Author: Gwenda Coté (page 19)

Will we have the love, courage, and faith of a 14-year-old girl in Nazareth?

When we are centered in God’s peace, we can coexist with unrest and anxiety. Rather than being overpowered by upset, we transform it.

Temporary emotions of happiness, sadness, fear, or even lethargy and apathy, despite their power, do not have the strength to extinguish the light of God’s Joy.

Trying to mask the feelings that weigh us down with a happy face only deepens the feelings of isolation and sorrow.

Gut hope is hope that lives deep inside us and promises us that we are not alone. It is a hope that assures us that God knows our name, and our heart is carved from His own heart.

When we grow closer and closer to God, we become so much a part of God that we respond as God would respond.

We are the caretakers of both the extraordinary and humble gifts that God has given us.

A belt, suspenders, a rope, and safety pins don’t make us ready for anything. Only the wholehearted prayer of our soul can do that.

We have never needed the beatitudes more than now.