April 26, 2026
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April 26, 2026

Seeing Jesus in Your True Self

You complain that it is hard for you to pray, to experience the love of Jesus. But Jesus dwells in your fearful, never fully received self.

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April 25, 2026
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April 25, 2026

Receiving the Affection of Jesus

Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years.

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April 24, 2026
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April 24, 2026

Breaking Down Hierarchy

Think about Jesus. He was totally free before the authorities of his time.

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April 23, 2026
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April 23, 2026

A Task of the Heart

The spiritual task is not to escape your loneliness, not to let yourself drown in it, but to find its source.

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April 22, 2026
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April 22, 2026

Your Unique Call

 A new spirituality is being born in you. Not body denying or body indulging but truly incarnation.

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April 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026

 Just Stay There

A seed only flourishes by staying in the ground in which it is sown. 

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April 20, 2026
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April 20, 2026

A Beautiful Self

God has given you a beautiful self. There God dwells and loves you with the first love, which precedes all human love. 

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April 19, 2026
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April 19, 2026

The New Place

You have to begin to trust that your experience of emptiness is not the final experience, that beyond it is a place where you are being held in love. 

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April 18, 2026
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April 18, 2026

Rest in God’s Peace

Your main question should always be whether something is lived with or without God. You have your own inner knowledge to answer that question.

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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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