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Oratio: Dear Child
Dear childyou are my belovedin whom I am well pleasedmy love for youhas neither beginning nor endneither limits nor conditionsnothing you do or saycan make me love you moreor lesssince before you were bornuntil long after this moment has passedI love youtake this knowledge with youhold it close to your heartyou are worthyyou are…
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Lectio: Seek First
“Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span? …Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” ~Matthew 6:27, 33-34
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Oratio: Holding On
Shaking apartfrom withinthe Holy Spiritlooses the wheatfrom the chaffleaving nothingthat does not belongto Godit feels like heartbreakit feels like dyingI cling to it allstruggling to hold onand also let goon my knees I pray ~Robert Van Valkenburgh
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Lectio: Continual Prayer
“May my life be a continual prayer, a long act of love.” ~St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
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Oratio: Nowhere Else
The Lord provideswhat I needHis goodness overflowsthough I do not seeHis plannor understandHis waysI know that He loves meHe is my shepherdmy rockmy salvationto Him I place my trustfor I have nowhereelse to turn ~Robert Van Valkenburgh
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Lectio: A Cheerful Giver
“The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” ~2 Corinthians 9:6-7
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Scriptio: Parallel Parking And The Wai Kru Ram Muay
Through an unexpected turn of events, my daughter and I ended up at a Muay Thai Wai Kru seminar today. Muay Thai is a form of pugilistic fighting originating in Thailand wherein participants use punches, kicks, knees, elbows, clinching, and trips to defeat one another. Wai Kru, more officially Wai Kru Ram Muay or ‘war dance saluting…
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Oratio: Loved By You
Godhelp me to knowthat I am lovedto accept that loveand to be a conduitof that loveunto othersto love themas you love mefor they are also lovedas I am lovedby you ~Robert Van Valkenburgh
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Lectio: Power In Gentleness
“God’s power manifests itself in His gentleness.” ~Father Michael-Joseph of St. Thérèse
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Scriptio: I Assume It Was Grace
Thirty days before my nineteenth birthday, I entered rehab. Looking back, I still don’t know how I found the courage to go. At first, I was willing because I had nowhere else to turn. I had no home to speak of. I was barely getting by, working at McDonald’s, making enough money to eat…