Topic: GROW: Spiritual Formation

Willpower, Knowledge, and a Zap from God: helpful, hurtful, or in need of something more?

We don’t wake up suddenly spiritual.

You are being formed every day in every way. But will you be formed into the likeness of Christ?

Could it be that “doing more” is actually standing in the way of “being with”?

What if the reward for following Jesus…is Jesus? What if gazing upon the beauty of the Lord was its own reward? Welcome to the power of contemplative prayer.

Where is your emotional home? What if it was Jesus? And what if you practiced his presence so that everywhere felt like home?

We are good at working for or being for others. But maybe we need to learn how to “be with.”

We tend to think of our baptism as our day of choosing. But today…and every day…will we choose Christ or ourselves?

Recognize what God has done through Christ–the only source of power. Respond with love to become all that he called us to become through His power. And seek to imitate, so that we might bring up “little Christs.”