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Generous Love
July 31st, 201007:47 AM ETScripture: Do not let the floodwaters overwhelm me, nor the deep swallow me, nor the mouth of the pit close over me. Answer me, LORD, in your generous love; in your great mercy turn to me. Psalms 69:16-17 Prayer: Help me to translate the imagery of the Psalmist into my own prayer to be heard. Response: Yes, your prayer is heard when you are swim... -
Prayer
July 30th, 201007:34 AM ETScripture: But I pray to you, LORD, for the time of your favor. God, in your great kindness answer me with your constant help. Psalms 69:14 Prayer: Help this dialogue of prayer to be for me without interruption. Response: Prayer is an inner dialogue that runs throughout the day and night – yes, an unceasing prayer of intention. Clearly, it is e... -
"Do you believe this?"
July 29th, 201007:21 AM ETScripture: Jesus told (Martha), "I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" John 11:25-26 Prayer: Give me faith. Response: It is a haunting question, isn’t it? Do you believe this? You’ve been told since youth that your... -
The Treasure
July 28th, 201003:09 AM ETScripture: "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it.” ... -
The Harvest
July 27th, 201007:16 AM ETScripture: “The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all who cause others to sin and all evildoers. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears ought to hear.” ... -
Parables
July 26th, 201008:09 AM ETScripture: All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables, to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation (of the world)."Matthew 13:34-35 Prayer: Help me to pause to catch the meaning of the parables in my... -
The door will be opened to you
July 25th, 201007:12 AM ETScripture: "And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyonewho asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks,the door will be opened.” Luke 11:9-10 Prayer: What more familiar verses?Yet, do I really believe? Response: Oh, if you could get over the... -
The threshold of the house of my God
July 24th, 201007:30 AM ETScripture: Better one day in your courts than athousand elsewhere. Better the threshold of the house of my God than a home inthe tents of the wicked. Psalms 84:11 Prayer: Yes,the threshold of the house of my God. Response: It’sall a question of proximity. In prayer, in rising or awakening consciousness,you do approach the threshold of your God.... -
Luminosity
July 23rd, 201007:08 AM ETScripture: Then the virgins shall make merry and dance,and young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will console and gladden them after their sorrows. Jeremiah 31:13 Prayer: Restore my innocence, if not my youth, in the joy of your word. Response: So early in the morning, yet you are graced to embrace the joy in your life... -
Living Waters
July 22nd, 201007:38 AM ETScripture: Two evils have my people done: they have forsaken me, the source of living waters; they have dug themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13Prayer: Give me the faith to search out and drink of the living waters.Response: There is no reason to burden yourself with old, worn water-bags in your quest. Living wate... -
Refuge
July 21st, 201008:29 AM ETScripture: In you, LORD, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. Psalm 71:1 Prayer: Three days in a Trappist Monastery, I reflected upon refuge. Help me to incorporate refuge in my day-to-day living. Response: Indeed, your goal is to bring serenity and tranquility into daily living. It should not take much to incorporate the rhythm and pa... -
Walk humbly
July 19th, 201007:04 AM ETScripture: With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow before God most high? Shall I come before him with holocausts, with calves a year old? . . . You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requires of you: Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:6-8 Prayer: Help me to walk humbly... -
My yoke is easy, and my burden light.
July 15th, 201008:09 AM ETScripture: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light." Matthew 11:28-30 Prayer: I too feel burdened at times, grant me rest. Response: Of course you feel burd... -
On Being Childlike
July 14th, 201006:15 AM ETScripture: At that time Jesus said in reply, "I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Fat... -
Remaining tranquil
July 13th, 201007:20 AM ETScripture: When word came to the house of David that Aram was encamped in Ephraim, the heart of the king and heart of the people trembled, as the trees of the forest tremble in the wind. Then the LORD said to Isaiah: Go out to meet Ahaz . . . and say to him: Take care you remain tranquil and do not fear; let not your courage fail . . . Isaiah 7:2... -
Finding life eternal
July 12th, 201007:26 AM ETScripture: "And whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." Matthew 10:38-39 Prayer: So familiar are these verses; speak to me of crosses and life. Responses: Notice the phrase, whoever does not take up his cross. What if you... -
"The one who treated him with mercy."
July 11th, 201007:17 AM ETScripture: "But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight. He approached the victim, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them. Then he lifted him up on his own animal, took him to an inn and cared for him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction,... -
Here I am; send me.
July 10th, 201001:14 PM ETScripture: (The seraphim) touched my mouth with (the ember). "See," he said, "now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged."Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" "Here I am," I said; "send me!" Isaiah 6:7-8 Prayer: No seraphim have touched my mouth. Response: Don't ...
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