As a person grows up they want to liberate themselves and become free and adult
crooked lines
God delights in writing straight with the crooked lines of our lives.
to follow
These children have nothing. But the looks on their faces show that they not only have enough, they have everything.
horizon shifting
Stress is the consequence and the symptom of a loss of perspective.
let’s talk
“Come now, let us talk this over,
says the Lord.”
forgiving makes sense
Forgiving someone who hurt you isn’t about excusing the other person’s behaviour.
ups and downs
The Transfiguration is an event that opens a door between earthly ordinariness and divine eternity.
Lectio Divina
There is one particular way of listening to what the Lord wishes to tell us. We call it Lectio Divina
just be perfect
What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
in recovery
This realisation is precisely what it means to live in right relationship with God and with self.
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signs please God
It was the opening of today’s gospel that prompted me to seek signs: This is a wicked generation; it is asking for a sign.
Our Father
a father taught his child to pray this prayer especially in the middle of the night when the child woke and felt sad or anxious.
just do it
I received a letter from the bishop of Christchurch (Denis Hanrahan) which began: Dear John, I am happy to inform you
tempted ?
Temptation is usually understood as an impulse to choose wrong over right, bad over evil, unhealthy over healthy
walking the talk
First I prayed that the suffering would quickly and magically disappear.










