Prayer for Longing Unrestrained

I ask you, Lord Jesus, to develop in me, your lover, an immeasurable urge towards you, an affection that is unbounded, a longing that is unrestrained, a fervor that throws discretion to the winds! The more worthwhile our love for you, all the more pressing does it become. Reason...
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Living Each Day With Gratitude

Nature’s beauty can be easily missed. Louie Schwartzberg’s time-lapse photography, accompanied by words from a child and Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on living a life of gratitude every day. Cultivating a response of gratefulness...
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Love Alone Overcomes Fear

It is shocking to think how much the world has changed in such a brief time. Each of us has had our lives and communities disrupted. Of course, I am here in this with you. I feel that I’m in no position to tell you how to feel or how to think, but there are a few things that come...
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Delight — A Christmas Poem

Stand in the lowly place. See Jesus standing there. Walk with him. Be His companion in despair. Walk with the despised, the disposable, the left out, And see them face, to face. Delight in full kinship with the other. Love your fellow man. Love them all. The feeling is mutual....
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Heart and Soul

In my garden grows a Heart and Soul to which I must attend, A delightful herb that will endure: constant and unfailing. Bringing forth a welcome aroma that will never end, Its sweet and fragrant perfume is fresh each morning. Tend the Heart and Soul in this sacred place, That it...
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