April 17, 2026
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April 17, 2026

Bring Your Body Home

In Jesus, God took on human flesh. The Spirit of God overshadowed Mary, and in her all enmity between spirit and body was overcome.

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April 16, 2026
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April 16, 2026

 Called to Inner Unity

Right now you experience an inner duality; your emotions, passions, and feelings seem separate from your heart. The needs of your body seem separate from your deeper self.

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April 15, 2026
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April 15, 2026

Safe at Home

Home is where you are truly safe. It is where you can receive what you desire.

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April 14, 2026
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April 14, 2026

God’s Love is Enough

You have to trust the place that is solid, the place where you can say yes to God’s love even when you do not feel it.

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April 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026

Divine Sacred Space

With your divinely endowed center, you know God’s will, God‘s way, God‘s love.

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April 12, 2026
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April 12, 2026

Trusting the Inner Voice

Conversion is certainly not something you can bring about yourself. It is not a question of willpower.

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April 11, 2026
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April 11, 2026

God is Faithful

God is faithful to God‘s promises. Before you die, you will find the acceptance and the love you crave.

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April 10, 2026
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April 10, 2026

What is of God Will Last

Remember, you are held safe. You are loved. You are protected.

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April 9, 2026
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April 9, 2026

Just Trust Me

God says to you, “I love you, I am with you, I want to see you come closer to me and experience the joy and peace of my presence.

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April 8, 2026
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April 8, 2026

Already Found

The spiritual life is a long and often arduous search for what you have already found.

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April 7, 2026
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April 7, 2026

Your Heart Is Greater Than Your Wounds

It is better to cry than to worry, better to feel your wounds deeply than to understand them, better to let them enter into your silence, then to talk about them.

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April 6, 2026
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April 6, 2026

Doing God’s Will

Try to give your agenda to God. Keep saying, “Your will be done, not mine.” Give every part of your heart and your time to God and let God tell you what to do, where to go, when and how to respond.

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April 5, 2026
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April 5, 2026

Easter Sunday

The resurrection of Jesus simplifies everything. Life is so complex. There are so, so many memories, so many events, so many possibilities. 

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April 4, 2026
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April 4, 2026

Holy Saturday

Emptiness and fullness at first seem complete opposites. But in the spiritual life they are not. In the spiritual life we find the fulfilment of our deepest desires by becoming empty for God.

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April 3, 2026
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April 3, 2026

Good Friday

Good Friday: day of the cross, day of suffering, day of hope, day of abandonment, day of victory, day of mourning, day of joy, day of endings, day of beginnings. . . .

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April 2, 2026
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April 2, 2026

Clinging to the Love of Jesus

What is important is to keep clinging to the real, lasting, and unambiguous love of Jesus. 

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April 1, 2026
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April 1, 2026

The Victory of Jesus

Jesus has called you from the moment you were knitted together in your mother‘s womb. 

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March 31, 2026
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March 31, 2026

Peeling Off Our Blind-Folds

We are called to be contemplatives, that is see-ers, men and women who are called to see the coming of God. 

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March 30, 2026
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March 30, 2026

Giving and Multiplying

What we hold on to always diminishes. What we give away always multiplies. It is the great illogic. 

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March 29, 2026
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March 29, 2026

God Longs for Our Love

Augustine said: “My soul is restless until it rests in you, O God,” but when I examine the tortuous story of our own salvation, I see not only that we are yearning to belong to God, but that God is also yearning to belong to us.

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