I remember a fellow I once knew when I was much younger. He stole a watch from a fellow friend but also claimed to believe in God. So one day, in casual conversation, I asked him, ”How can you believe in God and still steal?” He didn’t deny the theft, instead he answered, “I believe […]
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A few weeks ago, someone called a local radio station and asked the host if their pets would go to heaven. In a rather disdaining voice, the host said, “No. Your pets do not go to heaven.” I wondered if he’d actually ever read the bible scriptures which do not negate the fact of pets […]
A long time ago I opened my heart up to a priest of the Lord about how stressed I was in my life, about how, even though I tried to follow God and goodness, that I had no peace. He told me, “Michele, when you truly become a woman of prayer, all your dreams of […]
From a letter that John Henry Newman wrote to his mother on the death of his father. ‘Him’ refers to his father who’d just died: “…The days will come, when one after another, we shall drop away like leaves from the tree. But, being as we trust in Christ, we shall meet one and all […]
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