"Because there are journeys I must travel alone."
Here are some of the things I have written/read on my second solitude retreat. Let me place it hear, for me to be reminded every once in a while.
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Seek the good of others. 1 Cr 10:23
All are essential. 1 Cr 12:22-25
Love. 1 Cr 13:4-13
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Be clean inside. Let God be the ultimate desire. Disregard the superficial desires, things of the outside. God will bring peace.
(Homily)
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Faith, if it does not have works, is dead. Jm 3:17
For one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin. Jm 4:17
No longer I, but Christ in me. Gal 2:20
If we hope for what we do not see, we wait with endurance. Rm 8:25
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Even though I am not what I want to be, I am not what I used to be.
"Help me run the race that is before me with patience, not to run too fast and not to make things happen in my future, but to let Your will be worked out in my life."
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The creaking of the swings still gives the same sound. The landscape still has its familiar color and shape. The room still has the same peace and warmth inside.
Far away from the noisy city, I'm reliving the same experience I had the first time I was here.
I came here before to mend a broken heart.
I came here again to rekindle the fire burning within me.
The heart has been completely healed : filled with joy and peace.
The fire keeps on burning and found itself a new reason to keep on being ablaze.
Setting aside matters of the world, putting my priorities in place.
The first and the last. The beginning and the end.
Discernment.
Peace.
Courage.
Dreams.
Desires.
Destination.
Let me make the right decisions this time.
To go after my dreams, or to look for something new.
To accept another opportunity to serve.
Let me hear Your voice.
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Encourage one another and build one another up. 1 Thes 5:11
Name above all names. Ph 2:9
"Let us ask for grace not to tire of asking forgiveness, because He never tires forgiving."
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Jn 1:5
While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of the light. Jn 12:3-6
If you ask for anything of me in my name, I will do it. Jn 12:14
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you. Jn 15:27
Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Rm 10:13
None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. Rm 14:7
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"Help me to keep a good attitude and a cheerful heart no matter what I am facing."
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We walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Cr 5:7
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A time for everything. Ec 3:1-15
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For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Cor 2:10
The Lord is faithful; He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
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Macoy. October 14-16, 2013.
