“Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.”
Question for Meditation: What hardships have shaped you?
Month: November 2017
“Pilgrimage in its truest sense is religiously motivated travel for the purpose of meeting and experiencing God with hopes of being shaped and changed by the encounter.”
Question for Meditation: When was the last time you hoped for a change within yourself?
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
Question for Meditation: How have you changed over time?
“Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.”
Question for Meditation: Have you ever encountered an event or person that changed the direction of your life?
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
Question for Meditation: How would you like to continually grow?
“In a word, spiritual formation requires adventure.”
Question for Meditation: Are you willing to go on a spiritual adventure?
“And with a voice of astonishing discovery, he says, ‘And the light… is better… than the darkness.'”
Question for Meditation: When have you experienced going from darkness to light?
“The gospel is not about being good, it is about being rescued. It is not about being safe, it is about being saved.”
Question for Meditation: How does the thought of being saved cause you to act?
“First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.”
Question for Meditation: Where does your love lead you?
“Through this love, all that he once performed with dread, he will now begin to observe without effort, as though naturally, from habit, no longer out of fear of hell, but out of love for Christ, good habit and delight in virtue.”
Question for Meditation: What is a good habit you can encourage yourself in today?
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