Compliments befuddle me, honors don’t humble me… they humiliate me! Singled out I want to say, “My hair’s a mess, I should have worn a dress, don’t look at me, don’t give me this, I don’t deserve it.” Like Paul, […]
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Burning Bushes All Around
Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. ~ Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B Ordinary holiness, a blessed existence, a consciousness of the presence of […]
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She cheated me. She lied to me. She made me look like a fool with my new partners. I’m a lawyer and had no contract and hate myself for the oversight but I had tried so hard to please her, […]
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it. ~ Margaret Thatcher Do what you […]
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Like putting on a your life vest before a child’s. Like taking a plank from your own eye before a splinter in another’s. Like getting a strong foothold before reaching out to help someone, a good grasp before offering to […]
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