guidance
How do you know where to go and what to do in life? How does God guide you? The ALPHA* course gives great suggestions for discerning God’s direction in our lives. Over the next five weeks I will talk about each suggestion and how, by God’s grace, He has used them in my own life experience to draw me closer to Him. These little gems are known as the five CS’s. Here’s numero uno: Commanding Scripture. God speaks to us through His Holy, divine and inspired word. As Fr. Tadeusz D
tribe
Who’s your TRIBE? Some shave their heads. Some wear Greek letters. Some buy the same car. Some go to the same gym. Some meet together annually, monthly, weekly, daily. Who’s your TRIBE? I was struck when I read this from Hebrews 4:2. “For in fact we have received the Good News just as they did. But the word that they heard did not profit them, for they were not united in faith with those who listened.” To think, we might all hear the same Good News, but unless we are “united
heaven
“We’re all just walking each other to heaven!” --Mary Smith. If that is all we do-- that is a life well lived! So how do we accompany one another along life’s winding roads to the pearly gates? This beautiful Benedictine inspired piece called "Each Day" from the book Always We Begin Again, by John MCQuiston II, is a great place to start: “At the beginning of each day, after we open our eyes to receive the light of that day, As we listen to the voices and sounds that surround
look!
What are you looking for? In the right now? In the new year to come? In life in general? This pause-worthy question is posed to us by Jesus in the very first chapter of the Gospel of John. We read that Jesus, “...turned and saw them (John’s two disciples) following him” and asked this very question. Perhaps Jesus had wandered down a lonely alley to lead them to a quiet place--or even further, out into the desert. We don’t really know. I love that Jesus stopped, turned around
