and so i dance around on the tip of my tounge ( Read more... )

a beautiful desolation... pain that has meaning, but pain nontheless.

Ever wonder about how the spiritual realm and physical realm are so separated, but so joined together, even in us, who have a body and soul? it's beautiful, even though it's fallen, and then as Christ came to restore us, more breathtaking than ever. All that my mind can concieve isn't enough for my heart, and my heart, by His grace, confirms that ( Read more... )

If breathing is to the body what prayer is to the soul, then my soul needs to catch its breath.

'Can I share something amazing about time? JP was at a big meeting with a massive amount of journalists who were asking him questions and the question came up about his schedule. It took quite a while for JP to go through many of the different details of his long tightly packed days. A journalist proceeded to ask him, “Holy Father, what do you do ( Read more... )

Tommy: Ever have one of those moments where books attack you?

Me: All the time.

Tommy: *pulls book he's holding into face and starts screaming*

“We must become a longing for God. The Fathers of the Church say that

prayer properly understood is nothing other than becoming a longing for

God. In Mary this petition had been granted; she is, as it were, the

open vessel of longing, in which life becomes prayer and prayer becomes

life.” --- Pope Benedict XVI

"My dearest daughter, we have here at Annecy a Capuchin painter who, as you may think, only paints for God and His temple. And although while working he has to pay so close an attention that he cannot pray at the same time, and although this occupies and even fatigues his spirit, still he does this work with good heart for the glory of our Lord, ( Read more... )

Happy Cinco de Mayo y'all. And on top of that, I've turned into a pill-popping beast ( Read more... )

my new favorite expression = holy cowpies!

'an I been saying it a lot today. I think I just gotta

let it ooouuuttt!

that my mind makes complicated whats simple. its frustrating, masticating the same 'ol same 'ol, dug myself into this hole

let it ooouuuttt! don't make me tickle you. (what ( Read more... )