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Throughout the world, we find traces of an insatiable thirst to bow down spiritually before the Mystery that surrounds life. We see it in a Buddhist temple and in a mosque; in a Passover celebration and a Hindu Diwali festival. A mysterious sense of the Absolute, the transcendent, urges us to reach out beyond all that is around us, excavate deep within us and, above all, make some form of declaration with the whole of our being that we want to be in harmony with God, with others, within ourselves. Christians believe the Mystery has not remained nameless but has opened up to us in history and, above all, in the person of Jesus Christ. We see the face of God in Jesus, in whom we live and move and have our being. He is the Way who wants to be the Wayfarer among us. Brendan Leahy offers reflections rooted in the Focolare's communitarian spirituality which stresses undertaking the Christian journey together and the mutual sharing of what happens when we try to put the words of the Gospel into daily practice. He also draws on insights of saints and spiritual writers from a variety of historical and cultural settings.These 'simple' reflections mirror discoveries that Leahy feels he needs to constantly re-discover in order to be most effective in building up the presence of Jesus among "two or more" who are going to God together.
Contents
Introduction ...7 1. Putting God in the First Place ...9 What Do You Desire? ...11 The Crib's Invitation ...13 Fighting with Perseverance ...15 Entering into God ...16 Three Supports for True Love ... 17 2. Cast Everything onto the Father ... 19 Waking Up to the Secret ...21 Rediscovering the Father ...23 Be a Father ...24 Saying "Thanks" with our Memory ...25 Doing Our Calculations in God ...27 3. The Unique Plan for Each of Us ...28 "Yes" as Today's Guiding Word ...31 Celebrate ...32 A Criterion to Help ...33 Gaeta, Christmas 1988 ...34 Strange - But It All Fits In ...36 4. At the End only Love Remains ...37 The Art of Loving ...40 Love "Hurts" and Justice "Costs" ...41 What Have I Lived Today? ...43 Three Ways to Protest ...45 The Present Moment - the Refining Tool of Love ...46 5. Keep Going Ahead...48 Always Begin Again ...51 Rectifying Intention ...52 St. Benedict's Wise Counsel ...53 No to Murmuring ...54 Saying Goodbye ...55 6. We Go to God Together ...56 Supernaturalize ...59 A Christian Is - ...60 'We Must Remain United' - A Refrain from Burundi - - - .61 A Mexican Parable: "The Other is Another Me" ...62 Visiting Dachau ...63 7. The Adventure of the Word ...65 If You Say So - On Your Word ...67 The Synagogue Museum in Buenos Aires ...68 Be Happy ...70 The Pelican Principle ...71 Living the Word Together ...72 8. The Why That Answers All Our Questions ...73 The Lightning Rod ...77 Two Faces - Three Days ...79 You Are There Playing Hide and Seek ...80 Is Everything Lovable? ...82 Learning from the Eucharist ...83 9. Where Two or Three ... ...85 The Risen Christ ...88 Preparing for Paradise ...89 Descartes' Act of Thanksgiving ...90 Unity in Truth ...91 Our Gift of Thanks to Nature ...94 10. Taking Mary into our Home ...96 She Searched for John, the One Recommended ...98 To Lose ...99 Espouse Wisdom ...100 Mary and the Spirit ...101 Mary Remembers ...102 11. Holy Spirit, Friend of the Soul ...103 A Birthday Resolve ...105 Ready to Change ...106 Reparation ...107 Actual Grace ...109 We Give What Is Ours and We Receive What Is His ...111 Come, Holy Spirit ...114 Notes ...116NER(01): WOW
