Prayerful Quote
God's love is like a river springing up in the depth of the Divine Substance and flowing endlessly through His creation, filling all things with life and goodness and strength. - Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
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Personal Pondering
by Colleen Spiro
I found these words last week (in Terry Hershey's newsletter) by Robert Capon about how "we live like ill-taught piano students. So concerned with playing the right notes, we never hear the music."
I know I am often like that. I get so intent on being the perfect wife and mother and secretary and Catholic and writer, I miss living. I miss the joy and the beauty and the music.
I forget that God loves me just the way I am. I forget that God made me and so God knows who I am and what I am and how imperfect I am.
I think that it probably bothers God more when we miss His gifts. The gifts of life and love and and sunsets and, well, music.
When I used to watch my sons trying to play the piano when they were little, I never thought about the mistakes they were making. I was thinking more about how much fun they were having.
When Adam and Eve realized they were naked and hid themselves from God, He asked them, "Who told you that you were naked?" (Genesis 3:11) God wanted to walk with them in the garden, but they thought they weren't good enough and so they went into hiding.
I need to stop worrying about being perfect. I need to stop worrying about playing the right notes. I just need to remember to live each moment.
I need to stop hiding, walk with my God and be sure to hear His music. |
Gratitude Journal
If the only prayer you ever say in your life is thank you, it will be enough."
Meister Eckhart
I am grateful for my husband
and my children, grandchildren and the love they give to me. I am thankful to
the Lord for His helping my husband heal from his recent rotator cuff surgery.
I know that he will continue to be with him as he heals. My husband and family
and my friends have given me so much love and I know that it is from the Lord.
I will be ever grateful for all that he has bestowed upon me and mine. - Marie
Colleen, I'm grateful for
knowing people like you, who lift me up, and feed my soul with beautiful
thoughts! I'm a lonely man in a world full of people; most of them don't relate
to my ideas and lifestyle. I'm grateful for the Internet and especially for
Social Sites like Twitter and Facebook, where I have found souls who are my
kind of people, i. e. those who truly love God and want to do His Will by
obeying the Commandments, the Beatitudes and the Precepts of the Church. We may
not meet in person in this life, but certainly will meet in that Great Social
Site in Heaven, the Kingdom
of God! Imagine the fun
we will have there! May your heart be
melded in the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary! "May the Lord grant all
your prayers!" (Psalm 20) - Deacon John Giglio |
