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He needs prayer so that he won’t go blind due to health complications –from Beliefnet member hummergirl Add your prayers now

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Scripture likens the Torah to the desert, to fire, and to water, for like these three, it is free to all. –Mekilta Reprinted from ‘A Treasury of Jewish Quotations.’ edited by Joseph L. Baron. Jason Aronson Inc.

15. Be polite to anyone who’s preparing your food (that includes spouses, siblings, and in-laws). Plus: One priest’s advice for beating Christmas burnout.

With light and joy pouring out of Heaven like water through a broken dam, [the angels] began to shout and sing the message that baby Jesus had been born. The world had a Savior! The angels called it “Good News,” and it was. –Larry Libby

“In your seeing,” he said, “there should be only the seeing. In your hearing, nothing but the hearing; in your smelling, tasting, and touching, nothing but smelling, tasting, and touching; in your thinking, nothing but the thought.” –Khuddaka Nikaya From “The Pocket Buddha Reader,” edited by Anne Bancroft, 2000. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications,…

Gad shall be raided by raiders, But he shall raid at their heels. Asher’s bread shall be rich, And he shall yield royal dainties. Naphtali is a hind let loose, Which yields lovely fawns. Joseph is a wild ass, A wild ass by a spring –Wild colts on a hillside. Archers bitterly assailed him; They…

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much is impossible. –Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

A little girl was in church with her mother when she started feeling ill. “Mommy,” she said, “can we leave now?” “No,” her mother replied. “Well, I think I have to throw up!” exclaimed the girl. “Then go out the front door and around to the back of the church and throw up behind a…

Matthew 25:1-13 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaidsa took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; 4 but the wise took flasks of oil with their…

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