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blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.

July 24, 2008

When: Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:00 AM to Friday, July 25, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For to him who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: `You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive. For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.’ But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
Matthew 13: 10 – 17
 
In this day in which the Rich became poor for our sakes, let the rich man make the poor man share with him at his table. On this day came forth to us the Gift, even though we had not asked for it! Let us therefore bestow alms on those who cry and beg from us.
— St. Ephraem the Syrian
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful, humbled and aware of how much farther I have yet to go. Even though I cannot see and do not remember the point from which I started, I know that as Jeremiah preached I ‘went after things that do not profit.‘ But thanks to You Lord God, Jesus in the Spirit humbled me and made me aware as the Psalmist sings ‘ For with thee is the fountain of life; in thy light do we see light. O continue thy steadfast love to those who know thee, and thy salvation to the upright of heart! Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.’ I know I will stumble and fall of Thy narrow path I seek, but I also know in Jesus with the Spirit I have what I need, my connection with You. Keep me connected, keep me close, O that You would bless me and mine indeed, enlarging our territory for and with You, keeping us from evil and from causing pain. In the name of the Father, the Sun, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
 
 
Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:
The Art of Presence By: Eckhart Tolle In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.
The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Unabridged) By: Norman Doidge The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries.
The Shack Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!
 
 

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Don’t have Jesus Christ on your lips and the world in your hearts. I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth.

July 23, 2008

When: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:00 AM to Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).

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Words written in red; Words of Jesus

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had not much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched; and since they had no root they withered away. Other seeds fell upon thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear."

Matthew 13: 1 – 9

Don't have Jesus Christ on your lips and the world in your hearts. I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth.

— St. Ignatius of Antioch

Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful, humbled and aware of my state, I pray the words of the Psalmist today – ' In thee, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline thy ear to me, and save me! Be thou to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for thou art my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.' And most of all myself! In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Jeremiah 1:1, 4-10<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Jer&ch=1&bv1=1&ev1=1&bv2=4&ev2=10>

Psalm 71:1-6, 15, 17<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Ps&ch=71&bv1=1&ev1=6&bv2=15&ev2=15&bv3=17&ev3=17>

Matthew 13:1-9<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Matt&ch=13&bv1=1&ev1=9>

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

The Art of Presence<http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=SP_TRUE_000261&BV_SessionID=@@@@0594871137.1214908377@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccgadeehkgfffecefecekjdffidfgf.0> By: Eckhart Tolle In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.

The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Unabridged)<http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_BRLL_000240&BV_SessionID=@@@@0594871137.1214908377@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccgadeehkgfffecefecekjdffidfgf.0> By: Norman Doidge The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries.

The Shack<http://www.amazon.com/Shack-William-P-Young/dp/0964729237/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213785707&sr=1-1> Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!

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Have you sinned? Go into church and wipe out your sin. As often as you might fall down in the marketplace, you pick yourself up again. So too, as often as you sin, repent and confess your sin. Do not despair as the devil wants you too.

July 22, 2008

When: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:00 AM to Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
Now on the first day of the week Mary Mag’dalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.  So she ran, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him."  But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.  They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him." Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus.  Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."  Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rab-bo’ni!" (which means Teacher).  Jesus said to her, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet  ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."  Mary Mag’dalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
John 20: 1 – 2, 11 – 18
 
Have you sinned? Go into church and wipe out your sin. As often as you might fall down in the marketplace, you pick yourself up again. So too, as often as you sin, repent and confess your sin. Do not despair as the devil wants you too.
— St John Chrysostom
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful, humble and aware of my nature I seek Jesus to help me, to overcome myself by dying to myself until there is nothing to overcome and all that is left is one who follows Jesus in everything, with everyone, and every time. Having nothing from myself to trip me and cause me to fall down, led only by a heart likened to Jesus able to feel others without feeling any of myself. Dead to my nature and the ways under the sun that shape and feed that nature always trying to keep it alive; a live and full of Jesus who has overcome these things and with whom I can rise alive in and with You as my only source for thought, word and deed. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
 
 
Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:
The Art of Presence By: Eckhart Tolle In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.
The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Unabridged) By: Norman Doidge The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries.
The Shack Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!
 
 

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..And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them."

July 21, 2008

When: Monday, July 21, 2008 12:00 AM to Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal. And he said to them, "Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics. And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart. And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them." And they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.
Luke 9: 1 – 6
 
God is love, and all his operations proceed from love. Once he wills to manifest that goodness by sharing his love outside himself, then the Incarnation becomes the supreme manifestation of his goodness and love and glory.
— St. Lawrence of Brindisi
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful, humble and seeking; seeking to know and walk in and by Your truths in and with goodness and love. Today’s readings tell me that Wisdom though she is to be treasured and valued under the sun, Wisdom without You, without the Passion of Jesus and His teachings one cannot walk a path of righteousness; for Wisdom without the heart likened to Jesus is self corrupting, only in and with Jesus can one hope through the faith that is manifested in those of us You feel You presence walk under the sun connected to goodness and love, with You as our source of source – our source of goodness and love. Never getting to comfortable with any place, always ready, always prepared to leave that situation if I am unable to practice Your presence. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
 
 
Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:
The Art of Presence By: Eckhart Tolle In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.
The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Unabridged) By: Norman Doidge The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries.
The Shack Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!
 
 

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The quiet solitude of the night make it a favorable time for prayer and most suitable for those who watch. With worldly occupations put aside and the attention undivided, the whole man, at night, stands in the divine presence.

