August 31st Daily Reflection

Celebrate your weakness! Rejoy because you need help doing anything you do! How cool it is to take a preceived weakness as an actual strength because it keeps you close to the Lord? And we all have great experience of when we stay close to the Lord, the awesomeness we encounter.

How are you rejoicing in your weakness of depending on the Lord?

August 29th Daily Reflection

I woke at 4:30 this morning and normally when I wake at this time, I try to go back to sleep but today, I got up and just sat and listened. There was an uplifting quiteness that signal a wonderful peace. And I thought the Lord is with me, how cool is it that I got this opportunity to be quite with the Lord! Today's devotion talks about being quite with the Lord and allowing yourself to stop focusing on earthly things and start focusing on Godly things. I have been doing that and tracking the outcomes and the interesting thing I have noticed is when I focus on Godly things in any situation, things work out, however, when I focus on earthly things such as looking good, being right, winning, unnecessary tension is created.

How is focusing on Godly things allowing you to experience heaven on earth?

August 28th Daily Reflection

I have been supplimenting the daily devotion with readings from the "Consoling the Heart of Jesus" daily pray book and the combination has been profound! I find myself becoming more and more fearless in situations because, my faith that the Lord will guide and protect me has grown stronger. This of course, is producing some results that the Bible predicted, others are trying to create doubt and shake my faith. However, this provide a great reason for me to increase the time I spend meditating and being close othe Lord! Of course, there are others who have been highly supportive of growth and given me opportunities to continue growing as they model what it is to be the conduit of the Lord's love.

August 25th Daily Reflection

I was smiling as I read today's devotion because this week was definitely a week of training for me and while it was one filled with enormous blessings, I would not have been able to receive them without being close to the Lord. Being in training mode made it easier to be close to the Lord because I was not afraid of making mistakes and that lack of fear made it okay to be vulnerable! A prefect ending to a prefect week!

August 21st Daily Reflection

Wait with the Lord and all his blessings will be shown! Sometimes I start running around like I am crazy and then I stop and ask myself do I really need to do that or am I trying to be God and decide what should happen. Then I stop and most times, I realize I am trying to be God and dictate what should happen which means I need to stop and sit for awhile. The first few times I did this, I thought everything would go to pieces but they didn't everything turned out perfectly! So now I simply sit and wait for awhile and then I calmly go about my way and everything works out fine - the blessings of the Lord in action!

Waiting with the Lord for all his blessings - what a wonderful way to spend the day!

August 20th Daily Reflection

Last year, I was in such despair knowing that something had to change but was fight the Lord on the changes he recommended. Then I became serious about my spiritual journey and my only focus became getting close to the Lord and as my relationship with him grew, I developed a wonderful love affair with him and thur this affair, all the brokeness in my life was heal. I was able to embrace my weakness and because I was able to embrace my weakness, I became strong! My strenght grew at such an alarming pace, I had doubts but the Lord removed them. So a year on, I went from having parts of my birthday celebration being a disaster to all of it being incredibly beautiful and wonderful. Today I celebrate my birthday and my re-birth in the Lord! The future never looked so exciting!

How are you letting the Lord heal your life?

August 18th Daily Reflection

Have you ever been excited walking into a fight? So excited that you never think you will loss, so excited that you don't stop to think if the fight is worth it? That's like facing all the difficulties in your life with so much excitement that you don't think of them as difficulties! And this excitement comes from being so close to the Lord that difficulties are no longer difficulties but awesome opportunities to stay close to the Lord and be a conduit for his love!

How excited are you to face difficulties in your life because you have a relationship with the Lord?

August 17th Daily Reflection

Attachment! I was reading the short version of "Consoling the Heart of Jesus" and it talked about attachments. We become attached to things that we loss sight of the Lord, elevating them above the Lord and makes it difficult to fully embrace him. I find that people have a very hard time letting go of attachments both physical and mental - we are so concern about lossing our physical possessions and will do strange things to ensure that doesn't happen. And it is even more difficult to let go of our mental attachments, someone hurts us and we hold unto that hurt for years, something we preceived as negative happens and we do everything our power to try and avoid it happening again, something wonderful happens and we hold unto it wanting to recreate it at every opportunity. However, if we can stop focusing on our attachments seeing them as physical anchors and fleeting moments in time, we will see that the only attachment we need is the attachment to the Lord.

How are your attachments keeping you from the Lord?

