Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...
I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.
Hurry always empties a soul.
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we...
Thanksgiving creates abundance.
How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary?
That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God.
The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God. . . . God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness.
So now we pause. Still. Ponder. Hush. Wait. Each day of Advent, He gives you the gift of time, so you have time to be still and wait. Wait for the coming of the God in the manger who makes Himself bre...
When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we se...
I am blessed. I can bless.
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid night...
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. Sarah Ban Breathnach
The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.