Burning Hearts

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Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope that you find it helpful and enriching. Here I share my life’s lessons, garnered from living my Catholic faith through the ups and downs, including mental health challenges.

Posts

  • Reaching for Healing

    Last post I was challenged to have faith in God’s healing power and His love for me, and to see healing primarily as freedom from sin. In short, I RECOGNIZED my need for healing and the possibility of accepting that freedom.  First, I RECOGNIZE, but then I must REACH. A most strikingly evident example of…

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  • Recognizing Our Brokenness: A Path to Healing

    In the synoptic Gospels, we find: lepers, fevers, blindness, hemorrhages, paralytics, deaf, mute, crippled, and even the dead.  Above all we find the sinner.  It is to these people that Christ has come. In Luke 5:31, Jesus says: “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.  I have not come to…

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  • Fascination with Fire

    Fire has fascinated me for a very long time. Not in a “I want to burn everything” sense, but perhaps you could say in a more philosophical way. I remember a time when I was watching a fire burn in a firepit. I was mesmerized by the flames dancing around and consuming the wood, while…

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