. But no mother sorrows alone; Mary suffers with us. The sword that pierced your heart also pierces hers. And when Mary holds your child, she holds Jesus in your child’s heart. Just as nothing can separate her heart from His, neither can her heart be separated from your child.
Who is this God?
The beauty and majesty of spring weather remind us of the power and might of God. This is the spiritual reality within which we live, survive, and thrive. In the sky and in our heart, dark clouds beckoning to threaten our existence play a sort of tug-o-war with the sun, of whom we catch glimpses just often enough to give hope for the calm to come.
Our Father’s Embrace
On this Trinity Sunday, don’t fret if you are unable to understand (let alone explain) the nature of the Trinity! Allow yourself to be scooped up into your Father’s embrace and share that love with others. 😊
Shedding light on the “dark night”
We experience all sorts of darkness in our active and spiritual lives. Yet it is a common error to refer to all of it as a dark night of the soul. With depression and suicide epidemic in the US, it seems to be an apt time to look into this difference more closely.
With bands of love
Why is it so hard to walk the talk of Faith? Why do we only permit God to refine us to a certain point, but no farther? “I drew them with bands of love” (Hosea 11:4)
Honesty and discernment
Have you ever had an important choice to make and didn’t know how to discern the best decision? Our rich Catholic heritage has the answer: “Everyone must keep in mind that in all that concerns the spiritual life, his progress will be in proportion to his surrender of self-love and of his own will and interests.” (St. Ignatius of Loyola, sp. ex. 189)
Proof that we are His children
Jesus is our Good Shepherd Whose voice we know because It exists in our soul, directing us to Him in whispers. But we must choose to follow it and to remain in the fold by habits of virtue.