http://www.greatmombook.com Reflections for Busy Moms by Chicken Soup for the Soul author Maria Rodgers O'Rourke Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:58:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The value of persistent prayer is not that God will hear us, but that we will finally hear God. William McGill http://www.greatmombook.com/pray-always-120.html Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.  Matthew 6: 8 Jesus reassures us today that our prayer with God is a quiet, personal relationship which will not be enhanced by the amount of words we use.  Rather, we're invited to sit quietly with God and trust our hearts ... http://www.greatmombook.com/god-already-knows-118.html Beloved: Tend the flock of God in your midst.  1 Peter 5:2 Mother Teresa reminds us:  "We can do no great things-only small things with great love." As mothers busy about the business of life, we sometimes wonder if what we do is "enough."  Yesterday at church my almost-10-year-old daugther took my hand and ... http://www.greatmombook.com/tend-the-flock-in-your-midst-114.html "When he finished, Woods hugged his mother and she whispered in his ear. "I said 'I'm so proud of you. Never think you stand alone. Mom will always be there for you and I love you,'" Kultida Woods said." Read the full story on Tiger Woods' apology here. http://www.greatmombook.com/a-mothers-love-111.html This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke; Sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; Clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like ... http://www.greatmombook.com/friday-of-ash-wednesday-week-isaiah-and-bono-109.html Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live. Deuteronomy 30:15, 19 This Thursday of the week of Ash Wednesday brings ... http://www.greatmombook.com/deuteronomy-and-the-dmv-107.html Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. For gracious and merciful is he...  Joel 2: 12-13 Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent, a time to remember who we are and whose ... http://www.greatmombook.com/ash-wednesday-105.html From my almost-ten-year-old daughter: "If you can't imagine something, you've detached yourself from God." http://www.greatmombook.com/the-true-source-of-creativity-103.html At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to ... http://www.greatmombook.com/at-the-center-of-our-being-93.html   "He is just that into you."  What a great turn of a popular phrase from author and mom Elisabeth Corcoran and her new book by the same title.  This title takes a comment that could be a source of self-doubt and sadness and turns it into one of hope and ... http://www.greatmombook.com/deep-calls-to-deep-90.html