Tagged: Fruits of the Spirit
Here's some stories to fill you with joy in this Lent of the Year of Mercy: Fruits of the Spirit by Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB – When I think of the Fruits of the Spirit I compare them to a prism in the window. When sunlight enters in and bends as it exits, a rainbow...
featured in NewEvangelizers,com Whether the holidays bring us closer to our family or we still keep our distance, they are always our family. Some family members are more loveable than others. We are more loveable to some of them than to others. But we are family. We struggle with accepting them as they are while...
Is our heart an open cup or half closed and already full? Is it a cup of bitterness? Suspicion? Self-absorption? God loves us more than we can imagine. He wants us to know him intimately. He wants to express his love for us by giving us more and more of himself—all that we can hold...
Years ago a Bible study friend of mine talked about going shopping with Lenore. Who was Lenore? Her guardian angel. How did she know her name? She asked her. So I began to ask my guardian angel what her name was. After several years with no results, I started calling her Grace. If she didn’t...
The upstairs windows are washed, and the glass and crystal knick-knacks on the top of the sash and sill have been wiped off. Looking out, I notice the seventy-foot maple in the neighbor’s yard is tipped in dark red. Within a week, it will flash its fall color, a glowing dark-orange. In front of the...