Let our offering be as precious as Abraham’s as we offer up to God what is most precious to us: our control and our desire to have life only as we would want it.
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Lent means going into the desert and letting go
It is precisely in our nakedness and emptiness, weariness and loneliness that we most find our God.
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More than ever, we need to hear Jesus speak
We need his healing touch. We need his promise of the kingdom. We need our hungers and thirsts (deep within our individual and collective spirits) satisfied.
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Jesus as healer, restorer of life is the Jesus many seek today
The greatest healing throughout the Gospel goes to, and comes from, the center of the spirit in each of us.
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Does Jesus’ teachings, word, example amaze us?
And even if they do, is there more? Do we feel compelled to follow him? Is his word truth like no other truth?
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Does Jesus’ power reach into us? Does his word have authority, leave us spellbound?
The evangelist Mark presents a Jesus to us that has power over demons, over nature, over human illness. Do we find that when he calls we always wish to follow — “Your will”?
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A vibrant relationship with God requires waiting
These aren’t just Advent themes, but everyday themes of the spiritual life.
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Through our baptism, have we heard God’s voice speaking to us?
This biblical utterance made to Jesus at his baptism in the River Jordan is repeated over each of us.
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Do we bring our gifts and, by our generosity, discover that we have been far more gifted?
What does the star — the light — reveal to us? Do we discover any new truths about us, about God, about others? Do we bring our gifts and, by gift-giving, discover that we have been far more gifted?
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Can we not believe that in the ‘very ordinary’ God is present?
Can we not believe that in the daily stuff of life that God is working, calling, sending, giving, sustaining? It is not the events of our lives that need to change. It is more the understanding and appreciation that God is there.
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