roots
What lies below the surface that no one else can see? If my thoughts floated in a fishbowl would they be shallow, noisy, distracted surface dwellers? Or would they be able to be still, go deep, and tap into the true source of Life and Strength? It takes time to grow an interior life, time to form habits of redirecting our thinking to bring our thoughts before the Light of God. Times of exterior silence give us opportunity to examine the depth of our interior life. So often we
lap
*A picture paints a thousand words. Place yourself in this one. Imagine the Father eternally holding, supporting you on His lap, lovingly breathing the Holy Spirit into you, even in your darkest hour. The Blessed Mother is seen here as well, cuddling, nurturing, giving sustenance from Her own being. Why ever worry? They've got us! “Do not fear: I am with you; do not be anxious: I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right h
woa!
Picture this...a room as big as two football fields filled with hundreds and hundreds of six-foot round tables with eight chairs at each table. That’s a lot of folks--3,800 to be precise. I had never seen that many people sit down all at once to eat. As I stared across the cavernous room wondering how much time, food and energy it took to feed this extremely large crowd, I heard the Lord whisper in my ear… “This is nothin! I fed at least four times this many--TWICE! Out of a
new dawn
We arrived in darkness, not knowing what to expect, who or what we would find. Upon awakening, it became clear that we were on the edge of something big, monumentally bigger than any one of us. As the dawn began to break, in all of its subtle and varied colors that paint the horizon with the glow of hope, it gave way to glorious splendor. Our eyes began to focus and then behold the vastness of the landscape that awaits us. It was as if we were seeing the Grand Canyon for the