August 15th Daily Reflection

Seeing difficulties as blessings, allowing yourself to pause during the day to speak with the Lord, finding excuses to be closer to Lord, all things when done, brings you into the arms of the Lord and causes you to experience heaven on earth. A very long sentence to explain a simple concept which must be constantly monitored or it falls by the wayside. I have found that days when I am diligent and adhere to guidance, I am so over full by joy because I get to experience heaven on earth!

August 14th Daily Reflection

I am the alpha and the omega says the Lord. The world is constantly changing but your relationship with the Lord remains the same. Today, I went to mass and was so moved by the homily, it reminds us that we should remain child like without being childish. And that made me smile because to stay close to the Lord you must be childlike and being childlike means you as you change, you need to remain the same! How do you remain the same as you change is basically, as you mature you retain your relationship with the Lord and letting that drive your maturity! As you mature, your excitement, trust, joy and love of the Lord only grows not change and because it is growing, your relationship with the Lord grows and strengthen.

How does being childlike bring you closer to the Lord?

August 12th Daily Reflection

Sometimes I become doubtful that all my work and energy is being effective because I look around and see others progressing faster than I am progressing. However, today's devotion is a good reminder that focusing on whether I am being effective is in of itself ineffective! That by embracing my weakness, doubt and taking them to the Lord allows me to strengthen my relationship with him and by strengthen my relationship with the Lord, I can become even more effective than I could image. Smiling because of how simple and difficult it is to be close to the Lord!

How are you channeling your weakness into being closer to the Lord?

August 9th Daily Reflection

Righteousness, what does that mean? One meaning is
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the quality or state of being just or rightful: They came torealize the righteousness of her position on the matter.

Today's devotion talks about wearing the cloak of righteousness. I have always had trouble with the word righteousness because I feel that people use it to justify doing what I would righteously call evil deeds :-). Upon closer reading, I realize the cloak of righteousness is actually the cloak of righteousness of the Lord. The Lord is the one who determines what is righteous, not us! A new meaning to the word, a new way of being righteous. It is not us who determines what is just or rightful but the Lord and if we are wearing the cloak of righteousness of the Lord, then we are allowing him to be righeous and by doing so, we become closer to him since it is the Lord being the judge instead of us.

Is the cloak of righeousness of the Lord protecting or suffocating you?

August 7th Daily Reflection

I have a saying - your heart and head need to reconcile or you will feel out of sorts. Today's devotion talks about trying to understand what is going on around you instead of simply giving in to the Lord and trusting him for everything. When we try to understand, the comprehension is fleating and results in us feeling empty. However, if we can get our head and heart to reconcile that it is not important to understand anything but to simply trust in the Lord, peace will be with us and we get to experience heaven on earth.

How are you trusting in the Lord more than understanding helping you achieve peace?

August 6th Daily Reflection

Take your troubles to the Lord, I would say take your joys as well! The best reasons to stay in constant communications with the Lord! Simple words, difficult actions.

How are you staying in constant communications with the Lord?

Aug 3rd Daily Reflection

Being diligent with your words! I smiled when I read it because I have so many data points of experiencing this. Saying something without stopping to pray and become centered and then saying the same thing after I prayed and was centered and getting different responses and results. Of course, the positive responses are always derived from the times when I prayed and was centered. Part of being a conduit for the Lord's love is to be diligent with your words, a timely reminder.

how are you being diligent with your words?

August 2nd Daily Reflection

Spending time with the Lord. Last year, I thought this meant putting aside large chunks of time to being quite, then I realized that spending time with the Lord is something you do all day long. An example is last night I was at a meeting and by sharing my purpose in life - to be the conduit for the Lord's love - I was spending time with the Lord or when I took about 20 seconds and gave thanks for a good day. All simple examples of spending time with the Lord in a consistent manner through out the day.

How are you spending time with the Lord?

August 1st Daily Reflection

I was reading what I wrote last year and it was clear I didn't fully understand what it means to truly love oneself. However, a year later, numerous books and conversation on, I am getting it. Loving oneself is not really the goal, the true goal is loving the Lord so much that you have no choice but to love yourself and others because the Lord resides in all of us. Having such a deep love for the Lord that on earth it manifests itself as self love! Unconditional love of the Lord! It is unconditional love of the Lord that causes you to love everyone unconditionally. A year later, I get it, loving in the spiritual world produces great acts of love in the physical, however, we spend our time loving in the physical world and that's when we run into problems.

How are you loving the Lord in the spritual world?