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  • Layer up with some New Year’s Resolutions

    January 3, 2024 /

    How about clothing yourself in some virtues for this New Year.

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  • Finding growth in barren places

    December 18, 2023 /

    "Deserts and wastelands will bloom and shout for joy." Is 35:2 It doesn't take much of an imagination to see that the prophet is also speaking to the desert landscape of our life.

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    Not this way or that, but something much better

    December 16, 2024

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    December 11, 2020

    Silence that touches souls

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  • The best Advent virtue to practice

    December 11, 2023 /

    It is time to rediscover our sense of childlike wonder!

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    December 23, 2020
  • Healing the wounds in the desert of my soul

    December 11, 2023 /

    To find healing in the present, we need to let God heal the wounds of the past.

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    April 18, 2022

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    April 11, 2021
  • Advent: a time to calm the turbulent waters

    December 4, 2023 /

    Calm the turbulence in your life to see the "glories yet to be revealed."

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    My call? Well, I wanted to be like that man

    April 7, 2025

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    December 18, 2023

    Time for some spiritual excavation

    June 27, 2023
  • Who in the bible is most like me?

    November 27, 2023 /

    Biblical figures have much to teach us, especially if we can identify the parallels between their lives and ours.

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    Discovering A New Chapel of Ease in 2025

    December 30, 2024

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    December 16, 2024

    A new way to pray for others

    April 29, 2024
  • What happens when you fail to grieve?

    November 20, 2023 /

    Grief comes out in many ways. But God will show you the path to true healing.

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    November 17, 2023

    What happens when you enter a new season?

    October 30, 2023

    What makes God the best listener?

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  • Seeing a new heaven and earth

    November 17, 2023 /

    God’s plan is not to abandon the world and its wickedness but restore its original goodness. 

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    Taking off the Armor

    August 1, 2022

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  • Is the feeling of peace reliable in discernment?

    November 13, 2023 /

    A feeling of peace can come from both the good spirit and the enemy. How do you know?

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    Lordy, Lordy

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    January 6, 2025

    A New Image for Good Friday

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  • How to go from lose-lose to win-win?

    November 10, 2023 /

    Reflection for Friday of the 31st Week of Ordinary Time And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently.For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than the children of light. In Stephen Covey’s popular book, “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”, the Fourth Habit – Think Win-Win – is nicely illustrated in the gospel of the dishonest steward (Lk 16:1-8).  Covey explains that Win-Win is a “frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions.”  (see Covey, Win-Win) The parable opens with the dishonest steward about to lose his job.  The master in turn was about to…

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