Faith

SoulScribe on April 13th, 2009

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the death of our Lord and his broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on the way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into […]

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SoulScribe on April 9th, 2009

God calls us to lead lives of holiness.  Jesus gave the most perfect example with his own life.  But he gave us other examples of holiness in his own mother, the Virgin Mary, and the saints. Saints are people to whom we can relate, essentially role models for the faithful.  Saints do not forget those […]

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SoulScribe on March 25th, 2009

“Hope” is the thing with feathers —
 That perches in the soul — 
And sings the tune without the words —
 And never stops — at all — Emily Dickinson

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SoulScribe on March 17th, 2009

Stand by the roads and look, ask for the ancient path, which is the way to good.  Walk on it and find rest for your soul. Jeremiah 6:16

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SoulScribe on March 16th, 2009

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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SoulScribe on March 9th, 2009

If we pray, we will believe. If we believe, we will love. If we love, we will serve. Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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SoulScribe on March 5th, 2009

The etymology (fancy name for where a word comes from) of the word vocation takes it back to the word voice.  I love the idea of that relationship. My vocation is my voice in the world.  It’s what I’m charged to do every day.  My voice is my vocation. As a writer, voice is that […]

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SoulScribe on March 4th, 2009

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton

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SoulScribe on March 2nd, 2009

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb

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SoulScribe on February 24th, 2009

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. G.K. Chesterton

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