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opportunities

A quote from Evan Almighty Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them...

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Take Your Time

Take time to work. It is the price of success. Take time to meditate. It is the source of power. Take time to play. It is the secret of perpetual youth. Take time to read. It is the way to knowledge. Take time to be friendly. It is the road to happiness. Take time to laugh. It is the music of the soul. And take time to love and be loved. (quoted from Dr. Zimmerman‘s Tuesday...

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Are you busy?

A couple of weeks ago, my roomie told me about IgnatiusLoyola.net. It is a website about Ignatian Spirituality, a spirituality that has been growing on me ever since Frater Pater Koko taught it in my early Loyola days. So I am familiar with the material there, from the infamous spiritual exercise, the examen of consciusness to what is consolation/desolation and how we’re supposed to act when...

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Hand in Heaven

Tony Melendez “You be His feet and His hands. I say this without the hands, but you might have.” People have asked me “Tony, where are the miracles?” I always say: “I see the hand, one hand, and when somebody raises a hand… for me that is a miracle” Please don’t tell me that you can’t… because you can do much more. Just say “I want, I can and I’m going to do...