Category Archives: #CancerSurvivor

Let Everything Happen

Posted on September 21, 2015 by sstyves

I read this tonight, posted on her Facebook page by a friend of mine who is celebrating tomorrow seven years of being cancer-free: God speaks to each of us as God makes us, then walks with us silently out of … Continue reading →

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Protection for the Righteous

Posted on September 20, 2015 by sstyves

The readings are challenging today. Wisdom 2 has the godless saying: Let us lie in wait for the righteous one who makes life inconvenient to us and opposes our actions…let us test what will happen at the end of his … Continue reading →

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Looking Great

Posted on September 19, 2015 by sstyves

Well, you look great! I am not sure how many times I have heard this over the past six months. People learn that I have been sick, had surgery and am in chemo and after talking to me for a … Continue reading →

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Love Stays True

Posted on September 14, 2015 by sstyves

I was on retreat this weekend with Malcolm Guite, a British poet, Anglican priest, professor, author, scholar, and singer-songwriter. He looks like a character out of the classics he studies–you might expect to run into someone such as him in … Continue reading →

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God Finished Working

Posted on September 7, 2015 by sstyves

Labour Day is usually a lazy day, the exact opposite of what its name implies. Most people have a final resting day before the crazy fall schedule kicks in. This is the time of year where many people start to … Continue reading →

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First Saturdays

Posted on September 5, 2015 by sstyves

On first Saturdays at my church after mass, we have healing teams pray with people who are in need of physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. I have gone to these prayer teams for years now and today was no different. … Continue reading →

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Thanking Enough

Posted on August 27, 2015 by sstyves

Today’s First Reading from 1 Thessalonians 3 asks a pertinent question: How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we feel before our God because of you? I have just completed a one-week … Continue reading →

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Beauty Balm

Posted on August 25, 2015 by sstyves

Beauty has a restorative quality to it that is indescribable. Immerse yourself in scenic tranquility and a serenity steeps your soul slowly, silently. Before you know it, a new person is brewed. Whatever stress you might have felt is shed. … Continue reading →

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From the Core

Posted on August 19, 2015 by sstyves

Trees have always spoken to me This one caught my attention in the earlier part of the day when the sap sparkled in the sunshine. This afternoon in the shade, I returned. As I stood looking out at the … Continue reading →

Posted in #CancerSurvivor, #Miracles, #prayer, #Saints, Catholic, Christian, Faith, Spirituality | Tagged #cancer, #SpiritTrees | 10 Comments

Face to Face

Posted on August 18, 2015 by sstyves

Gideon is not someone I am very familiar with but I like that he builds an altar to the Lord today and calls it The Lord is peace. In Chapter 6 of Judges, Gideon is full of tough questions: If … Continue reading →

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