“Believe God’s love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.”
Question for Meditation: What is your rock?
Category: Stability
“Authority, stability, and a life of relationships within the family constitute the foundations for freedom, security, and fraternity within society… Family life is an initiation into life in society.”
Question for Meditation: What did you learn from your family?
“Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
Question for Meditation: What do you have that you treasure?
“Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”
Question for Meditation: How do you share how you have defined yourself?
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
Question for Meditation: How do you define yourself?
“I want to live until I die.”
Question for Meditation: What do you picture when you hear this statement?
“Tell them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, ready to share, thus accumulating as treasure a good foundation for the future, so as to win the life that is true life.”
Question for Meditation: How do you build a foundation for your life?
“The more that we allow our hearts to expand to love, deeply appreciate, and feel inextricably tied to the places, things and people of this world, the more we are likely to take a stand on behalf of what we value.”
Question for Meditation: What do you value?
“Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.”
Question for Meditation: Why do you seek depth?
“When the wind blows, the grass bends.”
Question for Meditation: How do you need to bend to stay rooted?
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