Don’t you love “Before” and “After” pictures? Most “Before” and “After” pictures focus on the thrill of improvement. Your home before our design team got their hands on it: It looks like a nice suburban rancher. Your home after our design team worked on it! It looks like the Biltmore mansion! You, before you bought the Muscle Miracle Machine and you, after you bought the Muscle Miracle Machine. Al...
Many of you know the name, Brother Lawrence. If you have not read his book The Practice of the Presence of God, you have probably heard a preacher or teacher speak of Brother Lawrence. He served in the kitchen of his monastery and said he experienced the presence of God as clearly in washing pots and pans as in the Blessed Sacrament. Though known as Brother Lawrence, his name was Nicholas Herman. ...
Dust and stones and weary bones.
Some of the most frequent metaphors in scripture have to do with dust, stones, and bones –either wasted, dry bones or bones filled with marrow and reinfused with life.
From the earliest scriptures in Genesis, we acknowledge that we have been created from the dust of the earth and infused with Holy Spirit breath to create a soul.
Each one of our lives begins and ...
