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Time To Renew Your WHY!

BlogNovember 15, 2021365Views0Likes1Comment
He's just the latest to articulate well a timeless principle enshrined in the wisdom of the ages. Simon Sinek's helpful book "Start With Why" is a bestseller precisely because of this reality. I found it so compelling that I bought a copy of the book for each parish council member in my parish. Wise leaders have…

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Do You Know HOW to Stay Faithful?

BlogNovember 11, 2021433Views0Likes0Comments
Our busy lives really do challenge us in keeping our priorities in the right order, don’t they? We moderns are a complicated mishmash of schedules, opportunities, affluence, and “freedom.” And that multiplication of events, desires, hopes, and advertisements don’t seem to be slowing down. It seems that each new day brings a new barrage of…

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Your Eternal Reality

BlogNovember 10, 2021373Views0Likes0Comments
Listen to what St. Theophan the Recluse says in his brilliant “Unseen Warfare”: “Refuse to listen to the devil when he whispers to you: give me now, and you will give tomorrow to God. No, no! Spend all the hours of your life in a way pleasing to God; keep in your mind the thought that…

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WAKE UP!

BlogNovember 9, 2021430Views0Likes2Comments
In pagan Greek mythology, Hypnos is the god of sleep and his brother is Thanos, the god of death. They both live in Hades and Hypnos lives in a cave that is the mouth of the River Lethe and that means "forgetfulness." I'm sensing a symbolic opportunity here! And the symbolic opportunity revolves around the persistent…

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Angels Are Real!

BlogNovember 8, 2021561Views0Likes0Comments
St. John Climacus, the author of "The Ladder of Divine Ascent," once said "Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons." Humility is what kept 2/3rds of the angels in heaven and pride is…

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Are You Afraid?

BlogNovember 5, 2021436Views0Likes0Comments
It scared me to death! I was convinced something was lurking in the dark in my room, and I wasn't about to shut my eyes! After all, it was only my constant vigilance and watchfulness that was keeping whatever was "out there" away from me, right? Imagine my surprise when sleep finally took me and…

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Woe To You Hypocrites

BlogNovember 4, 2021416Views0Likes1Comment
One of the greatest attractions to me towards the Orthodox Church was the continuity of practice and, more importantly, a real connection to the People of God. There’s an old story about a British journalist visiting the library of one of the ancient monasteries on Mt. Athos in Greece. He was walking among the stacks with the…

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Do You Know WHY?

BlogNovember 3, 2021371Views0Likes1Comment
The playground bully was speechless. He was bigger than me. He was stronger than me. And he was better at fighting than me in every way except one. I was faster on my feet with a verbal response. He had just taunted me about being a "weak, mama's boy" and I responded, "I know you…

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Where Are You Distracted?

BlogNovember 2, 2021526Views0Likes0Comments
Distracted again! And once again the familiar reminder! "Sweetheart, stop watching the IPad and finish your homework." Back to the task, but slowly the distraction returns, and the pull of what I want rather than what I need starts its all too familiar tug of war inside my precious daughter. But, hey, she's young, She…

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