For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be a time that cannot be forced: nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research…to find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, […]
Category: Everyday Thots
Before you ask God to choose you a spouse, let Him choose your friends
Imagine that you were born in a foreign land and you have been appointed for a special mission since your birth to find your way back to your homeland where your inheritance awaits you. You are also tasked to try and bring as many people as possible back to your homeland – of their own […]
The Gift of Quiet
Increasingly I have found that my soul needs quiet to be well. And I have also found that quiet is a wonderful gift to offer others. When I am at peace and my spirit is quiet and still, I make this invaluable gift of quiet to others who need it, and who are blessed and […]
– St. John Paul II
…All men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
“The Invitation” – by Oriah
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for […]
Pope Francis WYD 2013
“Faith in God’s Son, who became man and who died for me, must make a mess, must disturb us out of our complacency… Please, do not water down the faith… Stir things up, cause confounding, but do not diminish faith in Jesus Christ.”
Our actions speak so loudly they never hear our words.
Knowing who I am is the foundation to knowing the purpose for which I am created. Neither can be accomplished without an intimate relationship with my loving Creator. For it is in being known that I come to know, and it is in being loved by God that I learn to love.
The way He made me
From a journal entry dated 2 November 2010. Sometimes God speaks to me in my own words. God gave me a heart of compassion that is open to be imprinted by life, open to love and being loved. A child’s heart that never loses that implicit trust that young children have A child’s heart that […]
Journey of the Heart 