To fail to sing is to give darkness a place in your soul, to wallow in the defeat you're trying to escape.
01765 – Don’t Fail to Sing!
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01733 – Doing Things From Your Soul
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
01658 – Precious Soul
Consider how precious a soul must be, when both God and the devil are after it.
01653 – We All Need Hope
We all need hope. No sparkling promises or wishes. No well laid intentions or plans. Hope. Four letters. Four letters that carry the weight of our whole world and all of our life hidden in the depth of their meaning. Whether we are waiting on a check to arrive, a door...
01637 – Love: The Soul of Christian Existence
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is...
01567 – Avoidance is the Goal
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
01552 – Focus on What Matters
Poet Ranier Maria Rilke points us in the right direction when he says, "The more the soul praises, the stronger it grows." Rilke is suggesting that praise is about the condition of our soul, not the circumstances of our days. Gratitude strengthens our soul by focusing...
01481 – Help Someone’s Soul Heal
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
01463 – Training & Expanding One’s Soul
It isn’t a bit surprising that you find the Psalms and even your own attempts to develop personal prayer an ‘exercise’ rather than an ‘experience.’ One has to make up one’s mind to submit to training, including the drudgery of training; nor is one’s spiritual state...
01446 – Musical Training: A Potent Instrument
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.