A Saint Is Not Someone Who Is

The Most Powerful Thing That Can Happen In The Place Of Prayer Is That You Yourself Become The Prayer. You Leave The Prayer Room Able As Jesus' Hands And Feet On Earth. This Is What It Means To Pray Continually (without Ceasing), To See With The Eyes Of Jesus And To Hear With His Ears With Every Waking Moment.

Whenever I Allow Anything But Tenderness And Compassion To Dictate My Response To Life--be It Self-righteous Anger, Moralizing, Defensiveness, The Pressing Need To Change Others...i Am Alienated From My True Self. My Identity As Abba's Child [a Child Of God] Becomes Ambiguous, Tentative And Confused

Whatever We Have Done In The Past, Be It Good Or Evil, Great Or Small, Is Irrelevant To Our Stance Before God Today. It Is Only Now That We Are In The Presence Of God.

We Are Not Cowed Into Timidity By Death And Life. Were We Forced To Rely On Our Own Shabby Resources We Would Be Pitiful People In Deed. But The Awareness Of Christ's Present Risenness Persuades Us That We Are Buoyed Up And Carried On By A Life Greater Than Our Own.

We Unwittingly Project Onto God Our Own Attitudes And Feelings Toward Ourselves... But We Cannot Assume That He Feels About Us The Way We Feel About Ourselves -- Unless We Love Ourselves Compassionately, Intensely, And Freely.