Prayer

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Love the Unlovable

As Jesus noted, loving our neighbor is easy when our neighbor is lovable.

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You Are the Beloved

Maybe it’s my brain chemistry. I have no idea. But one of the things I’m always trying to remember whether it’s guilt, whether it’s shame, whether it’s regret, whether it’s future tripping, whatever it may be, when I slip into ...
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Love Abounds and Astounds

We return over and over to the same place, a connection to the unswerving, the unchanging: God.
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God Desires Communion with Us

Is prayer multiple times a day for everyone? I don’t know. Nor do I know whether it is, in fact, even possible for everyone to carve out that many times a day. Some individuals’ lives are too complicated and demanding, ...
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The Slow Journey to God

In order to progress, we must renew our commitment to Christ daily and then be committed to doing this over and over again.
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Be in the Margins

This is my prayer for our nation, that each of us goes a little further to the margins, peripheries, and abandoned places in our communities to touch the poor there.
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The Ornament of All Virtues

Humility is the guardian and the ornament of all virtues. If the spiritual building does not rest upon it, it will fall to ruin, though it seems to be growing.
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