Sharing the Word

We need to be persistent in prayer not for the sake of informing God of our needs but to train ourselves to expect and appreciate what God does for us.

Both Luke's and Matthew's versions of the Lord's Prayer teach us how we are to address God, but also describe the kind of God we are to address.

Being busy involves a conscious and focused expenditure of time and energy. There are different ways of being busy and different kinds of busy-ness.

Being neighbor to others is a matter of extending ourselves to those in need--regardless of whether or not there are human connections.

One of the graces each of us has is being an "instrument of peace" that God can use for the sake of others. Indeed we are the hands of God.

Much of what we associate with guardian angels is based on spiritual imagination. But the reality is that God takes care of us in all kinds of ways.