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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Catholicism | Lenten Reflections | prayer
I remember a stage in my early teenage years when my bedroom frequently looked as if there had been an explosion of some sort, and it drove my mom nuts! One Saturday morning, I “cleaned” my room, and she made it crystal clear that it did not meet her standards. I cleared a straight path from my bed to the door, quoted a version of these very words from The Gospel of John, and showed her how I had clearly made “a straight way for the Lord.” She assured me he was going to need a much wider path. The Perspective of a Wise Mom My mom’s assurance is true today! I realize I don’t always make the path to my heart straight or wide. I need to give God room to come into my heart and do His mighty works of mercy. I have all kinds of things in the way that make His way tricky to maneuver. I make Him wind His way around jealousy and pride and selfishness. The path hooks to the left when I toss in impatience and judgmental thinking. The way really goes sideways when control, bitterness, and gossip get tossed into the mix.
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Sheri Wohlfert shares a rainy-day reminder of surrender and gratitude.
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family life | sharing the gospel | teaching virtue
What if gossiping didn't have a negative meaning? What if it were a way to spread the Good News? I heard a phrase several weeks ago and it has stuck like glue. I’ve been taking my time trying to figure out what I was supposed to do with it and today it all came together. The phrase is: go forth and gossip the Gospel! Given the fact that gossip has a typically negative meaning and is often something Christians try to avoid, it needed some thought.
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