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Category: Speaking to the Soul

Speaking to the Soul: Bottle My Tears

July 27, 2015 No Comments

Today may not contain our most desperate hour, but it’s still a good time to get to know the God of comfort and refuge who is there when we need him.

Speaking to the Soul: Stormy seas

July 26, 2015 2 Comments

The feeding of the multitude and Jesus’s path across the stormy seas are told as one story for a reason. On one side of the sea the multitude is fed and on the other side of the sea Jesus is revealed as one who transcends limits. In between is the sea filled with our confusion, our doubt, our insistence that we not be shaken too much in our understanding

Speaking to the Soul: St James the Greater

July 25, 2015 No Comments

The disciples had no idea where the simple words “Come follow me” could lead them but they followed anyway. The Jesus way was a life changing internal and spiritual journey that would take a lifetime.

Speaking to the Soul: Smoothing it Over

July 24, 2015 No Comments

How will our conflicts and factions look in hindsight? Hopefully like they do in the book of Acts.

Speaking to the Soul: Could It Be?

July 23, 2015 3 Comments

Cleansing the heart by faith happens not through our effort but through God’s. The Holy Spirit moves within us, and we recognize that at the very center of our being is our true Beloved, is Christ. In relationship with him we willingly die so that our Love can live through us.

Speaking to the Soul: Beautiful Promises

July 22, 2015 No Comments

How can holding onto God’s promises change our lives and the lives of generations to come?

Speaking to the Soul: Come to the Feast

July 21, 2015 No Comments

John 6: 1-21 In a world starving for fulfilment, Jesus sets a table of love every day. Yet the bread of life is passed over

Speaking to the Soul: Failing at Faith

July 20, 2015 No Comments

In the gospel of Matthew 14: 22-32, the miracle is not that Jesus walks on water, but that Peter even tries. If you have ever

Speaking to the Soul: a living sacrifice

July 19, 2015 2 Comments

What is the unique feature of your seemingly defective spiritual anatomy (that might actually be your most beautiful gift to God), that you can place on the altar the next time you hear this bidding in the Offertory?

Speaking to the Soul: Learning from history

July 18, 2015 No Comments

Eventually he would write a book, A Brief Description of the Destruction of the Indies, describing the activities and tortures the natives had experienced at the hands of the Spanish. He wanted to create towns where natives and Spaniards could live side-by-side and with equality for both as a form of reparation.