Prayer

God, you are worthy of all my praise, and You created me to praise You! So please show me how to worship you in all that I do! When people look back on my life, I want them to give You glory. So please teach me how to make my life an act of worship. Amen.

Faith & Surrender

Entrega tu vida y deja que Dios sea todo.

Surrender your life and let God be everything.

Señor, es a ti a quien sirvo.

Lord, it is you whom I serve.

Union with God demands departure of self.

When I lose faith, I lose purpose.

Our love has to face its own poverty as an awakening to our need in God in Christ. Emptiness is in everything sought apart from Him.

I will stay in poverty until I learn all lessons it has to teach me.

Contemplation

We must seek a contemplative quality of life.

Fr. Haggerty

God's language is silence.

Only someone who is silent is listening.

Disappear and let God be all.

Silent your desires.

To reach satisfaction in all, desire its possession in nothing.

If calmness is needed for thinking, silence is needed for love.

Simplifying my life does not mean I'm living my life any less profoundly.

Everything is today. Everything is present. Everything is. Everything is here.

Octavio Paz

Wisdom & Truth

Wisdom is knowing and having discernment, so that we can apply the truth of the Word of God at the right time, in the right way, and with the right motive.

Wisdom is the power of the soul to know truth. The rational mind can prohibit comprehending truth; through the heart we can perceive and understand the deepest truths.

Love & Character

Existence is love.

Tough mind and tender heart.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I will be a transformed nonconformist.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love your enemies, pray for them.

Escape competition through authenticity.

Purpose & Calling

My purpose is what I choose it to be, finding it according to what I pursue with all my heart, soul, strength and mind, and loving my neighbor as myself.

I pursue consistency, persistency, insistency.

Scripture

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances. For this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Do not be conformed to this age but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you can prove what the will of God is—that which is good, well pleasing and perfect.

Romans 12:2

You will seek me and find me when you seek with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13

Call to me and I will answer you and I will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Jeremiah 33:3

Be joyful in your hope and faith.