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    Learning to Forgive

    Take 10 minutes to quietly pray and while praying think of one person who has wronged you.  Ask God to help you to let go and forgive. Click here for today’s reading.  “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful… For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.” So many “religious” roads lead to the same answer:  love your neighbor as yourself, do unto others as you would have them do unto you; measure out to others as you want to be measured; forgive us our trespasses as we forgive others.  I think you get it.  But yet, on the highway, I am kind of happy when…

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    Discipline Takes Practice. Keep Going.

    Let’s think about our most vexing fault and today – with God’s help – avoid it.  And then, try it again tomorrow too. Click here for today’s reading:   Ezekiel 18:21-28  Thus says the Lord GOD: If the wicked man turns away from all the sins he committed,  if he keeps all my statutes and does what is right and just, he shall surely live, he shall not die.  God really does want to save us. He knows that we can be bad. Some of us more than others.  Maybe a few (hopefully) deserve to actually be called “wicked.” I’ll leave that designation to God, but God even wants those…

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    We All Need Help

      Think about the loneliest, most isolated person you know.  Text, email or call that person today and check up on him/her. Click here for today’s reading: Matthew 7:7-12 Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.  This is the law and the prophets. It’s so obvious, and yet sometimes it’s so hard to want for others what we want for ourselves. My favorite example is this. On a freeway, somebody goes speeding past us and down the road. The person gets pulled over. How many times have we thought or said: “Good. He deserved it.”  Ah, but what about the time we were in a hurry…

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    Taking Small Steps to a Better You

    How about 1 hour today without internet, social media, etc… You choose the hour. During that hour say a special prayer for the Christians displaced from the Nineveh Plains.  Click here for today’s readings:   Jonah 3:1-10 When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil that He had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.   Jonah, the whale, Nineveh, the king.  Today, don’t worry about Jonah and the whale, but Jonah the preacher of repentance.  He preached and Nineveh listened – even the king who led the way.  No one is exempt from Lent’s call…

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    Jesus Teaches Us to Pray

    Say a short prayer about something you care about (two tweets worth). If it isn’t too sensitive and personal, maybe you could post two tweets.  It might help somebody else. Click here for today’s reading. Matthew 6:7-15 “Don’t babble like the pagans…This how you are to pray: Our Father who art in heaven…” Did you know the Our Father is about two tweets long. Maybe the reason God wanted us to be short in our words to Him is because he wanted to make sure we left time for him to speak to us.  When at a loss for words, use the Our Father.  When using our own, keep it…