Is anything truly impossible Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow It seems to me that if you seek hard enough pray hard enough you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.

Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother God is holy and sinless He is a just judge of evil and the enemy of all disobedience. But a brother is sinful as we are. He knows from his own experience the dark night of secret sin. Why should we not find it easier to go to a brother than to the holy God But if we do we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of sin to God whether we have not rather been confessing our sins to ourselves and also granting ourselves absolution...Who can give us the certainty that in the confession and the forgiveness of our sins we are not dealing with ourselves but with the living God God gives us this certainty through our brother. Our brother breaks the circle of self-deception. A man who confesses his sins in the presence of a brother knows that he is no longer alone with himself he experiences the presence of God in the reality of the other person.

Mother Teresa said that she couldnt imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we cant imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer

Hanging laundry on a line is a very ordinary task. It is as ordinary as scraped knees and lost keys as fixing the same simple dish for supper again and again. Ordinary is most days and Lord helps is if we overlook them.

I also learned that prayer is not as much about getting God to act in certain ways as it is about getting to the heart of God and getting my heart to reflect His heart.

All the seeming coincidences .... were actually God catching me in his arms.

High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on Gods grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride which goes before a fall Prov 1618. Humility without ambition is false humility.

Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbelievers prayer.

Make prayer a top priority rather than a last resort.

Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God we must not give any part to idols to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.