Solomon tells us that “a happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing” (Proverbs 17:22, AMP ). God undoubtedly has a sense of humor; we need only look at some of the animals He created (it’s hard not to smile at the sight of a hippo, a monkey, or a puppy). Or think of some of the married couples you know: don’t you think God was smiling at the wedding as He looked ahead to the interaction of the wildly different personalities that will be living together?Posts Tagged ‘catholicism’
Ash Wednesday
Growing up in the Church of Christ, Easter was nothing more than an opportunity for candy and perhaps some new clothes. We took communion every Sunday and talked about the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ regularly, so Easter was not treated as different from any other Sunday of the year…
New fervor among young Italian Catholics
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)
In Vietnam, Christianity gains quietly
In Vietnam, Christianity gains quietly: “Catholics are enjoying greater freedom in Vietnam. Some say the country’s economic liberalization is helping by opening the country to a free flow of ideas and information that is part and parcel of a modernized society. ‘Integration into the world means opportunities for dialogue with each other…’ ” (from the Christian Science Monitor)
“not our conception but our Lord”
But what does it mean when we call this God a living God? It means that this God is not a conclusion we have reached by thinking, which we now offer to others in the certainty of our own perception and understanding; if it were just a matter of that, then this God would never be more than a human idea,…
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