Minute Meditations

God's gifts

• God of love, give us hearts to include all that you are willing to include, to forgive all that you so easily forgive, and to join you in doing something truly noble on this earth
• Holiness does not depend on human merit, culture, personality, effort or achievement. It is entirely God’s creation and gift
• God leaves us free to accept or reject his love, and we make that choice every day, building on the choice we made the day before
• Wonderful Creator, you have gifted me with many talents. So often I see those talents as “mine” and use them for my own purposes. Help me recognize that you have given me these gifts for a deeper purpose
• God is with me, but more God is within me, giving me existence. Let me dwell for a moment on God’s life-giving presence in my body, my mind, my heart, and in the whole of my life
• God’s infinite goodness and mercy is found in the fall of the human race. Something made him want to save us
• We praise and adore Him for all the gifts of creation, but especially for the gift of His only Son by whom we are redeemed.
• A gift is precious particularly when it is the result of self-denial, when one deprives oneself of what is given. And God, in a particular way, deprived himself of His divine riches to be able to become one of us
• No one can be excused for not having and finding divine grace. The most bountiful God distributes his grace abundantly to all, that is, to all who wish and seek it.