In a way, God and God’s work make it happen; in reality, don’t we do it because we don’t really listen to that word?
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Your signs are Jonah and Nineveh — harden not your hearts
Your sign is Jonah. Your sign is Ninevah. Please. Harden not your hearts.
Continue readingJesus calls us to a complete and total change of heart — metanoia
Jesus confronts the demonic and godless ways that so infectiously lead to more and more and more of the same.
Continue readingHow do we balance ‘liminal’ space?
And in all of the opposites and all of these paradoxes, the “liminal” space invites us to be uncomfortable, seeking and discovering — and all of that at its own pace in its own time, as it is revealed.
Continue readingIt is God’s will that we ask and receive
When I was merciful to Nineveh you complained. You were more upset that the plant died and you had to endure the heat then if I had wiped away 120,000 people!
Continue readingToday is a simple story: Listen
Well, today is a simple story, a simple truth, a simple way to live.
Continue readingLike St. Francis of Assisi, let us discover the love of Jesus
Francis heard in his heart Jesus’ call and lived that call fully.
Continue readingOur Father is home and invites us to share in his love, constant care
If we had the same total dependence on and trust in God our Father, we would know, experience, grow in and thrive upon the power of the kingdom of God that is in our midst.
Continue readingIn our own reflection of the word, we invite God into our hearts and souls
Jesus invites. Jesus encourages. Jesus shows the way. And Jesus acknowledges that some will reject him and he who sent him.
Continue readingIn the precepts — laws — of the Lord, we find contentment
The people were in the presence of and were hearing the law — the precepts of the Lord — and their reaction was awe in the presence of the Lord.
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