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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
At this moment in time, we may feel like sheltering with Elijah in a cave on “the mountain of God, Horeb.” Or fleeing from God’s difficult work with Jonah on a ship to Tarshish (even a whale’s belly might sound appealing right now). Or hunkering down with the disciples in a locked upper room, discouraged and confused.
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I recently read Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture. It had been on my list for a while, and it’s one of those rich classics that immediately gets you asking yourself, why did it take me so long to read this?! I regularly find myself considering the implications of his central theme: we are made to be contemplative beings, people poised in a posture of wonder as we continually ponder God and ultimate reality — the most real, most essential things. In short, he describes “leisure” as the space that we cultivate — physical, mental, spiritual — to live in a way that allows such ongoing contemplation and wonder.
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I call upon you; answer me, O God. Turn your ear to me; hear my speech. (Psalm 17:6)
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Jason Weirich challenges men to find the strength to be the type of man they are capable of being, and women to support their husbands as they face that challenge.
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Late one Friday afternoon, four-year-old Joe opened his bedroom door, ran through the hallway, careened down the stairs, and practically flew out the front door, repeating, “My daddy’s home! My daddy’s home!” For years, Joe kept a bag packed with a flashlight, books, underwear, socks, and pajamas underneath his bed — just in case daddy would take him camping. Joe, and his three brothers, loved the call of adventure in the wilderness, the nearest park, or the backyard. But most evenings, you would find all four boys “camping” in their bedroom, listening intently to my husband, Mike, read and discuss stories of adventure, filled with heroes and villains: The Hardy Boys, The Lord of the Rings, Encyclopedia Brown, The Chronicles of Narnia, and more. Undoubtedly, evening storytelling was the boys’ favorite time of the day and a most cherished part of their childhood.
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My 3-year-old has been one of my best spiritual teachers. Becoming a mother has given me new insight into Jesus’s words: “Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,” (Matthew 18:2-4). Her natural curiosity and desire to learn make her humble and attentive. She greets the world with awe and wonder. Her faith in me is unwavering. She knows, without a doubt, that she is worthy of love.
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