What is a mother? She cried and pushed you into this world, with Jesus Christ providing the light down the tunnel of life. She fed you and made sure you were warm with clothing and love. She set boundaries for you as you tested her time and again, but she hugged you throughout it all. By her role modeling, you became a strong Christian, and you realized that you “were because of many people,” the ubuntu. Before my mother passed…..
Our ability to learn is what gives our minds direction, but what keeps us on a divine path is our faith in God. When we sense His creation with awe and amazement, we grow to understand how large our world is and how God put so much beauty into it. Learning to survive in a world that is based on secularism and relativism can be challenging, but we must acknowledge that to find the keys to this world, we need…..
I lost a good friend this morning. She was a Christian mother and grandmother, who based her life on love, integrity, hard work, courage, generosity, and a love of life. In every aspect of her life, love showed through her words, actions, and deeds. I have never met a more dedicated grandmother to her granddaughters. She drove Emily and Maddy to their dance and music lessons every week and helped the girls to develop a strong Christian faith. She attended…..
You have lived, breathed, and walked in the Light, and the Light promised never to abandon you. Born in a lowly manger, the Light was Jesus Christ, who came to serve the world as His Father’s beloved Son. When you had doubts or fears, He wanted you to follow Him. In the silence, where did He lead you? He led me to the sea, where I saw Him calm the troubled waters and where He breathed the Holy Spirit into…..
We are given paths that only we can take. We may take some detours to get to our destinations, but we always arrive where we are supposed to be. How many miles we cover does not matter. What matters are the special moments along our paths that make us feel alive and loved. While on these paths, the light prevails over the dark. St. Ambrosius said, “Man does not find the truth; the truth finds man.” The truth is God,…..
What is a sense of community? It is the personal relationships you develop, your family, friends, and neighbors. It is the feeling that you belong, that you matter. It is to actually get involved in your surrounding area. In thinking about these three ideas of community, what have we lost, not only in ourselves, in our communities, and in our nation? I believe we have lost that sense of speaking to one another respectfully, with actual interest and compassion. When…..
In the recent release of the movie, The Last Supper, I loved how Peter described who he was before he met Christ and followed Him, and what he became after Christ passed. He was a fisherman by trade, who loved to walk along the shoreline and watch how the powerful waves tumbled and polished the stones as they moved through the water. Some loved the changes that happened to them; others needed more tumbling and polishing to remove the jagged…..
The Reasons for the Cross To be or not to be … To love or to hate … To feed or to starve … To clothe or to make naked … To build or to destroy … To ask or to be silent … To accept or to fight … To give or to receive … To get involved or to be apathetic … To share or to take … To be light or to be dark … To be…..
When Jesus and the disciples drew near to Jerusalem, Jesus sent two of His disciples into the city to find a donkey that He could ride into Jerusalem on. If anyone challenged the disciples, they were to say that He needed the donkey. The owner would say, “Yes,” to them and give them the donkey for Him. Many people gathered and placed their garments on the ground so that the donkey had a path to walk on. They waved palm…..
You Ordained for Us Dear heavenly Father, we thank you for Your abundant gifts of peace, light, love, hope, and grace. They are the foundations of all who truly love You. Just as the pure, white snow adorns our lawns, Your gifts have nourished the earth for the spring to come. Although peace is fleeting around the world, we ask You to place peace in the hearts and minds of those who are at war. We ask that You hold…..