some quotes!
“Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.”
“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”
“It is not enough for me that God has given me grace once, but He must give it always. I ask, that I may receive; and when I have received, I ask again. I am covetous of receiving God’s bounty. He is never slow in giving, nor am I ever weary of receiving. The more I drink, the more thirsty I become.”
- psalm 138
via good news reflections:
Today’s responsorial psalm is a song with the angels. Whenever we praise God, angels sing with us. If we praise God in the midst of difficulties, angels surround us in a chorus that fills the air with their trust in God and their love for us and their holiness. Then, evil spirits won’t stay near us! Why not? Because this trust and love and holiness surrounds us with the presence of Jesus. He is always in the midst of our praise.
via catholic online.
… hold my heart.
open my heart, gently please, so that i can love more and more.
reminds me of the song in your heart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8PBmx9cOjk
may God pour out His grace into your hearts!
As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace. 1 Peter 4:10
Bye bye, again! Off to Dallas, TX!
because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.”
- Romans 5:5
Let us be bearers of hope and love to this world.
we are physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual beings.
don’t forget to take care of your soul, too. you must settle for nothing less than that which is the spirit of joy, of peace, of love.
hope does not disappoint.
it’s really because of hawaii
you know how we jumped off a lot of things?
10 foot cliff, 20 foot cliff, 30 foot cliff, 14,000 feet from a perfectly fine airplanei realize that the way up is hard work, but it isn’t scary
you’ve already committed to it… might as well enjoy the THRILL RIDE! haha but the edge… the edge is TERRIFYING. the edge is the ONLY PLACE where it is truly scary, when you’re looking over the edge and wondering how you got yourself into the mess, when the only way you can move forward is to take a crazy leap of faith.
and so i feel like God was showing me… you’re standing at the edge in so many things in your life. it’s time for you to take that leap of faith…
so i’m leaping. and it’s crazy haha
via dermot wang
yo homies, let’s take that leap of faith
via dailyscripture.net
Tuesday (September 7): “All sought to touch him, for power came forth from him and healed them all”Scripture: Luke 6:12-19
12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray; and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when it was day, he called his disciples, and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles; 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. 17 And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; 18 and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. 19 And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came forth from him and healed them all.
Meditation: What is God’s call on your life? When Jesus embarked on his mission he chose twelve men to be his friends and apostles. In the choice of the twelve, we see a characteristic feature of God’s work: Jesus chose very ordinary people. They were non-professionals, who had no wealth or position. They were chosen from the common people who did ordinary things, had no special education, and no social advantages. Jesus wanted ordinary people who could take an assignment and do it extraordinarily well. He chose these men, not for what they were, but for what they would be capable of becoming under his direction and power. When the Lord calls us to serve, we must not shrug back because we think that we have little or nothing to offer. The Lord takes what ordinary people, like us, can offer and uses it for greatness in his kingdom. Is there anything holding you back from giving yourself unreservedly to God?
Wherever Jesus went the people came to him because they had heard all the things he did. They were hungry for God and desired healing from their afflictions. In faith they pressed upon Jesus to touch him. As they did so power came from Jesus and they were healed. Even demons trembled in the presence of Jesus and left at his rebuke. Jesus offers freedom from the power of sin and oppression to all who seek him with expectant faith. When you hear God’s word and consider all that Jesus did, how do you respond? With doubt or with expectant faith? With skepticism or with confident trust? Ask the Lord to increase your faith in his saving power and grace.
“Lord Jesus Christ, you are the Son of God and the Savior of the world. Inflame my heart with a burning love for you and with an expectant faith in your saving power. Take my life and all that I have as an offering of love for you, who are my All.”
I am a teacher for second graders.
This past week we’ve been learning about facts and opinions.
I said the statement “You are beautiful.” A little girl raised her hand and said it was a fact.
When I told her no she said, “Everybody is beautiful. No matter what, they are beautiful.”
Little kids like that GMH.
Reading this stuff keeps me in check.
