God Is Love
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Love is mutual, and the way we experience God’s love is often through human love. In our giving and receiving love, God’s love becomes real to us too.
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The Spirit God Gave Us
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We know that Christ remains in us because of the Spirit, and we know the Spirit is with us in the ways it makes itself known. May we trust its presence and look for the Spirit’s work in our lives. May we invite it in, and may we always remain open.
Read MoreWhat We Shall Be
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I can’t predict the future, but if I respond wholeheartedly to life’s events, both good and challenging, I’ll continue to grow into the person God created me to be. What I shall be has not yet been revealed. I do know that when it is revealed I shall be like Christ.
Read MorePeace Be with You
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Finding peace in a troubled world is a serious challenge. However, Christ does not want us to be troubled. Christ offers us peace and shows us what we need to receive that peace – God’s loving Providence and each other.
Read MoreIs There a Perfect Community?
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Community is one of the best parts of our lives but also one of the hardest parts. Why is that? And if relationships are so hard, why do we keep persevering in them?
Read MoreHolding Joy and Sorrow, Palm Sunday Reflection
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Palm Sunday shows us the extremes of human experiences as Jesus is celebrated but then betrayed, condemned, and executed. We see how fast things can change – in this Passion story and in our own lives too. However, through all of life’s joys and sorrows, we can trust that God is with us. And when the intensity of it all feels like too much to hold, God holds us.
Read MoreWhen Darkness Is Coming
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Having a troubled heart is a human experience. It comes from looking darkness in the face and moving into it despite how hard it is. Jesus might not have known how things would work out, but he knew that he could trust the unknown future to a loving God. And so can we.
Read MoreWhy Do We Suffer?
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Brokenness is real, but it is redeemable. As community, we can bring our woundedness together, owning our incompleteness, and drawing near each other. God is present when we come together in our brokenness, God who has chosen to be vulnerable too.
Read MoreHope Does Not Disappoint
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God is present to the reality of who we are, even as God calls us to grow. God is certainly in our midst.
Read MoreSeen, Known, and Loved
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May we journey up to the mountaintop with Jesus and his companions and encounter God too. As Jesus revealed the fullness of who he is, may we reveal the fullness of who we are before God and those closest to us. And may we each hear God proclaim that we are God’s beloved too, because we are.
Read MoreA God of Love, Not Destruction
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God is very close with us always, and in those hard times, God is still there, even when it doesn’t feel like it. God is always talking to us, always trying to catch our attention, to reassure us, to let us know that God’s with us, that God loves us.
Read MoreDo You Belong?
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The more that I, and we, live and grow into the fullness of being to which God calls us, the more we belong to God and ourselves. When we belong like that, we’ll find belonging wherever we go.
Read MoreAll Things to All People
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In these days of burnout, fatigue, and loneliness, how do we resist the temptation to try to be all things to all people? How do we trust that we’re enough because God made us to be enough?
Read MoreThe People Were Astonished
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In this story, the people are astonished. I don’t know about you, but I can’t remember the last time I was astonished by something Jesus said or did – in Scripture or in my life. But I want to feel amazed again! How do I open myself to astonishment, awe, wonder?
Read MoreWhat Kind of Prophet Are You?
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The Kingdom of God is at hand now, in this moment. All around us there are people with illnesses and struggles, people who are burdened by despair and anxiety. We have work to do; there’s still good news to be proclaimed.
Read MoreWhat Are You Looking For?
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In your heart of hearts, what do you desire? What do you want? Figure out what you desire in the depths of your heart, and you know God’s call.
Read MoreEpiphany: Let's Be Stars
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Like the Magi, we have each other as travel companions. Community at its best stands together beneath the night sky, gazing at signs from God, and following where they lead. Where shall we go? Let’s discern together.
Read MoreRelatives, Chosen Families, and All of the Above
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The invitation of this feast of the Holy Family is to celebrate the family of Jesus as well as our own families — our families of origin and/or our chosen ones. We also lift up the wide family of God, the human family of which we’re all a part. Maybe we didn’t choose each other, but we belong to each other anyway.
Read MoreMary Said Yes
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May we pray to have what Mary did that enabled to say yes to God, her audacity and courage and trust. May we, too, stay open to what God asks of us and risk when we’re called. And may we step into that life full of grace.
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