Unanswered prayers..
“A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God’s power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.”
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Trusting more in God
Finding Joy in Suffering
TKC!Please see the video link to my talk to the St. Luke’s Walking with Purpose ladies this morning. The topic was on “Finding Joy in Suffering”, inspired by St. Therese of Lisieux.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/179EqyyA1bjyJylwa_iLJ3681r5VvV0DW/view?usp=sharing
God bless,Fr. Michael Sliney, LC
Christian reactions…
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.” Viktor Frankl
Controlling your reactions
Singing with God
“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” – Mark Twain
Birds singing in a thorn bush
Details in the home
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” (Louisa May Alcott)
Hot chocolate by the fireplace, a homemade apple pie, a nice flower decoration on the table, an advent wreath as the center piece…it’s the simple things that go a long way in a family’s happy hearth!
