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Author: Laurie Gudim

All Souls Day

November 2, 2017 4 Comments

Today, on All Souls Day I pray a litany, asking all these people to be with me, to stand beside me, in the year ahead.

An Ending

October 26, 2017 No Comments

Christ will be everywhere he was before and maybe in some new places as well.

Jesus the Messiah

October 19, 2017 No Comments

Mostly I think about fighting, about triumphing over evil, about the conquering army that will finally usher in Righteousness. I want to be in that army, waving my cudgel with the best of them.

Daring to Pray

October 12, 2017 4 Comments

I dare an open moment, an expectant silence. I dare to believe that I matter, that God has many things that God would say to me. I dare to believe that God yearns to say them.

The rock foundation that is built in hearing and acting on the word of Christ is another one of Jesus’ upside down images. It is not some inner steel that keeps out the floods and wind. It is instead a profound vulnerability.

Temples of the Holy Spirit

September 28, 2017 No Comments

All the people I meet, every day, are temples. It is our true nature to be receptacles of the living breath of God. The Holy Spirit roosts in each one of us, speaks the language of each one of us, shares the sorrows, terrors and joys of each one of us

He Got Up and Followed Him

September 21, 2017 No Comments

“He got up and followed him.” This bit of the story of Matthew the tax collector who left his booth to become one of Jesus’ disciples rings like a gong in my soul today.