Religion

SoulScribe on November 16th, 2013

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. Flannery O’Connor The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor

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SoulScribe on May 6th, 2009

Man is what he believes.  Anton Chekhov 

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SoulScribe on April 22nd, 2009

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Cherokee saying

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SoulScribe on April 16th, 2009

And for us this is the end of all the stories.  All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on Earth has read…in which every chapter is better than the one before. […]

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SoulScribe on April 13th, 2009

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the death of our Lord and his broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on the way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into […]

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SoulScribe on April 9th, 2009

God calls us to lead lives of holiness.  Jesus gave the most perfect example with his own life.  But he gave us other examples of holiness in his own mother, the Virgin Mary, and the saints. Saints are people to whom we can relate, essentially role models for the faithful.  Saints do not forget those […]

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SoulScribe on March 25th, 2009

“Hope” is the thing with feathers —
 That perches in the soul — 
And sings the tune without the words —
 And never stops — at all — Emily Dickinson

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SoulScribe on March 17th, 2009

Stand by the roads and look, ask for the ancient path, which is the way to good.  Walk on it and find rest for your soul. Jeremiah 6:16

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SoulScribe on March 5th, 2009

The etymology (fancy name for where a word comes from) of the word vocation takes it back to the word voice.  I love the idea of that relationship. My vocation is my voice in the world.  It’s what I’m charged to do every day.  My voice is my vocation. As a writer, voice is that […]

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SoulScribe on February 18th, 2009

We get so caught up in the nitty gritty of rules and judgments that we forget.  It’s not about the rules. It’s about how you treat people.  It’s about finding that person in the corner and finding out who they are.  It’s walking the talk and how you live each day.  What kind of good […]

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