January 31, 2002
Blue Journal
“Simply by making us wait he increases our desire, which in turn enlarges the capacity of our soul, making it able to receive what is to be given to us.” (St. Augustine)
All He can do
December 25, 2001
Blue Journal
“Never be afraid of God. All He can do is love.” (St. Therese in vision to Marie-Michel Marcel Van)
When in the dark
The least understood
December 11, 2001
Blue Journal
“Jesus chooses for each person the type of suffering which He sees is most suited to sanctify that person, and often the cross which He imposes is the one which, accepting all the others, one would have refused if one had dared. The one He gives is that which one understands the least.” (Charles de Foucauld)
My Own Heart
My Own Heart
My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
I cast for comfort I can no more get
By groping round my comfortless, than blind
Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find
Thirst’s all-in-all in all a world of wet.
Soul, self; come, poor Jackself, I do advise
You, jaded, let be; call off thoughts awhile
Elsewhere; leave comfort root-room; let joy size
At God knows when to God knows what; whose smile
‘s not wrung, see you; unforeseen times rather—as skies
Betweenpie mountains—lights a lovely mile.
Abundant cause for gratitude
June 6, 2001
Blue Journal
“And if you have nothing more to thank God for than that He bears with you and spares you and waits for you and is so utterly forbearing about all your unruly ways, which never give Him a chance to achieve all His great designs in you, surely in this alone, you have abundant cause for gratitude.” (John Tauler)
Faith
April 25, 2001
Blue Journal
“Faith is the acknowledgement of one’s own helplessness and the awaiting of everything from God.” (Fr. Tadeusz Dajczer)
The most common word for worship
April 7, 2001
The Blue Journal
“The most common word for worship in the New Testament comes sixty-six times. It could be translated ‘I come toward to kiss.'” (David Watson)
Nothing that you do
February 8, 2001
The Blue Journal
“Nothing that you do or can do pleases me as much as when you believe that I love you.” (St. Catherine of Siena)
More for the Church
December 22, 2000
Blue Journal
“The soul immolated to God in the nudity of pure faith, of hope and perfect union does more for the Church in an hour than others (more mediocre and less generous) do in their whole life.” (Bl. Columba Marmion)
Witnesses to Hope 