While I busy myself, beating at the wind, You, My Lord, are content with a Cross; hands bleeding and unbusy, nailed to Your Father’s Will, unresisting and uncomplaining.
Silence my hurried breathlessness. Be all stillness. I surrender all.
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Rhythm of My Life
Thoughts from the Quiet:
If I can’t find my balance, Lord, at least help me set a rhythm to my life. Let me return to You each day as though I’d never been away. Flow in upon me, wash over me and carry away the debris of daily life. Flotsam and jetsam too much for me, float like foam upon your waves. My sands pristine and ready for tomorrow. With eyes of faith, I see Your footprints on the shore.
I wrote these lines this morning and just a bit ago thanks to the Anchoress found this from Zoe at InsideCatholic.com that goes beyond my thoughts.
From Flannery O’Connor’s letter to Alfred Corn on May 30, 1962:
Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It’s there, even when he can’t see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon in college. Learn what you can, but cultivate Christian scepticism. It will keep you free — not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your intellect or the intellects of those around you.
That Your Joy May Be Full!
Good Morning, Everyone! This is a good day, even particularly in a troubled world, to praise the Lord.
As the day begins, this antiphon from today’s Office of Readings sounds in God’s ear, rising from the lips of those praying around the world.
“Lord, You know the burden of my sorrow.”
God’s response is, “Ask that you may receive and your joy will be full.”
Prayer:
“Rise up Lord in defense of Your people. Do not hide Your Face from our
troubles.”
Lenten Reading Plan – Day 6 – Mar 3
Day6 Church Fathers Lenten Reading Plan 3/3/09
St. Ignatius of Antioch: Letter to the Magnesians: complete
Day 6 Lite Version
St. Ignatius of Antioch: Letter To the Magnesians: 1-5
Compilation of Lenten readings
Printer-Friendly Version of Outline: Church Fathers Lenten Reading Plan PDF
Wake Up and Pray
No one can stop you from praying; not the liberals, the progressives,as they call themselves, not the brights, no government demagogue or Board of Education. Wake up America! God is waiting for an honest conversation. Pray without ceasing…. and no less! Who will stop your inner dialogue? Who will monitor your thoughts? Who will censor your constant bombardment of the Divine with the entreaty that His Will be done?
Do it, America! Your life depends on it. Your children deserve it. For your own sake, your God demands it. God is not an afterthought, waiting for you to solve your problems. God is the prime-mover, the beginning and the end.
If my people, upon whom my name has been pronounced, humble themselves and pray, and seek my presence and turn from their evil ways, I will hear them from heaven and pardon their sins and revive their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
Lenten Reading Plan – Day 5- Mar 2
Day5 Church Fathers Lenten Reading Plan 3/2/09
St Ignatius of Antoch: Letter to the Ephesians: complete
Day 5 Lite Version
St. Ignatius of Antioch: Letter to the Ephesians:15-21
Compilation of Lenten readings
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Be Holy! 