Like a baby
My prayer is help
A soft cry
Or loud wail:
Help me Father
Help me Jesus
Help me Holy Spirit
Help me Mary
Help me Joseph
Help me Michael
Help me Angel who guards me
Help me all you radiant saints.
Love me
Help me
Thank You
I love You
I am Yours
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Most Christians want to be closer to God. The early Christians had the same hunger. In the Egyptian desert, a monk named Germanus asked an elderly father named Isaac the same question you might ask: how does a person actually live close to God, not just believe in Him from a distance? Isaac’s answer was recorded by John Cassian in Conference 10. It is four steps. And anyone can begin today. The Goal Every human being wants joy that lasts. Not a moment of happiness that fades. Not comfort that...
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“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” — Matthew 18:3 What Jesus Actually Said He didn’t say become childlike in sentiment. He didn’t say recover a sense of wonder, though that may come. He said become like children. Present tense. A change. A becoming. It is worth sitting with that before we rush past it. What a Child Actually Is Think about what a small child actually is, in the most concrete terms. Without their...
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Abbot Isaac was a 5th century monk who knew how to find God. This is what he taught. 1) Joy and Union This is where we are headed. Action Pray this daily (adapted from Abbot Isaac): Jesus, my King, You prayed to our Father for me, my family, and the entire world; “That the love that You [,Father,] loved Me may be in them and they in Us;” And, “that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in us” Let Your perfect love, with which “[You] first loved...
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