Open Our Lips
What a beautiful reminder from Monica: If you too long for a renewed heart, if this day or season feels hard, open your lips in praise, and let the Spirit of God make you new.
What a beautiful reminder from Monica: If you too long for a renewed heart, if this day or season feels hard, open your lips in praise, and let the Spirit of God make you new.
Jesus is standing waiting for me at the wedding altar in this moment, but He was also there yesterday, last week, two years ago, ten years ago, every day, every moment of my life beginning at my baptism.
He is calling us to Him, one step at a time. We can eagerly take each step trusting that He is worth the risk and will catch us if we fall.
De shares the reminder she received from the Lord: I need not look exteriorly in a moment of emotional suffering. The relief I need will be found interiorly, when I seek His abiding Presence in the heart of my heart.
Marian shares a very real experience of the psalmist's longing: for you my soul is thirsting. My body pines for you like a dry, weary land without water.
Monica gives an important reminder that, "the daily demands of our lives can point us to eternity when rightly ordered for the Glory of God."
Megan reminds us that we can truly trust Jesus to provide for our needs, especially those deeper spiritual needs that we might not know we have!
All God asks is for our yes - our willing consent to His call, even when what is asked of us may trouble us or may seem impossible.
De reflects on new fruit the Lord is cultivating and bringing forth from her time spent on "forced retreat" (quarantine).
Part of our inheritance in Christ is sharing in His priestly and sacred work of offering everything we do, think, say, create, love etc. back to God on the altars of the seemingly ordinary lives we are living. What a calling!