Unexpected Smiles

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;  the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.                                                          […]

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Stumbling

I stumbled a few days ago.  I was investigating a grotto that I pass almost every day on the route to my office.  It stands at the point of an overgrown wooded lot.  Someone makes sure the grass doesn’t over take the grotto.  The back of it faces an intersection of 4 streets and in […]

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Smallness

Smallness is the opposite of bigness.  At some point in time, we notice our smallness and lately I have been feeling the smallness of life.  Maybe you can relate? This year I will celebrate a big birthday.  It’s an age where people talk about their approaching retirement and their dreams for those retirement years.  As […]

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Peter, Prayer, Betrayal, and Arrest

Matthew 26:31-56 Then Jesus said to them, “You will all become deserters because of me this night; for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd,     and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ 32 But after I am raised up, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”  Peter said to him, “Though all become […]

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Fear and Trust

God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with […]

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