Blessings like your Guardian Angel

Their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.  We should  honor our guardian angels, those spiritual beings who both gaze on the Lord in worship and watch over us to protect us.  We might look at guardian angels as the subject of bedtime...

Lord, make me a force for unity

Have in you the same attitude that is also in Christ Jesus. Time for a quiz!   What will make Paul’s joy “complete”?   What does humility produce in our relationships ?   What does Paul think is a key feature of the Church?   If you answered unity in Christ to all...

They were afraid to ask him

They were afraid to ask him. Jesus must have really scared the apostles when he told them that he would suffer, be rejected by the elders, and be killed.   Even though they couldn’t fully understand what he meant, they caught his ominous tone, and that frightened...

I saw you under the fig tree

I saw you under the fig tree. What was going through Nathanael’s mind as he sat under that fig tree?   Being familiar with Scripture, he may have recalled the words of Micah, where the prophet promises that “they shall all sit . . . under their own fig trees,...

Lord, I delight in you

The Lord takes delight in his people.  “Lord, I am overwhelmed by these words.   I know that you made me.   I can even accept that you love me because you love everything you made.   But to hear that you take delight in me?   That’s more than I ever expected!   It’s...

They set out

They set out. Pause for a few minutes right now and imagine that you are among the Twelve as Jesus is giving them power and authority to cast out demons and cure diseases.   Picture him looking you right in the eye and saying,  “Go. Proclaim the kingdom of God.   Heal...

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