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Openings … Insurance policy

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Imagine an insurance policy that provides a long term guarantee of eternal happiness just be signing up?

Requirements are not simple; to love others and have faith in Him.

Easy words, but with deep meanings.

Like the words, forever, eternity and joy.

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Gospel of Mark

REFLECTION ON THE DAILY GOSPEL AND READINGS 27 JUNE 2013

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HAGAR IN WILDERNESS

When we find ourselves in the wilderness, we should listen to God’s will. Sometimes it is in the wilderness of our lives that we have the chance to hear God’s voice, when we might not have heard Him when we were busy with our own.

When we hear His word and act on it, we will be rewarded. God is always looking for us to move closer to Him, to change our heart just a little more each day. Let me make that movement today towards Him.

REFLECTION ON THE DAILY GOSPEL AND READINGS 18 JUNE 2013

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By asking us to love our enemies, God doesn’t ask us to like what bad things or sins they may force on us. But He does ask us to love them. How can we possibly head out on that path? Well, I think that He wants to always be close to Him, and if we have hatred in our heart, then that separates us from Him.

So by the examples in the readings and Gospel today, we are instructed to “love our enemies”, to pray for them, to have no animosity towards them, so they may become closer to God.

If, as some experts in Spirituality propose, that our consciousness is a gift from God to feel His presence, then we surely offend Him if our conscious thoughts are malignant and hateful. These thoughts separate us from Him, and that’s not a good thing.

Let us pray today to bring ourselves to a place of love and peace with the Lord and leave all those feelings of animosity and hatred behind in the trash can of our spiritual past.