Experiencing God in Everyday Ordinary Things: Big Lessons From Little People

The reader might wish to use this book as a daily reflection book, reading one lesson each day. Doing so will allow you to ponder one lesson from her saintly life at a time, so as to absorb the sweetness of her love and the depth of her life. However, you might find it just as beneficial to read several lessons at a time. The reflection and prayer after each lesson make this book a helpful source of daily self-examination and prayer throughout life. You who are parents might also find the lessons of St. Chapter One — Earliest Memories. Chapter Two — A Catholic Household. Chapter Three — Pauline Enters the Carmel.

Chapter Four — First Communion and Confirmation. Chapter Six — Pilgrimage to Rome. Chapter Nine — Life as a Religious Sister. Chapter Ten — Love in the Heart of the Church. Permission to use under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License: John is the beloved Apostle who sought out a deeply personal and intimate relationship with his Savior. Hopefully the writings in this book point us all to a deeply personal and intimate relationship with our God. May John be a model of this intimacy and love. Thomas should inspire us to always return to faith after struggling with doubt. For coming he doubted, doubting he saw, seeing he touched, touching he believed, and believing he shared.

As a Pharisee, Paul severely persecuted the early Christian Church. However, after experiencing a powerful conversion, he went on to become the great evangelist to the gentiles, founding many new communities of believers and writing numerous letters found in Sacred Scripture. He is a model for all as we seek to embrace our calling to spread the Gospel.

However, I must admit that I never fully understood what it was that made her so great, and why she, above so many others, would be considered a Doctor of the Church. Because she was given this title in by arguably the greatest pope in modern history, Saint John Paul the Great, I was drawn to inquire more deeply into her life and virtue. What I discovered is that which has been discovered by so many others since the first publication of her autobiography in The first manuscript of her autobiography included her memories from childhood through the time she made her final vows as a Carmelite sister.

Interestingly, this manuscript shared more than just her memories. Dave received his MAR and M. You can follow him on twitter at Dave Twitter , Facebook: Dave Facebook , Google plus: Dave Google Plus , or read more of his writing at Servants of Grace. Thank God for those who open themselves for the purposes of our Father. Stand aside and know Jesus. Pray that His perfect work is freed from our interference.

Isaiah did not confess his vileness, he was diminished, there was nothing else that would come from his lips before the ultimate, the purity of almighty. Thank you Dave, this is a most serious message for us to hear.

The gift of our Father is peace. In Him we gain confidence as He becomes greater in our lives. We hear much of faith and in this way we come to know it. There is nothing that we bring into His work as Jesus said the Father that dwells in me does the work. So now there are none unworthy because we all are unworthy. Love the Lord our God and become more like Him because He is love. Be strong in Jesus because those without Him suffer violence.

Our testimony then is Jesus as violence assaults us. True, Israel is the specific identification of a people for His Name. All other people are gentiles. There is the Church that is the body of Christ. There are those who are called the children of God. There is the Bride. The difference between the 2 testaments is the promise of God made possible by His sacrifice, His blood.

The New Testament is not a place, it is Spirit. The vine, grown up through Israel is Who the Church is grafted into. There is one God. His name is Jesus. Israel and the Church will worship our Father Who is the image of God.

But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. The Church that is the body of Christ includes both Jew and Gentile. Thank you for your kind words Bob.

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Thank you also for making a thoughtful addition to what I said. Thank you Dave for this wonderful post. Each moment of every ordinary day give us opportunity to walk out who we are in Him. An hour long oration that touches our spirits and blesses us cannot do, either for or against the cause for Christ, what we with our simple lives do every day.

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We can either damage Christ with our lives as a witness or bring others to Him. We are doing either one or the other every moment. Sometimes you want to be dismissive to others who seem unappealing or annoying. Satan has used gadgetry to keep us from the human interaction that touches peoples lives.

The high tech world that we thought would make life easier has sapped us of everything that we once held sacred. I am so blessed and happy that I listened to the Spirit when He told me not to carry a cell phone. I keep an emergency cell in the car and never use one for anything else. All the people in the bible were just people like we are. Thanks Dave for this wonderful godly post. Please silence your ringer. Thank you for your kind words Tess. Thank you also for your thoughtful comments. May the Lord richly bless you and yours.

Understanding the point of the short essay is against self-centered thought and a refocusing toward JESUS alone and focusing on the last paragraph there are more than several words and word phrases used that do not accomplish that goal and instead direct the reader inward rather than toward JESUS.

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It is difficult to write a self-motivational piece of literature without inward directed speech, but our faith, as you point out in your piece, is not about self-motivation. We are… but our faith is not. I tried my best to not use any inward directing words in my second paragraph, call me out if I erred. Also, let the reader understand I agree with the intended lesson of your short essay. I appreciate your intended remarks and note the intended spirit in which they are given.

I would also like for you to note in the first sentence while appealing to you I point the person to God. As I noted already I am pointing people towards God and even indicate that in the last paragraph by pointing people towards Jesus. No need to disagree.

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We often get caught up in our own zeal while communicating a thought concerning scripture and any kind of criticism is often difficult to swallow. Yes, there are not too many ways to discuss the intended audience without pointing them out, especially with motivational speaking or writing as a career.

You will find this difficult in expounding the Gospel message to others in that format. We just have the tendency to let our flesh leak out onto the page, Isa We truly have nothing of our own possession to offer HIM. There is a loving manner and a taunting manner.

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Come let us reason together or, I challenge you to prove. We are blessed by all the aspects of our God revealed through the thoughts shared by the timid and courageous here. We all have sinned. There comes the judgment. Pray to be forgiven not according to our own forgiveness but in the love that forfeits life itself to recover the lost. My son Mark dies age 20 of an epileptic fit on his dads birthday and finds him dead that same day.

What those last two sentences means for me That God has the final say about the timing of when the brides glory is revealed not man. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently: