My Mother and Old Age
"God has compassion for the “undeserving” as much as the “deserving”. God knows them more than they know themselves. God knows their pain. God suffers with them. God embraces them and invites them in." ...
"God has compassion for the “undeserving” as much as the “deserving”. God knows them more than they know themselves. God knows their pain. God suffers with them. God embraces them and invites them in." ...
“This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me …” Is there harmony between what I say and what I do?...
"For me this came to mean that, since I was one of the Militant, I could pray TO the Triumphant and FOR the Suffering and the other Militant and that we all worked together in a mysterious but very real way." ...
"Sometimes elderly people can appear more childlike and humble. Not always of course. We can also be short tempered and judgmental."...
"Our Western governments (including Canada) put up walls (figurative and real ones) to prevent refugees from coming to our countries. Can you imagine the neighbouring towns of Lytton telling those fleeing residents: “Sorry, there’s no room at the inn.”?"...
"The psalms are filled with beautiful images to describe the power of God in our lives. "...
"Is it okay for a good practicing Roman Catholic to be angry about the contentious issue of the residential schools? And how do we express that anger?"...
"What I find valuable in these two books is how they listen and observe. Instead of beginning with judgment, they present portraits of the situations and people directly involved . . "...