One Walk

When: Monday, June 02, 2008 12:00 AM to Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).

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Words of Jesus

And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country. When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed. He had still one other, a beloved son; finally he sent him to them, saying, `They will respect my son.' But those tenants said to one another, `This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this scripture: `The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?"

Mark 12: 1 – 12

When the Lord ascended into heaven, He departed from our sight, so that we might return to our hearts and find Him there.

— St. Augustine

Abba, Father, Lord God, thank You for a new day, for the comfort of having my son back home if only for a while, for letting me feel You hand at work in my relationships with those I love most, as I seek to be one with You, and allow You to You one within me in Jesus through the Spirit, and now for the first time begin to feel how my love ones can be one with us. It is has St. Peter writes today 'Your divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of You who called us to Your own glory and excellence, by which He has granted to us Your precious and very great promises, that through these I may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion, and become partaker of the divine nature. For this very reason I will make every effort to supplement my faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.' For as the Psalmist sing You are '"my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust." In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

2 Peter 1:2-7<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=_2Pet&ch=1&bv1=2&ev1=7>

Psalm 91:1-2, 14-16<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Ps&ch=91&bv1=1&ev1=2&bv2=14&ev2=16>

Mark 12:1-12<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Mark&ch=12&bv1=1&ev1=12>

Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:

Heaven Is Real: Lessons on Earthly Joy – from the Man Who Spent 90 Minutes in Heaven<http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_PENG_000702&BV_SessionID=@@@@1338077985.1212362231@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadeefgfjhjmcefecekjdffidflg.0> (Unabridged) – On January 18th 1989, Don Piper died in a car accident. Ninety minutes later, after a preacher prayed over him, Piper came back to life with an extraordinary story. He'd been to heaven. So began the phenomenon of 90 Minutes in Heaven.

Revolution: Finding Vibrant Faith Beyond the Walls of the Sanctuary<http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_TYND_000051&BV_SessionID=@@@@1338077985.1212362231@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadeefgfjhjmcefecekjdffidflg.0> (Unabridged) – World-renowned pollster George Barna has the numbers, and they indicate a revolution is already taking place within the Church: one that will impact every believer in America. For leaders working for positive change in the church, and for believers struggling to find a spiritual community and worship experience that resonates, Revolution is here. Are you ready?

When: Sunday, June 01, 2008 12:00 AM to Monday, June 02, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).

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Words of Jesus

"Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.' "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it."

Matthew 7: 21 – 27

Whoever doesn't give up prayer can't possibly continue to offend God.

— St. Alphonsus Liguori

Abba, Father, Lord God, thank You for this day, for all Your blessings and for Your Holy Spirit that through Jesus lives within me keeping me connected to You and convicted at the foot of the Cross of Jesus if I wonder off the narrow path that I have chosen to follow. For You and I know I cannot walk it without You, and since it is You I seek first, I need Your help and continued blessings to be what I am, not what I have been, and to guide and direct me through the challenges and choices that lay before me. For in my heart I feel that at Your inspiration and through Your commandments which became the laws in the words of the Prophets and then at Your command the Word became life in Jesus and now lives within each of us whether awakened or not, in the Holy Spirit, is all about oneness with You our source or source. This oneness so easily broken under the sun, is the ripening of spirit being within our human being through a dying to the desires of the body and the rising in the spirit with Jesus to the point where we are His image under the sun and become one with Him, who is one with You, and we then are one with You in the Spirit which no longer reacting to the nature of the body, but controlling and using the body to fulfill Your will for me which starts in being one with You. Always able to think before speaking or acting – What would Jesus do? In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Deuteronomy 11:18, 26-28, 32<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=deut&ch=11&bv1=18&ev1=18&bv2=26&ev2=28&bv3=32&ev3=32>

Psalm 31:2-4, 17, 25<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Ps&ch=31&bv1=2&ev1=4&bv2=17&ev2=17&bv3=25&ev3=25>

Romans 3:21-25, 28<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Rom&ch=3&bv1=21&ev1=25&bv2=28&ev2=28>

Matthew 7:21-27<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Matt&ch=7&bv1=21&ev1=27>

Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:

Heaven Is Real: Lessons on Earthly Joy – from the Man Who Spent 90 Minutes in Heaven<http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_PENG_000702&BV_SessionID=@@@@1338077985.1212362231@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadeefgfjhjmcefecekjdffidflg.0> (Unabridged) – On January 18th 1989, Don Piper died in a car accident. Ninety minutes later, after a preacher prayed over him, Piper came back to life with an extraordinary story. He'd been to heaven. So began the phenomenon of 90 Minutes in Heaven.

Revolution: Finding Vibrant Faith Beyond the Walls of the Sanctuary<http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_TYND_000051&BV_SessionID=@@@@1338077985.1212362231@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadeefgfjhjmcefecekjdffidflg.0> (Unabridged) – World-renowned pollster George Barna has the numbers, and they indicate a revolution is already taking place within the Church: one that will impact every believer in America. For leaders working for positive change in the church, and for believers struggling to find a spiritual community and worship experience that resonates, Revolution is here. Are you ready?