• Take Courage

    Do not let your heart be troubled, for I am with you. When I am faced with fear and anxiety, the Lord says, “take courage”. I realize for me to have courage is to turn further toward God and follow Him; to follow His voice, His lead, His command. He is the one who has…

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  • The Words I Speak

    Words are powerful things, they can either lift up or tear down, they can encourage or discourage, they can bring peace or discord, words are important. They can be uttered in haste with little thought or be deliberate with concern. It is definitely something I strive to work on daily; to stay close to the…

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  • Do not let your heart be troubled, John 14:1, these are the words the Lord spoke to me while I was in prayer last week. It was the last thing I had written in my journal after spending an hour in the chapel. He spoke to me in the silence, where I could hear the…

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  • Our Father

    Our Father, the first words Jesus taught His Apostles, His Followers, when they asked how to pray. Jesus withdrew to pray to His Father in secret, but they had a longing in their hearts for the words. The first two words are striking, Our Father – a Father to all, a Father that is always…

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  • Surrender

    The Lord has whispered a word to me – “surrender”. A word that leads me into an array of emotions. There is fear of what the Lord is asking, a fear of the unknown, of what is to come; there is a sense of self-discipline that is needed to enter into a greater time of…

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  • Choose Love

    I don’t remember when Our Lady of Kibeho, the Marian Apparition in Rwanda became known to me. Perhaps I happened upon it in my reading of Marian Apparitions around the world. I knew little about the genocide that took place halfway around the world, I do remember reading a tiny article in the newspaper about…

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  • My daughter was Confirmed last weekend, and due to the pandemic and the postponement of the first date, it fell on Pentecost Sunday. The day we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles all those years ago. The Lord died a most cruel death and rose again on the third day, where…

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  • A Simple Life

    A simple life is a good life. To focus on what brings joy and peace and spend time there. To rediscover the lost things that I had put away and revisit them. Now is the time to pick up that novel that I have wanted to read, to immerse myself in the classic film that…

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  • Watch and Pray

    Watch and pray, these are the words that echo in my mind, watch and pray, so simple but difficult at the same time. When I want to share my deep pain that I am experiencing, the Lord says, watch and pray. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, saves those whose spirit is crushed. Psalm…

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  • Memories are a wonderful way to bring a spark of joy in, and experience again the value of a moment. This was my Mother’s Day last weekend when my husband brought out the 2005 family movie DVD that combined a lot of short clips from our video recorder. It was quite the year of travel…

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