Beloved

Have you noticed the word “beloved” in your Bible.   The Church included a way of expressing Paul’s relationship with his young disciple, Timothy, as “beloved”.   Timothy held a special place in Paul’s heart, more like that of “a child with a...

Teach Me Lord

He stepped forward and touched the coffin.  Caught doing something nice.   So read the words on an award that teachers like to present to their students—an award given in the hope that the act of kindness being rewarded was a natural, rather than a solicited,...

Lord, I trust in you

I did not consider myself worthy to come to you. You have probably heard the stereotype about men being unwilling to ask for directions.   But there’s likely some truth in it for both genders.   We all like to be in control.   Some of us would rather go into a...

Every tree is known by its own fruit

Every tree is known by its own fruit.  “Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are.”   This old adage has much gospel truth within it.   In fact, today’s reading about fruit trees says something very similar.   How and where you are rooted show the...

Deepen my roots of faith, Lord

As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, rooted in him. St. Paul encourages us to remain rooted in Jesus, whatever our circumstances.   But that can be easier said than done.   Here’s one reader’s story about how she and her family sought to do just this...

Come into my heart today

In God be at rest, my soul. A peasant regularly sat at the back of an empty church in Ars, France, gazing at the tabernacle.   When the village priest asked him what he was doing, the peasant replied, “I look at him, and he looks at me.”   What a beautiful...

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