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Prayer

Why Pray If God Already Knows?

Gaston La Touche. A Maiden in Contemplation. …Because prayer turns my heart toward God and opens me to the heavenly realms. …Because prayer roots me deeper and deeper in the soil of God’s nurturing love. …Because prayer reminds me this […]

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A Letter From Betty

Dear Ones, I carry the picture in my heart of the sweet and intimate relationship going on all the time between Jesus and His Father. The Father so willing to pour everything into His Son and the Son, so ready […]

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Autumn Creates Space For Dying

A Walk Through the Woods in Autumn. Sergei Vinogradov Autumn creates space for dying. What is left untended in the heat of summer needs mending in the fall. For earth and flesh must keep their seasons and their liturgy. The […]

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Prayer Is A Love Affair

Georgia O’Keefe. An Orchid. Museum of Modern Art Prayer is much more than words; it is being with God and the sum of our relationship with Him. Prayer is the realization of our soul’s deepest desire. The surprise is that […]

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A Prayer of Veils and Altars

Paul Signac. Place des Lices. Carnegie Museum of Art. Abba Father, prayer is my noblest function and the altar on which I lay my deepest longings in the intimacy of Your perfect Love. It is the sacred space of our […]

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Change and Growth are Synonymous

Vassily Kandisky. Autumn in Murnau. Private collection. Loving God, I realize now that I have to be open to everything if I want to change and grow more deeply into the love and knowledge of You, who are everything and […]

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My Burning Heart

Prayer is the breath of the soul, the organ by which we receive Christ into our parched and withered hearts. As air enters in quietly when we breathe, and does its normal work in our lungs, so Jesus enters quietly […]

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Intensify Your Desire

Mark Rothko. No. 3. Yale University Art Gallery At the heart of our reality there is neither an endless recycling of a bland and sterile existence nor a silent and mute indifference, but rather One Who loves. In giving us […]

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