Andy Hoffman

This week’s featured book: Living with Purpose in a Worn-Out Body by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection Lord, it is easy to get lost in the monotony. Save me from the emptiness that comes with too Much time to think and too little to do. It is Fertile soil for negative thoughts to grow. —Missy

This week’s featured book: Living with Purpose in a Worn-Out Body by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection O God, keep me from chronically feeling sorry for myself. I don’t want to drain another’s deep well of compassion. Help me to accept my afflictions, knowing a better day is coming. Turn my self-pity into a small

This week’s featured book: Living with Purpose in a Worn-Out Body by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection I have discovered that a power chair is much like life. . . . I have discovered that without a charged battery, The chair has no power. O that I might plug my weary soul into the power

This week’s featured book: Writings of Teresa of Avila by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection When the soul is, in this prayer, truly dead to the world, a little white butterfly comes forth. Oh, greatness of God! How transformed the soul is when it comes out of this prayer after having been placed within

This week’s featured book: Writings of Teresa of Avila by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection We know we have souls. But seldom consider the precious things that can be found in this soul, or who dwells within it, or its high value. Consequently, little effort is made to preserve its beauty. —Teresa of Avila,

This week’s featured book: Writings of Teresa of Avila by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection The soul isn’t in possession of its senses, but it rejoices without understanding what it is rejoicing in. It understands that it is enjoying good in which are gathered together all goods, but this good is incomprehensible. —Teresa of

This week’s featured book: Writings of Teresa of Avila by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection One utters many words here in the praise of God without thinking them up, unless it is the Lord who thinks them up; at least the intellect is worth nothing here. —Teresa of Avila, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The

This week’s featured book: Writings of Teresa of Avila by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection The water is closer because grace is more clearly manifest to the soul. In this prayer the faculties are gathered within so as to enjoy that satisfaction with greater delight. —Teresa of Avila, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper

This week’s featured book: Writings of Teresa of Avila by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection [Beginners in prayer] are those who draw water from the well. This involves a lot of work on their own part, as I have said. They must tire themselves in trying to recollect their senses. Since they are accustomed

This week’s featured book: Writings of Teresa of Avila by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection [God] is starting to cultivate a garden on very barren soil, full of abominable weeds. His majesty pulls up the weeds and plants good seed. . . . All of this is already done by the time a soul