What is this complexity of me? Created beyond time and space. This is a reflection on the gifts God gives us in our personhood.
We Wait For Peace
- 30 June 2024
- Tagged as: baking, Consolation, Desert, Direction, Elijah, jars, mental health, Oil, Peace, Prophet, Spiritual Desolation, Widow of Zarapheth
Jesus I surrender myself to you, take care of everything. So goes the ejaculation in the surrender novena by a very holy priest. How often do we really take the time to actually surrender everything to Our Lord? It is so easy to be controlling and try to run everything. We want everything to be perfect. We want things to run smoothly but by trying to direct everything, we might miss what God is actually wanting to happen. He works patiently and discreetly and it is easy to miss what His call is. He works in the small and the mundane and does not like when we are too grandiose and lost in perfection.
Peace I Give to You
- 19 June 2024
- Tagged as: Balancing Act, Beloved, Brewery, Calm, Consolation, Failure, Forgiveness, Fullness, Garden, Gift, Gratitude, mental health, Mercy, Peace, Seedlings, Sin, Wine
Listen to the voice,
“My peace I give you,
My peace I leave you,
Not as the world gives.”
We Wait for Peace
- 1 June 2024
- Tagged as: abandonment, beckoning, Belonging, Beloved, Bread, Calm, Desert, Drout, Elijah, Famine, Fatherhood, Flour, Life, Meaning, mental health, My Life, Oasis, Oil, Peace, Prayer, Prophet, Questioning, Rain, Salt, Widow, Widow of Zarapheth
In the dry, deserted land, we wait for all our unanswered questions. We hope we have enough and cry for some light. We are tested and then we find, we have enough.
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Season Two Belonging, A Father’s Authority; Episode Seven, Presence
- 25 October 2023
- Tagged as: Belonging, Calm, Contemplation, De Profundis, Depression, Fatherhood, Gregorian Chant, heart wounds, Mary and Martha, mental health, Missionary, Movement of the Heart, Native Americans, Out of the Depths, Peace, Presence, Psalm 130, Service, St. Benedict, St. Isaac Jogues, St. Therese
Coming Soon!
- 12 October 2023
- Tagged as: Belonging, Calm, Direction, Fatherhood, mental health, Peace, Vocation
Interview with life coach Michelle Oie