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I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.—Revelations 3: ...

Pray without ceasing –1 Thessalonians 5:17 What do we think about when we’re not thinking about anything special?  Do we ever simply stop the work we are doing during the day, look straight ahead, and pray?         — Joan Chittister ...

The most fundamental thing anyone can do is to bring a man into the presence of God and leave him there —Thomas Kelly, The Eternal Presence As I try to live faithfully and find myself moving further off the grid, ...

Prayer is an alternative to working hard to get what you want.  One discovers eventually that what you want is almost always what you don’t need. —Meditations  by Thomas Merton What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come ...

The Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words –Romans 8:26 If we are to live in faithfulness to ...

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. —Romans 12:12 Many of us who spend time on this site feel called to live off the grid, literally and metaphorically: to detach ourselves from some of the comforts and ...

The most radical thing we can do with our kids is to simply stop and do nothing from time to time — Betsy Taylor, What Kids Really Want That Money Can’t Buy The soul has no room it which to ...

Let us form in the heart of the child and the youth the lofty ideal of loving, of preparing oneself to serve and to give oneself to others. Anything else would be an education for selfishness, and we want to ...

Children need contact with the natural world. It’s an antidote to advertising and gives a different perspective on the universe—Mary Pipher, The Shelter Of Each Other One of the greatest gifts we can offer to children is time spent in ...

The most valuable form of activism in this day and age may be to explore a lifestyle based around simple living and simple joy. . . It is activism to explain to our kids the hype and deceit involved with ...