Posted by: roth0003 on: April 3, 2009
O Lord, grant me to greet the coming day in peace, help me in all things to rely upon your holy will. In every hour of the day reveal your will to me. Bless my dealings with all who surround me. Teach me to treat all the comes to me throughout the day with peace [...]
Posted by: roth0003 on: April 1, 2009
Learning to trust God – for most people at least – isn’t accomplished all at once, and sometimes even the faithful falter. It may be a matter of interpreting the sorrow that comes into our lives as evidence that God is withholding His love. Or perhaps we are unable to feel “connected” to God even [...]
Posted by: roth0003 on: March 22, 2009
Have you ever noticed that sometimes when we ask God to help us to develop a virtue, we run into constant challenges that seem to frustrate our aims? Pray for patience, and there will be red lights and slow grocery checkout lives. Pray to become more loving, and there will be an onslaught of pesky [...]
Posted by: roth0003 on: March 14, 2009
One day a small opening appeared on a cocoon, a man sat and watched for the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go [...]
Posted by: roth0003 on: March 4, 2009
While I recognize that there are many ways of understanding the way the Holy Spirit acts in our lives, I found this concept to be helpful to me. The Spirit acts as a conduit of sorts, bringing Jesus as God-Man to Mary and then to us. In this view, the Spirit is seen a source [...]
