James 4:8: “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” “Before we search for God, God is searching for us.” Abraham Heschel I find this quote by Abraham Heschel posted all over the Abbey. Odd that a Catholic Monastery will put up a quotation from a Jewish theologian for a Protestant Hebrew
Psalms 37:7: “Resign yourself to the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. Fret not yourself because of him who prospereth in his way. Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.” I am sitting out on the patio watching some birds and a chipmunk at play. I learned from my last visit to
Psalms 62:6: “Only for God does my soul wait in silence for from Him cometh my hope.” So what am I waiting for while I am in silence? Actually the word wait is not found in the Hebrew text, it is just the opinion of translator that if you are in silence you are
Psalms 62:6 “Only for God does my soul wait in silence, for from Him cometh my hope.” C.S. Lewis in his book Screwtape letters tells how the senior demon has concocted an interesting plan to drive us away from God. He choses to distract us with noise. He knows that if we are bombarded with
Genesis 6:6: “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” We tend to look at God as this huge unemotional giant who is just waiting for us to make one little slip so he can send down his lightning bolts. Yet,
John 11:35 – Jesus wept It is a cold, dark rainy day here at the Abbey. I don’t believe that God brought this dark gloomy day just for me but I do believe He is an opportunist. Since He did plan on this being a rainy, dark, gloomy day he led me to
Matthew 7:7: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:” I am now in the Weeping Room of the Heart of Jesus. He is sharing with me hearts that I have never met. He shows me the heart of a woman
Matthew 25:40: “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me.” So I am sitting in front of the great white tree, my new little trysting place
Daniel 6:18: “Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were diversons brought before him: and his sleep went from him.” The first thing I noticed when I arrived at the Abbey was that my IPhone and IPAD both had a flag saying: “No Service.” I was truly shut
Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” If you are anyway remotely involved in your churches children’s work you will most likely hear someone quote this verse as your incentive to teach the children placed under your
