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| A Prayer for Making Decisions |
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Gracious God, it seems that life
is always requiring decisions. Sometimes everything
in my life is stable and settled, and then a new
opportunity presents itself, and I feel unsteady and
unsure of which way to go.
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prayer
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for Living
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When our days unfold in familiar,
predictable routines, it can feel as though creativity,
imagination and inventiveness are obscure and
distant.
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| Questions of Faith and Doubt |
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What is the
power
of prayer?
The power of prayer is the power that comes to us
when we realize that God can be our point of
reference in the midst of all the confusions of our
daily lives…
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What if Christian
teachings fill me with feelings of guilt and
worthlessness?
God's love does not depend on how good we are,
how bright or promising, how
conscientious or even caring. It's hard to believe, but
God loves us just because we are.
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God's Unfinished Business |
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Work is our gift to the world. It's really work that ties
us to the rest of humankind and binds us to the future.
It's work that saves us from total self-centeredness
and leads to self-fulfillment at the same time. It's work that makes it possible to
give back as much as we take from life.…
The goal of life is to work and work and work
because the world is unfinished and it is our
responsibility to go on with it in creative ways. No,
profit-making has not saved us. We need the wisdom
of creative work now.
—Joan Chittister
from Being
Really Balanced
 Making a Difference
We can never really know the full end of the labor
that we offer to the world. We are able to see the
short-term results of our work, and we can project
some of the outcomes, but the full impact of our work
remains hidden to us.
It doesn't matter what the actual labor is because it is
not the labor alone that transforms the world. It is the
heart and soul, the body and mind, the feelings and
compassion that we bring to the work that transform
the world. In the end, our life does count, and what
we do does make a difference, simply because it is
us doing it.
from Daily
Vitamins for the Soul
Volume 2, Day 5
by
Renée Mlller
 Ahead of Time
Thomas Merton wrote, "To work out our own identity
in God, which the Bible calls 'working out our
salvation,' is a labor that requires sacrifice and
anguish, risk and many tears. It demands close
attention to reality at every moment, and great fidelity
to God as He reveals Himself, obscurely, in the
mystery of each new situation. We do not know
clearly what the result of this work will be. The secret
of my full identity is hidden in Him."
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