The church is the church only when it exists for others... The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
03733 – The Church Exists for Others
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03601 – Seeing People as Ordinary?
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
03543 – Saying “Yes” to the Summons
In the stew of everyday problems and ordinary life tasks we gain opportunities to do something about them. This, combined with the cultivation of our talents as we discover them, helps us arrive at our callings. We find ourselves summoned to make something better, to...
02924 – True Restfulness
True restfulness, though, is a form of awareness, a way of being in life. It is living ordinary life with a sense of ease, gratitude, appreciation, peace and prayer. We are restful when ordinary life is enough.
02898 – Facts are Facts
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to the facts.
02730 – Stop and be Grateful!
We are all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.
02704 – Life. Extraordinary. Take Notice.
People dream of escaping their ordinary life, but their life was never ordinary. They simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
02511 – Hardships
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
02468 – Don’t Ask. Help.
Do not ask your childrento strive for extraordinary lives.Such striving may seem admirable,but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life.Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples, and pears.Show them how...
02309 – Every Human Life: Inestimable Value
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.