New fervor among young Italian Catholics: “I experimented with everything you can experiment with to find happiness. Now that I’ve left everything, I’ve found everything.” So says a 31-year-old Italian woman who took her final vows to become a cloistered nun. Sounds remarkably like Matthew 16:25: “whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.” (from csmonitor.com)
From the monthly archives:
February 2006
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Lord, catch me off guard today.
Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain
So that at least for the moment
I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor,
Always and everywhere,
Barely hidden,
Beneath,
Beyond,
Within this life I breathe.
Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain
So that at least for the moment
I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor,
Always and everywhere,
Barely hidden,
Beneath,
Beyond,
Within this life I breathe.
–Frederick Buechner
Charis means grace, and that’s what this blog is about: grace, in all its—sometimes messy, always magnificent—manifestations. I’m Dan Butcher, and I invite you to join me in learning to lead a Christ-centered, grace-filled life.