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A Promise is a Promise
Both Feast days of yesterday and today are about promises of God and how we react to them. Yesterday, on the Feast of the Holy Family we see Mary and Joseph presenting the Christ-child at the temple. Simeon and Anna … Continue reading
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Tagged #APromiseisaPromise, #BabeinaManager, #cancer, #family, #godisababy, #holyfamily, #Jesusisoneofus, #MaryMotherofGod, #Peace, #Prayer, #Promised, #ProtectionofGod, #TrustingGod, #Waiting
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Anna’s Steadfastness
Can you imagine waiting with great anticipation for most of your life for an event to unfold, never knowing how or when it would happen? The uncertainty of who would even be the source of all your longing made the … Continue reading
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Tagged #cancer, #family, #Godinallthings, #godisababy, #holyfamily, #Peace, #Prayer, #ReadinesstoReceiveARedeemer, #SheWasPromised, #Steadfastness, #Waiting, #waitingforamiracle
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Sharing Our Humanity
During the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, retreatants spend some time contemplating on the birth of Jesus. Directors often encourage them to pick the Divine Infant and hold the new-born King. Often it is Mary who gently offers the Child. … Continue reading
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Tagged #cancer, #Contemplations, #DirtyStableLessons, #family, #Feelings, #Freedom, #Friendship, #GodbecameOneofUs, #Gratitude, #Home, #JesusismyModel, #Jesusisoneofus, #Joy, #LivinguntilIDie, #MessinessofChristmas, #Peace, #Prayer, #Relationships, #RoleModel, #SharedOurHumanity, #SpiritualDirection, #SpiritualExercises
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Ungrateful Hearts
My friends to the south are celebrating Thanksgiving today. I have been thinking about praise and thanks lately. I have been missing in action on this page for just over a week now. With everything else I am sorting, through … Continue reading
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Tagged #cancer, #DailyReading, #DanceAnyway, #Faith, #Feelings, #friendsaregrace, #Friendship, #Godinallthings, #goodhands=God'shands, #Gratitude, #JesusAlways, #marianfeast, #MaryMotherofGod, #mystery, #OpenHands, #Peace, #Prayer, #Relationships, community
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Be Radiant!
My Magi are interspersed with candles this year as they make their way to the stable. The first reading for Epiphany is delightful. From Isaiah 60:1-6, the theme is light: Arise, shine! Be radiant! What struck me reading it was … Continue reading
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Tagged #BeRadiant!, #cancer, #ChooseLife, #Epiphany, #FearNot!, #followthestar, #GloryoftheLord, #Gratitude, #Joy, #LightoftheWorld, #Magi, #Peace, #Shine!, #ShineBrightly, #Star-Flinger, #StarLight, #StarMaker, #Sundayreadings, Lightinthedarkness
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Holy Mother Model
Mary is a model for all women, not just mothers, but all of us who take a risk and trust in a God who takes our comfort zones and stretches them far wider than we ever thought possible. This young … Continue reading
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Tagged #Blessings, #cancer, #comfortandjoy, #Discipleship, #Friendship, #GraciousGod, #Gratitude, #Joy, #marianfeast, #MaryMotherofGod, #Montserrat, #Peace, #Prayer, #StretchMarks, #Sundayreadings, #VulnerableandOpen, #Yes
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Lighting the Way
I watched as the last of the Chanukah candles burned out yesterday. Everyone else had moved on to latkes and conversations. I had too but I kept one eye on the candles in the menorah. These three brightly-coloured candles whose … Continue reading
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Tagged #BabeinaManager, #beauty, #cancer, #change, #Chanukah, #Gratitude, #Hannukah, #Joy, #LightoftheWorld, #LighttheWay, #LightvsDark, #Peace, #Prayer, #Shepherds&Magi, #StarLight, #StarMaker, #Waiting, Lightinthedarkness
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Here Comes The Son
The sun showed up early this morning in all its glory, as if to say Here I am, after the longest night of the year, here I am where I have always been, waiting for you to notice me. Ah, … Continue reading
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Tagged #Adoration, #beauty, #Blessings, #BodyofChrist, #Bokeh, #cancer, #grateful, #Gratitude, #Joy, #LightoftheWorld, #LightvsDark, #LoveCameDown, #Peace, #photography, #Prayer, #PrayerList, #Sonshine, Lightinthedarkness
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God in all things 