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The root choice is to trust at all times that God is with you and will give you what you most need. –Henri Nouwen

The aim of Life is to Live, and to Live means to be Aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely, Aware. –Henry James

Adapted from ‘The Journey: How to Live By Faith in an Uncertain World’ by Billy Graham (W Publishing Group, 2006). Used by Permission. What does it take for us to become more like Christ? First, repentance. Second, becoming more like Christ requires submission. Every day a battle rages in our hearts between our wills and…

Then Laban spoke up and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks; all that you see is mine. Yet what can I do now about my daughters or the children they have borne? Come, then, let us make a pact, you and I,…

Matthew 16: 21-28 21 From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 22 And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke…

[21] From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. [22] Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far…

“A severe injury has caused him to turn away from God.” –from Beliefnet member clareg Add your prayers now

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world. –The Talmud, Mishna, Sanhedrin 37a

Free from anger, duties observed, principled, with no overbearing pride, trained, a ‘last-body’: he’s what I call a brahmin. Like water on a lotus leaf, a mustard seed on the tip of an awl, he doesn’t adhere to sensual pleasures: he’s what I call a brahmin. –Dhammapada, 26, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

About a century or two ago, the Pope challenged the Jewish community of Rome to a debate. The Jews looked around for a champion who could defend their faith, but no one wanted to volunteer. It was too risky. So they finally picked an old man named Moishe who spent his life sweeping up after…
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