When we ask God to provide for our needs, we implicitly recognize his existence and authority in our lives. It is in the asking that faith grows. By making the effort, taking the time, it becomes clear that when your needs are met it was God’s handiwork and not yours, or luck, or anything else. […]
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Lord, may Your patience with me be a motivation and a source of growth in my patience with others.
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The man who fails to fulfill God’s will is idle,and his future will be dismal unless he embraces God’s will. For me that idleness led to drinking. At least today I have replaced the idleness with searching for God’s will. I can only imagine the joy when I find it.
God is great and great is his love. May your will be done in my life so that I can become all that you created me to be.
“In the depths of his conscience, man detects a law, which he does not impose upon himself, but which holds him to obedience. Always summoning him to love good and avoid evil, the voice of conscience when necessary speaks to his heart: do this, shun that. For man has in his heart a law written
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Love-filled remorse implies a bending of my will affectionately toward the other. This is a form a self-giving love that we can all achieve at any moment of our lives. Practice contrition
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It is too easy, and common, for us to think that our way is the only way, or the best way.When someone does or thinks something that is different we question and at times we become condescending.Since our way is the only way the approach that God wants us to take presents a crisis of
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Lord, may everything I do begin with your inspiration, continue with your help, and reach perfection with your guidance.
We know that each of our gifts says something about the God who gave them and that taken all together they help open our minds to God’s overwhelming generosity and to God’s plans for us. Count your gifts. Count your blessings. Be grateful for them and spend the rest of the day happy.
