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Food for Thought

Oswald Chambers Are we glorifying God to impress others? Or to feel better about ourselves? Or are we truly glorifying God, not to lift ourselves, but no acknowledge How amazing our God truly is? What does scripture tell us about this? I’m sure you can find other appropriate scripture, but here is one to contemplate:Continue reading “Food for Thought”

Food for Thought

“In our concern to do it right, we have forgotten how to respond spontaneously to an encounter with the Divine. We remain children, depending on someone else’s approval, in that most important core of our life, the spiritual. We don’t learn how to pray, only to say approved prayers. We sit at the dark edgesContinue reading “Food for Thought”

Food for Thought

The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of humanContinue reading “Food for Thought”

Food for Thought

Here’s some food for thought on this Tuesday in October. “…the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by his letting us have our way in the end, but by his making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly pray what he taught his disciples to pray: ThyContinue reading “Food for Thought”

Food for Thought

Some food for thought for your Thursday. There is someone that I love even though I don’t approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is……me. C SContinue reading “Food for Thought”

In a Crisis

Here’s your food for thought for today. Have a terrific Tuesday! “It’s one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.” Oswald Chambers

We Are All Sinners

Here’s your Tuesday food for thought. Have a wonderful day! We are all poor sinners and unworthy even to mention your name, and so we beg our Lord Jesus Christ, your beloved Son, in whom you are well pleased, and the Holy Spirit, to give you thanks for everything. ~St. Francis of Assisi