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This is a vision without which, we are blind and lifeless. It is the vision of one who sees us as we are and envisions our world from the inside out and the outside in. 

We must return from time to time to that place in the geography of the land or that of our hearts where we revisit the ancient stones and remember what we ought to have never forgotten.

Photo by Gregory Culmer on Unsplash Don't let your bucket list go empty . Keep things moving out, but replace them regularly. Plan to die with some things undone for others to take up and do. Never stop looking forward. Eventually, your gaze will be firmly fixed on the heavenly prize, but the path to Heaven passes through…

  You may be moving into some new, unknown, precarious, and frightening territory in your life. You are proceeding with caution and trepidation. It is a place where you must go, but you do not know the terrain or the hidden agendas of these new days … All you know is Who is with you…

  Master of Isabella di Chiaromonte, active 1455-1469 In times of decline, we seek the Divine Incline.Perceived or received, something declines for us,And lofty edifices of our pride sink low.  Yet we …The "we" that is truly "us …"Shall not decline His inclination toward restoration. Poor and needy When greedy fires are consuming the underbrush of…

We set aside our preferences for the good of others because that good is in the heart of the One to whom we have pledged our total loyalty

We were never called to be merely ordinary. We were called, fashioned, and equipped to do the one job no one else in the world can do: be ourselves under God in a world that needs the uniqueness we have to offer.

  Sometimes you just have to travel light and walk on tiptoe … … like a cat … … or a lamb … "Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves. Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road." –…