20140913 No need to kill time in heaven.
20140909 “If you who are evil” applies to everybody, so no need to think that the finger is pointed particularly at you. But of course, “You can do good things” should be taken personally, since the good think I can do is before me personally. If you, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children." Matthew 7:11
20140905 The usefulness of sour grapes.
The consciousness of a dog is somewhere between that of a dead Jesus and that of the living Jesus.
20140904 Someone will benefit from a prayer.
Love responds to love.
Every time I pray someone benefits.
20140901 If it doesn’t matter to God, it needn’t matter to me. If it matters to me, I can pray for it to God.
20140828 It may not be what God wants, but at least it’s not what I want.
20140827
“Religion is not our concern; it is God’s concern: be still and know.” —Thomas R. Kelly
“Count on God knocking on the doors of time.” Ibid.
Experience over inference. Ibid.
An experience of the life of God. Ibid.
By an interior act and attitude we lift them repeatedly before the throne and hold lthem there in power. This is work, real labor of the soul. It takes energy but it is done in joy." Ibid.
20140826 “Then you don’t really want to, you don’t love God above all else in the world, with all your head and soul and mind and strength. For, except for spells of sickness in the family and when children are small, when terrific pressure is upon us, we find time for what we really want to do.” —Thomas R. Kelly, Testament of Devotion
20140420 “When God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return; the sole purpose of his love is to be loved in return, in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love for him.” —St. Bernard of Clairvaux
What would heaven be without earthly things? After rising, Jesus ate fish. Will we be without flowers and our dogs?
Was Jesus transfigured? Or did the apostles have a glimpse of him as he is?
20140804 We can cause good by praying. We cannot cause evil by not praying.
If God counts our prayers, it’s okay to pray for little things.
Not lovable but loved.
20140802 Say, not only think, your prayers.
20140801 The fear that God is not love.
20140731 What’s on a dog’s bucket list?
Could the beasts present in the stable not be present in heaven?
20140728 “My Lord and my God.” A prayer for doubters.
20140727 Mary is just as loving and less demanding than Jesus.
20140723 My dog, an object of my love, sleeps most of the day.
Mainly we are important because we are His.
The dead know.
20140722 Superstitious practices are a kind of discipline.
If the time comes, “no authority” will prove no hindrance.
20140719 What were vocations are now careers.
20140718 The things one cares most about, one can do little about.
If the hairs of our heads are counted, so are our dogs counted.
20140717 “My yoke,” meaning joining with Jesus and pulling together. “Sweet (easy) yoke,” meaning the yoke is well-fitted (shaped) for you to pull.