Devotions from “Living the Lord’s Prayer” by Albert Haase There are no words to adequately describe our God and our limited understanding can not reach the heights of all that He is. God is love but He is also so much more than what the human word Love means. From the words of St. Francis:…
Devotions from Albert Haase’s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer Christian love is expresses in so many ways: friendship, acts of kindness, sharing our time, talents or treasures etc. Hospitality is one practical way to express love for our neighbor and reflects our love for our Father. Part of hospitality is simply welcoming another sister or…
Devotions from Albert Haase,s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer Love of God and love of neighbor go hand in hand. One love complements and completes the other. In John 4:20 it says we cannot love God whom we have not seen if we do not love our brother or sister whom we have seen. In…
Devotions based on Albert Haase’s book, “Living the Lord’s Prayer Each Sunday when we go to church we find as many different images of God as there are people in the congregation. Each of us has painted an image of God on our heart that is framed from our past experiences and shaped by our…
For the last couple of weeks I have been working quite intently on a talk I will be giving at the Shalom program that I am a part of in Duluth at St. Scholastica. The title of the talk is “Forgiveness, reunion and inner healing.” In my reflection I have come to several surprises. First of…
Devotions from Albert Haases’ book, Living the Lord’s Prayer. Haase is a priest, spiritual director, and former missionary to China When a disciple asked Jesus “Teach us to pray” Jesus didn’t respond with a method or technique but with words that capture the essence of His teaching and ministry. Much of the time when we…
Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book Finding Our Way Home Heaven is “Where we find what we want, what we have always wanted.” WE have always wanted to be home, surrounded in the security of perfect love and understanding. Sometimes we obscure this great good, this deep longing of our heart, by filling our lives with…
Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book, Finding Our Way Home God is high above us, transcendent in all ways, yet He is also with us, immanent in our day-to-day world. If we lean too far in the direction of transcendence we may view our creator as remote and not concerned about us. If we teeter the…
Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book, Finding Our Way Home Among the blessings in life, good friendship is among the very best. Being with a good friends is like enjoying cool, fresh water after a long hot hike, quenching the thirst of our soul. But in our friendships, our pride often keeps us from seeing the…
Devotions based on Finding Our Way Home by Mark McMinn Jesus offers us a better way that ultimately leads to greater peace and joy than any life plan we could devise on our own. The path to the abundant life He came to bring calls us to give up trying to engineer our own happiness…