July 20, 2008

When: Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:00 AM to Monday, July 21, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
Another parable he put before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. And the servants of the householder came and said to him, `Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then has it weeds?’ He said to them, `An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, `Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ But he said, `No; lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’"
All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable. This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."
Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field." He answered, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world, and the good seed means the sons of the kingdom; the weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age. The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear. 
Matthew 13: 24-30, 34-43
 
The quiet solitude of the night make it a favorable time for prayer and most suitable for those who watch. With worldly occupations put aside and the attention undivided, the whole man, at night, stands in the divine presence.
— St. Niceta of Remesiana
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful and humble I come to Thee, for as the book of Wisdom teaches ‘thy strength is the source of righteousness’ and ‘that the righteous man must be kind,’ liken my heart to that of Jesus. Let Thy secrets of His parables become the seeds of my faith, hope and love lighting my path and controlling my thoughts assuring that me and mine will be always ready and prepared for Thy harvest. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
 
13  For neither is there any god besides thee, whose care is for all men, to whom thou shouldst prove that thou hast not judged unjustly; 
16  For thy strength is the source of righteousness, and thy sovereignty over all causes thee to spare all. 
17  For thou dost show thy strength when men doubt the completeness of thy power, and dost rebuke any insolence among those who know it. 
18  Thou who art sovereign in strength dost judge with mildness, and with great forbearance thou dost govern us; for thou hast power to act whenever thou dost choose. 
19  Through such works thou has taught thy people that the righteous man must be kind, and thou hast filled thy sons with good hope, because thou givest repentance for sins. 
Psalm 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16
5  For thou, O Lord, art good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on thee. 
6  Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; hearken to my cry of supplication. 
9  All the nations thou hast made shall come and bow down before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name. 
10  For thou art great and doest wondrous things, thou alone art God. 
15  But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. 
16  Turn to me and take pity on me; give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.
Romans 8:26-27
26  Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. 
27  And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 
Matthew 13:24-43
 
Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:
The Art of Presence By: Eckhart Tolle In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.
The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Unabridged) By: Norman Doidge The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries.
The Shack Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!
 
 

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"Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand; .Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good,

July 19, 2008

When: Saturday, July 19, 2008 12:00 AM to Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, how to destroy him.  Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all, and ordered them not to make him known.  This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles. He will not wrangle or cry aloud, nor will any one hear his voice in the streets; he will not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick, till he brings justice to victory; and in his name will the Gentiles hope." 
But when the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by Be-el’zebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons."  Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand; and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?  And if I cast out demons by Be-el’zebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.  But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.  And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.  "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.  You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.  The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. 
Matthew 12:14-21, 24-28, 31-35
 
I will go up to the foot of the Cross; I will press my arms tightly around the cold body, the corpse of Christ, with the fire of my love…..I will unail it, with my reparation and mortifications….I will wrap it in the new winding-sheet of my clean life, and I will bury it in the clean rock of my breast, where no one can tear it away from me, and there, Lord, take your rest! Were the whole world to abandon you…serviam! I will serve you Lord.
— St. Josemaria Escriva
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful for all Your blessings, for Your Words that provide insight into Your truths and secrets; so deep, so complicated and so perplexing, yet so simple. Is it my nature that complicates and is perplexed making it hard for me to do what is simple and the nature of my true source, or is it simply Your purpose and part of the process of repentance and purification to challenge me to keep seeking that true source until my nature is replace by my that source. I know that it is through Jesus and His teachings in the Spirit that I will find the answer or what I need to keep seeking for then in seeking I will do Your will and with each reading, prayer, thought and moment find Your light within me growing brighter to more clearly light my path and shine from within me to be visible by others, most of all my love ones so we will be united with You through Jesus in the Spirit for eternity. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
 
Micah 2:1-5
Psalm 10:1-4, 7-8, 14
Matthew 12:14-21
 
Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:
The Art of Presence By: Eckhart Tolle In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.
The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Unabridged) By: Norman Doidge The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries.
The Shack Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!
 
 

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"Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand; .Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good,

July 19, 2008

When: Saturday, July 19, 2008 12:00 AM to Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, how to destroy him.  Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all, and ordered them not to make him known.  This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles. He will not wrangle or cry aloud, nor will any one hear his voice in the streets; he will not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick, till he brings justice to victory; and in his name will the Gentiles hope." 
But when the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by Be-el’zebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons."  Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand; and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?  And if I cast out demons by Be-el’zebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.  But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 
Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.  And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.  "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.  You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.  The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. 
Matthew 12:14-21, 24-28, 31-35
 
I will go up to the foot of the Cross; I will press my arms tightly around the cold body, the corpse of Christ, with the fire of my love…..I will unail it, with my reparation and mortifications….I will wrap it in the new winding-sheet of my clean life, and I will bury it in the clean rock of my breast, where no one can tear it away from me, and there, Lord, take your rest! Were the whole world to abandon you…serviam! I will serve you Lord.
— St. Josemaria Escriva
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful for all Your blessings, for Your Words that provide insight into Your truths and secrets; so deep, so complicated and so perplexing, yet so simple. Is it my nature that complicates and is perplexed making it hard for me to do what is simple and the nature of my true source, or is it simply Your purpose and part of the process of repentance and purification to challenge me to keep seeking that true source until my nature is replace by my that source. I know that it is through Jesus and His teachings in the Spirit that I will find the answer or what I need to keep seeking for then in seeking I will do Your will and with each reading, prayer, thought and moment find Your light within me growing brighter to more clearly light my path and shine from within me to be visible by others, most of all my love ones so we will be united with You through Jesus in the Spirit for eternity. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
 
 
Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:
The Art of Presence By: Eckhart Tolle In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.
The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Unabridged) By: Norman Doidge The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries.
The Shack Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!
 
 

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