We have in prayer a gift from God that allows us to approach the throne of the Sovereign of the Universe and make our requests known.
02397 – Prayer: A Gift from God
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02220 – Waiting in Hope
Waiting in hope is an active spiritual practice. It requires a fundamental trust in God's faithfulness and the humility to allow the mystery of God's work to unfold over time.
01732 – Why Does God Allow Suffering?
People sometimes wonder why God would allow so much suffering in our world. Maybe instead we should be wondering why we do.
01667 – Teach Your Child Respect
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.---------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his or her parents will not have true respect for...
01579 – A Blessing Hidden in Our Grief
What to do with our losses? . . . We must mourn our losses. We cannot talk or act them away, but we can shed tears over them and allow ourselves to grieve deeply. To grieve is to allow our losses to tear apart feelings of security and safety and lead us to the painful...
01512 – Every Day is a New Day
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and...
01501 – Claiming Jesus is God
Many otherwise honest and intellectual people will construct a neat bypass around the claim of Jesus to be God. Being people of insight and imagination, they know perfectly well that once to accept such a claim as fact would mean a readjustment of their own purposes...
00122 – Neighbor as Self
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self—to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you...