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Monday 01/13/2003
When our youth taste the truth, when they feel compassion, when they know the joy that comes through serving, when they feel the passion of what it is like to live a vision greater than oneself, they will not settle for a complacent, conforming, materialistic, opportunistic, stress-filled, self-centered life.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Tuesday 01/14/2003
Miracles occur when we trust God and bring forth the gifts of our own being, when inspiration becomes action and guidance becomes witness.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Wednesday 01/15/2003
Cutting off a particular train of thought is like cauterizing a vein--the energy must then seek another path. As dissipating thoughts are continuously cauterized through conscious discrimination, the energy of Self-realization grows. It is possible to have one's thoughts immersed in God but only through the self-discipline of cauterization.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Thursday 01/16/2003
Humility is the absolute willingness and commitment to be fully who we are.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Friday 01/17/2003
It is not only the worldly ego--the aspect of self that has no interest in spiritual matters--that is the enemy of the soul but the pseudo-spiritualized ego, the ego that pretends to do spiritual work but on its own time frame, according to its own idea and agenda, and without surrender.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Saturday 01/18/2003
In our work for God we step into the stream of grace. With attachment to the results of our actions we step out of it, removing ourselves form the flow of guidance and inspiration continually available to the surrendered heart.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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Sunday 01/19/2003
To pray wholeheartedly one must pray without attachment to outcome. Be completely willing to follow divine will. Refrain from wandering into forgetfulness and attachment to outcomes.
Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
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