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Reflect The Bible instructs us to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thes 5:11). Who are the people that encourage and support you? Who are the people that you could better support and encourage? Pray God of ...

Reflect Sometimes the demands that are placed upon us—which are often self-inflicted demands—fuel expectations that mysteriously bind themselves to us. We become bonded to a false reality rooted in lack, and therefore become blinded to an unfolding reality that is ...

Reflect Meditate today on this sentence, “God, don’t change my circumstances, change me”.  Pray God, instead of asking youto change the outer world,today I simply request:guide me within, to the perfect interiorof my heart where you live. When I find you, it ...

Reflect One of the most troubling stories in the Old Testament is that of Jacob tricking his father, Isaac, into giving him the blessing meant for his brother Esau (Gen 27). There are plenty of theories and interpretations that attempt ...

Reflect Our armed forces gift a purple heart to those who are wounded in combat. Jesus gifts the broken with his most Sacred Heart. Pray Jesus,The depth of its tone,the nourishment of its blood,the refinement of its flame,the love of ...

Reflect One day, I found myself separated from the person responsible for my ride home from a professional football game. Worse yet, I had forgotten where we’d parked. I began to feel panic. Then I remembered the adage “when you ...