Being generous also means sharing our gifts & abilities . Not all of us are blessed by God with the same gifts & talents, but all are blessed. In the days of Jesus, a ” talent” was a coin that represented a lot of Roman currency. Each of the gifts that God betsowed upon you [...]
Once again, the Holy Spirit tells me what I NEED to know, not what I want to hear! Today’s meditation by our Presiding Bishop deals with the ” Total Ministry” of the baptized. By virtue of our baptism, all Christians are ministers. Look in our Prayer Book in the Catechism, and note that the ministry [...]
It’s that time of year again….soon I must present my spiritual autobiography to my EfM seminar group. Thankfully I still have two more weeks to polish this years’ version of my spiritual autobiography, but its gonna be very different from the past two years’ autobiographies. I’ve grown a lot since last summer & a lot [...]
I am blessed with the most amazing spiritual director ever! Today he assigned me ” homework” . Yep, homework. Bob+ asked me to pray Psalm 121 daily & ask God to help me put my TOTAL trust in God. he said that some of the spiritual /emotional issues I’ve been experiencing is really bringing to [...]
No kidding: I have the best doggone spiritual director ever! :O) Fr Bob is a retired priest in my Diocese. We met approximately one year ago at the suggestion of a mutual clergy friend of ours. At this time last year there was a lot of uncertainty in my life & it was thought to [...]
”It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~e.e. cummings Amen. I love e.e. cummings’ poetry. This quote , in particular, really * speaks* to my soul. As I’ve said before, I’ve spent much of my life trying to be that ” square peg in a round hole” & finally I [...]
The Christian life is not easy. I REALLY do not trust those churches who promise ” warm fuzzies” & a quick fix. Life isn’t all” warm fuzzies” in general & surely a life centered on Christ is not meant to be easy, either. To use an image from the Holy Friday Stations of the Cross, [...]
Wishing for, through what is no fault of one’s own, one cannot have totally sucks! I am not to blame. But I can control my reaction & I confess that I am NOT doing well with envy-control as of late. I’m trying hard to be philosophical about this situation but am failing miserably. Envy isn’t [...]
I’m Episcopalian & very proud of my high-Church Anglo-Catholic leanings. But today I did something that I was ready to do & should have done months ago. But , as we learned in Cursillio, the walk of faith occurs in God’s Time, not ours. And today was God’s time for me to openly embrace the [...]
More than one person has told me I have a vocation as a Deacon. I am just a layperson, one whose ministry I am still trying to figure out. But I’ve had more than one person think I’m a deacon or PRIEST…and these are folks who really do not know me too well. Wow…is this another personal [...]
