Maureen O'Brien

If we wake with troubled or lonely hearts, we can remember right away that we are not alone. No matter our situation, he promises to find us.

The words of The Lord’s Prayer are so familiar to us that sometimes it helps to pause on lines of the prayer and go deeper within them.

In the multiplication of the loaves miracle Jesus fed the crowd, and when there was bread left over he instructed, “Gather the fragments.” Think of aspects of your past that can still be healed. 

Jesus said, “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.” (John 15:11)

In my worry about family members, I sometimes forget that there is always hope—in God. Are there moments you feel you must fix things, forgetting that God is there?