Posts by Arrowood
Whose Day Will You Brighten
The best gifts we can give are often those that don’t cost any money, but that let people know we haven’t forgotten them. We can give these gifts even to people we don’t know!
Read MoreWhen You Encounter a Family in Crisis…
Helping a family in crisis can be difficult. You never know what they really need. Today’s reflection talks about where to start giving when a family is in need.
Read MoreThe Boomerang Gift
Christians are not altruists. We don’t give and expect nothing in return. We give to store up treasure in Heaven, and to build up the Kingdom of God, which benefits all of us. Listen to this story!
Read MoreFinding Strength
Reflecting on the spirituality of giving also means reflecting on the spirituality of receiving. What gifts from God do you need to be more aware of?
Read MoreWhen Everything Changes…
[wp_ticker ticker_title=”Notice” effect=”slide-h” category=”704″] “Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.” – James 1: 17, Douay-Rheims Sharon has been going through a season of change in her life. There have been positive changes like the…
Read MoreWhat’s Your Story?
Do you feel you don’t have any stories to share with others? It’s not as hard as it seems – when you start with gratitude!
Read MoreWill This Advent Be Different?
There’s an old saying: “If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.” God wants Advent to be a time of preparing our hearts to receive MORE from Him. MORE grace. MORE blessing. But it’s so easy for us to fall into the same old ruts that fails to…
Read MoreSecond Week of Advent: The Week of Peace
The theme for the second week of Advent is peace. Too often our understanding of the word “peace” is limited to worldly peace – the absence of war. But the word peace – as proclaimed by the angels to the shepherds at the birth of Jesus – has a much more spiritual significance. “Glory to…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Prudence – No Margin Ned: Family
The virtue of prudence is the virtue of knowing what is good and making a plan to attain it. Aside from our relationship with God, there is no greater good than our family relationships. Pope John Paul II called the family the “school of love.” It’s the main place where we learn to love selflessly…
Read MoreWhy Do We Pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary?
One question I get most often form non-Catholics, but also sometimes from Catholics, is why we pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the saints. Redeemed Into the Family of God The simple but really, really important answer is this: we pray to Mary and the saints because we are all the Family of…
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