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Discomfort Zone

God doesn’t promise to keep us from all harm—only that God will always, always, always be with us in them.
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Meditating upon the Core

Reflect For St. Bonaventure, his structure for reality began with the Trinity: the self-diffusive, creative force of love shared in relationship between the Father, Spirit, and Son. What would it look like to imitate this same dynamic in our own ...
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Protection from Evil

Reflect “I will put enmity between you and the woman.”—Genesis 3:15a In my church, there is a lovely statue of Mary tenderly holding her infant Jesus. A small, largely unnoticed detail in this statue is under Mary’s foot. She is ...
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God Works in Secret

Reflect Today reflect on a passage from Henri Nouwen, “Whereas the way of the world is to insist on publicity, celebrity, popularity, and getting maximum exposure, God prefers to work in secret…in God’s sight the things that really matter seldom ...
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Righteous Anger

Reflect When I was young, I remember first hearing the story of Jesus at the Temple, confronting salespeople about turning his Father’s house into a den of thieves. I remember thinking, Wow, Jesus was angry! He wasn’t just annoyed, but ...
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The Bright Side

Reflect All too often we focus on the negative things and get caught up in everything that we think is going wrong in our lives. What we fail to realize, though, is that we have so much for which we ...
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Beneath God’s Wings

Reflect Have you ever sat in a moment and thought, “I prayed for this”? Far too often we strive for the next goal or focus on what we don’t have yet. By doing so, we lose sight of the fact ...
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