Posts Tagged ‘nathan miller’
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Formation Toolbox: Life’s Toothpaste and God at the Doorbell
Preaching presents a few tough challenges:
As I approached the automatic airport check-in on my return flight from Madrid last Saturday, I saw and heard a life-sized hologram for the first time. She spoke Spanish.
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4 Formation Toolbox: Spiritual Health Secrets (for when You’re Under Fire)
By Nathan Miller We have already shown the difference between simple feelings of ups and downs possibly caused by a million things, and the essential next step, that is, the spiritual nature of consolation and desolation. I don...
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Are you really in-love?
By Nathan Miller "Good bye! See you later. At the latest in heaven!"There are three common answers to this farewell:1. "Hmmm, yeah, if there even IS a heaven."2. "If I make it."3. "Of course, just not too soon, I hope."We don't...
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The Sick Doctor
By Nathan Miller New popes, old popes ... popes I can still remember. At times I hear: "I still liked JPII better!"But when asked why, I've never heard: "Because he helped me be more patient with my husband." More often then no...
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Formation Toolbox: Blow the devil away
One of the greatest dangers of the spiritual life is" ... and then we could write a bunch of stuff.
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Formation Toolbox: Blow the devil away
"One of the greatest dangers of the spiritual life is" ... and then we could write a bunch of stuff.Of these many dangers St. Ignatius of Loyola pinpointed a few, for example one specific danger that cannot be overcome alone; b...
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Formation Toolbox: More of a burden
A little girl walked next to her daddy on the sidewalk. He reached his hand to accompany her by holding hers. Suddenly, she jerked her little hand away and said in her baby voice: "Daddy, I do it, I do it, Daddy.
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Formation Toolbox: The voices of air
By Nathan Miller As a quick summary of Ignatius' Rules of Discernment, we divided the types of souls into 3 categories: Underwater / Air / Space.It is important to remember how God and the devil speak to souls according to what...
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Formation Toolbox: Like incy, wincy spider monkeys
By Nathan Miller 5 monkeys huddled together whimpering under the rain. The water filtered through a massive hole in their tree-house covering and soaked them thoroughly. .
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Formation Toolbox: Bad/Good – It’s all the same
After that necessary first step, now, take those 5 virtues and 5 vices, and after each one pause and ask yourself a simple question...
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No one today praises Hitler for his Autobahns or the Volks...
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