My Articulate Heart

When I love; I gain. When I'm broken I'm made strong. In my weakness you triumph. Despite this knowledge I fail. Help me Lord find my real essence, the true me. If i'm made like you, what is in me that is causing my inability to forgive. Where does these emotions come from? where does ego come from? Why do I feel betrayed, unaccepted and unloved. Why do I even want to be loved and accepted? You cried out from the cross "Father forgive, for they know not what they do". Did you not have emotions, ego and pain? How did you handle it? Was it your mission or your love unconditional or both that gave you strength? What is my mission, purpose and nature? It is to love unconditionally and be broken to nourish others like you did. I realize then how much more I must do this for the women of my life whom you gave me. I fight with You over the gift I have received from You. You could not have made a mistake. It is a perfect gift!. It is my imperfections that question t...

It has always been an experience being with little children. Their innocence, simplicity, honesty, generous laughter and a life without an agenda. It is a perfect image of a child of God. As an adult, how do we loose these qualities. Is it our up bringing or the choices we make or both?  I'm a father now. It is up to me today to to walk by my children and help them choose what is worth so they preserve their innocence and simplicity and never let them loose it. 

God is invisible. We cannot see Him with our eyes, touch Him with our hands, or capture Him in an image. And yet, something extraordinary happened. God took the form of a human person. The eternal Word became flesh. Jesus had a real human body. He had hands that touched people, feet that walked the roads of Galilee, eyes that looked upon those He loved, and a face that His Mother could gaze upon. He was not an idea. He was not a philosophical concept. He was not an invisible force. He was a Person. So why should I venerate Him in a vacuum? When I look upon an image of Christ, I am not claiming that the paint, wood, or stone is God. Nor am I worshipping the material object. I am allowing something visible to direct my mind and heart toward the Person represented. A photograph of someone I love is not the person himself. Yet I may kiss it, hold it close, or look at it with affection because the image brings the person I love before me. How much more, then, can an image of Christ remind m...

Father, Your love for me is constant. My love for You is not. It totally depends on my mood and feelings. I feel differently at different times. I get hurt and I switch modes. I have negative feelings when things go against my will and expectations. Is the culprit then my will and my expectations or is it my emotions? For I know the plans I have for you, declared the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  God's will is good, pleasing and perfect.  God, I know you have a perfect will for me. Do I need to have my own will then? If I join my will to Your will, do I need to expect at all? Cause you bring to fruition all things beyond my expectation. Emotions they respond to my deposition like a mirror. If I smile, she will smile back and if I frown she will do the same. To have my own will is a gift God has given me out of his great love and respect. Father may your will be done in my lif...