Holy Spirit

There's an elephant in the room. The problem we keep turning away from, feeling either powerless to solve it or unwilling to do the hard work necessary to put it behind us. Try as we might to ignore it, there comes a time when we either…
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I'm not the man God is calling me to be. A little more than 10 years ago, I didn't care who God was calling me to be. I wasn't listening to him. I believed he existed but I knew nothing about him, or His son, or the Holy Spirit. But in…
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Even though I'd sworn off working another Confirmation Mass, I'd still have to face large crowds at Mass and all the internal conflicts that come with them. The Easter following that fateful Confirmation Mass, our 11:30AM team was up.…
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I was watching #Evan Almighty over Thanksgiving and three messages in that movie were crystal clear to me. The first was one of perseverance in the face of persecution. People thought Evan was a joke, a laughingstock but he stayed the…
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So I was driving to work this morning and a thought came to me while I was listening to #Catholic radio. A priest was being interviewed and he was talking about the #second coming. The thought was one I'd had before... I hope #jesus…
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Today is my 12th wedding anniversary and I find myself in a reflective mood. As I look back, one word comes to mind - #evangelization. This wonderful charism my wife was given by the #holy spirit is the single biggest reason behind…
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This morning I learned a friend and Brother in Christ was diagnosed with colon cancer. The prognosis is good but the next year of treatment and healing will be tough. Pray for him, his wife, their three girls, and baby boy due in January.…
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It was 2006 and I was big into #The Secret. I had the video and then I bought the book. I swear to you I lost 7 lbs in one week by doing nothing more than thinking about losing weight. (That freaked me out. So much so I didn’t follow…
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The last few months have been filled with fear, doubt, uncertainty, and depression over the changes in my job title and duties. All things considered, I got a pretty good deal. I've not been financially impacted and I won't be until the end…
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Brothers and sisters, I didn't leave you. I wouldn't dare - not without saying something anyway. Just took some time to think, rest, be lazy, procrastinate, shovel snow, watch soccer and a few other things so trivial I can't remember them…
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On Saturday night, the cold that knocked Jenny and Jack out of action found its way to me. I was in bed a majority of the day both Sunday and Monday, killing forests full of trees with my tissue usage. Some people lose their appetites when…
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#God had a plan. Oh yes he did. So many things to accomplish, so many things to be learned through living them. The chain of events was perfect – what else could we expect from our Lord. I needed to become present in my family’s lives.…
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by Todd Marsha I would love to say our neighbors in each city we've lived in have been welcoming, accommodating, and genuinely nice people from the moment we moved in but, sadly, that's not been the case. Unfortunately we've lived places…
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I admit I’ve never been good at switching gears right in the middle of something but now I had no choice. I applied for FMLA and dedicated myself to taking care of Jenny and Jack. For the next 2 weeks I was no longer the dad who left for…
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Brothers and Sisters, I heard this song the other day and told myself, "Ok, remember how it goes so you can look it up online later." Wouldn't you know when I tried to remember the song the next day...nuthin'. I asked God to give me a…
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Brothers and Sisters, I like to kid with my wife about Josh Groban's voice. It's a marvelous singing voice but my personal opinion is he overdoes the vibrato (I haven't been a musician since 7th grade so my use of terminology may be…
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I guess we were all overdue for a test – a big one. We'd planned everything out pretty darn well. #Jennifer knew when she was going to shop and which groceries she'd buy for the whole month. She wanted to go to a haunted house with her…
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I’ve never read Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus but I’ve heard enough about the book to know men and women come at things from different perspectives, have different needs, and feel things much differently than one another. Still,…
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Almost two weeks have passed since I began an elimination diet. For nearly a fortnight I've eaten no grains, no diary and no sugar. Things have changed and mostly for better. The itching is gone. The bloating is gone. The gas is mostly…
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I was actually “on schedule” leaving the house for the first time all week. Still I hurried to the gym so I wouldn’t lose any valuable time. The parking lot at Lifetime Fitness had been pretty empty this week, due to the first week of…
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