Devotions from Gary Thomas’  Pure Pleasure Do we really know what it means to live in the love of God and to believe He delights in us? Julian of Norwich said,” He makes us love all that He loves, for His love’s sake, and makes us take pleasure in Him and all His works. God…

Devotions from Gary Thomas’s book, Pure Pleasure God delights in our delight!  In Isaiah 62:4-5 it says “The Lord will take delight in you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.” Enjoying God and what He has created (in the way He intends us to enjoy it) brings…

Devotions from Pure Pleasure by Gary Thomas  Jesus said “I came so that they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.” ( The message translation) “The good things of this earth, created by God to be received with thanksgiving and praise- things such as friendship, good food…

Devotions from Gary Thomas’s book, Pure Pleasure Maybe when you read the title of Thomas’ book, you thought of sin, like- “If it feels good it must be sin!” But God wants to bless us with so many pleasures and gifts from His hand that delight us –  and in delighting us brings pleasure back…

Devotions from Mother Teresa/No Greater Love The work God calls each of us to do is a means to put our love for God into living action.  Our vocation is to belong to Him. If we say Yes to God it means we surrender fully, without reservations and allow only God to make plans for…

Devotions based on Mother Teresa/No Greater Love “The prize with which God rewards our self-abandonment is Himself.” Suffering will never be completely absent from our lives but we must not be afraid of suffering. Our suffering can be a means of love if we make use of it. Suffering in itself is useless but suffering…

Devotions from Mother Teresa/No Greater Love “We know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.” We are all sinners needing forgiveness and we must be forgiven in order to be able to forgive others.  “Only in confession can we go as sinners with sin and come…

Devotions from Mother Teresa/No Greater Love “God has not created poverty; it is we who have created it. Before God, all of us are poor.”  Poverty is not just being hungry for food, but hungry for human dignity.  This is the hunger to be loved, to be wanted, and to feel the presence of Christ.…

Devotions from Mother Teresa/No Greater Love “Don’t pass by the cross; it is a place of grace.”  All of us have to carry our own cross, all of us have to accompany Jesus in His ascent to Calvary if we want to reach the summit with Him.  This means we have to empty ourselves of…

Devotions from Mother Teresa/No Greater Love How do we work and keep our attention fully on the Lord?  It seems impossible but the important thing is that our it is our intention and the desire of our heart that our work be done with Jesus and for Him.  It is what He wants…our will and…