“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.
Category: Obedience
“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?
“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?
“The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.”
Question for Meditation: How much uncertainty can you tolerate?
“We are what we are willing to learn.”
Question for Meditation: What are you willing to learn?
“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
Question for Meditation: Who do you trust?
“Obedience is a blessing to be shown by all, not only to the abbot but also to one another as brothers, since we know that it is by this way of obedience that we go to God.”
Question for Meditation: How can you be obedient to your brother or sister today?
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