My brothers we have a special and distinct role as Christian men fathers husbands and leaders in the family in the Church and in society at large. If we dont step up we run the risk of seeing our families overrun and absorbed by the surrounding culture. This is not acceptable. Start with prayer. Be faithful be consistent have courage show humility and remember . . . we are made for a heavenly home and not this world.
But never has the Call been so clearAs now when deaths cool handEases my spirit from my fevered body--And I answer the Call of the MasterThe Call to new Heights.
When I write that my own situation in those months of pain and decision can be described as prayer I do not only recall that during that time I sometimes read the Psalms and they became my psalms or that as I have also mentioned I occasionally cried Jesus and that name was my prayer but I mean that I also at times would shout Fuck and that was no obscenity but a most earnest prayerful utterance.In the final analysis no matter what the vocabulary of prayer or where muteness displaces words in prayer the contentwhat is communicated by a person in the world before Godin prayer is in each and every circumstance the same and it can be put plainly in one word HelpThat is the word of Gethsemanes prayer that is the word of the Lords Prayer that is the prayer when Christ repeats the Twenty-second Psalm from the cross.It is the prayer of Christ interceding for all people and it is the prayer of a human creature acknowledging Gods vocation in affirming the life which God has called into being.
Love is a two-way game you cannot truly love one who does not love you neither can you force them to love you and look past the hurtful deeds youve done. I learned that the hard way
You have been called. Know that. Understand that. Imprint it deep in your heart and set out on your mission in whatever way you can here and now The world is waiting for you.