“They have no wine.”

“Now here is a remarkable thing and a lesson for every believer. What is our response when we believe God is telling us “no”? What do we do when we suspect He may not give us exactly what we want? The lesson from Mary, as relayed through her instructions to the servants, was simply this: if we think God is saying “no” to us we must be sure we are still saying say “yes” to Him. If we are disappointed, it is all the more urgent to insure that He is not disappointed…Let the burden of our prayer life be a determination to do what the Lord wants.”

Ronnie C. Stevens (referring to John chapter 2)

Eternal Appetite of Infancy

“The sun rises every morning. I do not rise every morning; but the variation is due not to my activity, but to my inaction. Now, to put the matter in a popular phrase, it might be true that the sun rises regularly because he never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life. The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, ‘Do it again’; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again’ to the sun; and every evening, ‘Do it again’ to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Gift of Holiness

“…Christ gave the Holy Spirit to the Church as the divine gift, and as the

incessant and inexhaustible fount of sanctification.”

Pope John Paul II

A Good Mother

“We cannot fight credibly against other social and moral evils, including poverty and violence, while we tolerate mass killings by abortion.”
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta

He Climbed the Tree

“O all ye who pass by, behold and see;
Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree,
The tree of life to all, but only me:
Was ever grief like mine?”

The Sacrifice | George Herbert

The Way Things Are

“The human house is a paradox, for it is larger inside than out.”
G. K. Chesterton

“Recognize that fundamental anomaly of human nature, that we prize what we cannot easily get. We take for granted, we even come to despise, that which costs us no effort.”
Elisabeth Elliot