And so when Jesus begins to talk with the same intimacy and security about his Father, sadly it does not affect those who would hear none of it.
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An opportunity to learn about God’s mercy and love
And, obviously a teaching story accounting for the absolute need for we little beings to change our ways — especially of sin and evil deeds — to make things right, and to benefit from good living and grace-filled living. Right?
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Seeing ourselves as happy souls doing God’s will
And maybe we all need a little of Eli in our lives, too. Maybe we need to share with one another our own experiences of God, and our own growth in listening and surrendering so that others might learn it, too.
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Amid the murkiness of the scriptures, they are becoming clearer all the time
And is not there always more to see, more to hear, more to know, more to find?
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See and appreciate your gifts and talents
To bury, as if dead the person and the personal qualities we have been given, is an unimaginable sin against our very selves.
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God grants us holiness, saintliness
It is a process. A lifelong process.
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We, too, are sent ahead of Jesus
So that when he enters the life of someone, they already have some knowledge of him, as they have come to know him a little bit through us.
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The Law leads us away from God
The Law, perhaps, had become an end in itself.
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There are lessons to be learned in Jonah’s adventures and the prayer Jesus taught us
Jonah was slow to understand; sometimes, perhaps, we are, too. This prayer of Jesus has much to give us. We have much to receive.
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Spiritual works are about spiritual benefits — now showing off
Surely, St. Paul would say that one does good because they truly have received grace and that grace has been effective within them.
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