by Lynne Marie | May 27, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Gentleness Is Abandonment We may experience the lack of Gentleness more than anything else in daily life. We blame ourselves—and others—for impatience, speaking harshly, pushing instead of persuading, ordering instead of asking. For using fear of...
by Lynne Marie | May 26, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Faithfulness Is Relationship The fruit of Faithfulness appears when it is evident that everything one does is an act of living out one’s personal relationship with God. And this relationship is one of faith; that is, knowledge of God as Person—Three...
by Lynne Marie | May 24, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Example Inspires Generosity In Matthew 5:39, 40, 41, the Kindness that expresses Patient Endurance appears in acts of overwhelming Generosity: turning the other cheek, giving a cloak as well as a coat, walking another mile. Only Christ’s example...
by Lynne Marie | May 24, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Kindness Is Divine Jesus teaches us not just to endure evil, but to respond to it actively, with Kindness. Pope Francis says this word “makes it clear that ‘Patience’ is not a completely passive attitude, but one accompanied by activity, by a...
by Lynne Marie | May 23, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Priorities Give Patient Endurance Impatience comes from frustration, being blocked from achieving what we desire. If other people are responsible, we feel like punishing them. We show human patience if we reprove them without anger, saying only what it is...