May the God of hope fill you with joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. — Romans 15:13. Some mornings we begin the day with a feeling of emptiness. We are overwhelmed by life’s situations compounded by Covid, and we want to crawl back…

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For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. — Ephesians 2:14. St. Paul is talking about gentiles and jews. I wonder what he would think of us today? The divides are so great between men and…

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Have you heard something? Let it die with you. Be brave, it will not make you burst. — Ecclesiasticus 19:10. Sirach admonishes us not to gossip. Can you imagine in these days of social media  what would happen if we all followed this advice? There are some benefits to social media I have found. We keep…

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We might have made demands as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, like a nurse tenderly caring for her own children. — 1 Thessalonians 2:7. A good measure of a person is how they treat others, especially those who work for that person. I knew in an instant about the character of…

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Prophets are not without honor except in their own country and in their own house. — Matthew 13:57b Can you know someone too well? Maybe not, but we have to work a little harder to overlook some things we know and be more forgiving if we are close. Jesus’s words may be why we have…

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