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Humility is the first step Acknowledging that you cannot Pull the right strings, making life dance to your beat, or Push the right buttons to guarantee the future You have in mind. Now is the time! the...
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A prayer from Thomas Merton: My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me, I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that...
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Senator Barack Obama delivered the commencement address today at Southern New Hampshire University. He talked of three lessons he had learned about growing up, about becoming an adult and putting away...
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On our way home to Iowa from our vacation in Maine, we stayed with a friend in Oneonta, New York, and visited the National Soccer Hall of Fame. On August 26, Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy will be honored...
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From I Like Being Five Years Old, an entry by Debi Sanders last week on the inward/outward website: My friend Kim, who worked with Good Shepherd Ministries for the last ten years, just returned from a...
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Rachel Simons lives in Galati, Romania, a field worker with Word Made Flesh, an Christian organization committed to “serving Jesus among the poorest of the poor.” She works with Galati’s street...
View Article“i will not die an unlived life”
I like the sentiment expressed in this poem by Dawna Markova posted today on the inward/outward website: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of...
View Article“what do i know of holy”
I made you promises a thousand times. I’ve tried to hear from heaven, but I talked the whole time. I think I made you too small. I never feared you at all, no … If you touched my face, would I know...
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This poem by David Wagoner, entitled “Lost” was posted on April 18th at the inward/outward website … Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,...
View Articlewhat makes the soul great
Notice the Wonder was posted today on the inward/outward website. It quotes Abraham Heschel, a theologian and a lover of God whom I have always found most insightful and eloquent. To pray is to take...
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