“Listen to instruction and grow wise, do not reject it! Happy the one who listens to me, attending daily at my gates, keeping watch at my doorposts…”
Question for Meditation: Take time over the break to truly listen.
Month: December 2020
“When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him; the obedience is up to you.”
Question for Meditation: What is God calling you to? How will you answer?
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
Question for Meditation: Who do you imitate, and who imitates you?
“Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.”
Question for Meditation: Take a minute today to perform a loving gesture.
“Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.”
–Question for Meditation: What are you devoted to?
“Choice leads to choicelessness, in the best way. It leads to genuine obligation, which is never experienced as coercive when it is truly genuine.”
Question for Meditation: What do you feel genuinely obliged to?
“Holiness consists in one thing: to do God’s will, as He wills it, because He wills it.”
Question for Meditation: What is God’s will for you?
“Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.”
Question for Meditation: What purpose greater than yourself do you want to serve?
“Mary said, ‘Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.’”
Question for Meditation: What was the last “yes” you gave to someone asking something of you?
“The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.”
Question for Meditation: How much uncertainty can you tolerate?
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