Gratitude Is The Ability To Experience Life

In A Contagious World,we Learn To Keep Our Distance. If We Get Too Close To Those Who Are Suffering, We Might Get Infected By Their Pain. It May Not Be Convenient Or Comfortable. But Only When You Get Close Enough To Catch Their Hurt Will They Be Close Enough To Catch Your Love.

We Must Learn To Cast Off Our Anxieties Because We Have So Many Of Them. The World Destroys Spiritual Life By Generating Constant Anxiety. Jesus Said That The Life Of The Gospel Is Choked Out By The Cares Of This World. We Know This To Be True Yet We Are More Chained And Tethered To The World Than Ever Before In The Human Race.

Never Worry Alone. When Anxiety Grabs My Mind, It Is Self-perpetuating. Worrisome Thoughts Reproduce Faster Than Rabbits, So One Of The Most Powerful Ways To Stop The Spiral Of Worry Is Simply To Disclose My Worry To A Friend... The Simple Act Of Reassurance From Another Human Being [becomes] A Tool Of The Spirit To Cast Out Fear -- Because Peace And Fear Are Both Contagious.

How Hard Is It For God To Get Your Attention? Do You Regularly Practice Turning Aside In Your Day? That Is, Taking A Moment To Listen To God- Because God, Through The Holy Spirit, Really Is Speaking, Because We Know, Every Place Is Filled With The Presence Of God. There Is Not An Inch Of Space, Not A Moment Of Time, That God Does Not Inhabit.

If We Do Not Become Changed From The Inside-out - If We Don't Morph - We Will Be Tempted To Find External Methods To Satisfy Our Need To Feel That We're Different From Those Outside The Faith. If We Cannot Be Transformed, We Will Settle For Being Informed Or Conformed.