Month: June 2020

Catholic

No Gift Too Small

Words and Music by Tom Kneier & Ray Niccolai; Arrangement by Ray Niccolai.
Tom Kneier – Vocals; Ray Niccolai – acoustic guitar
Text and Music Copyright 2020 by Tom Kneier & Ray Niccolai

Come from afar to follow a star. Men of great wisdom bearing great gifts. Drawn by a single-hearted purpose, seeking a King to worship.

Led to Bethlehem by the star. Finding the Child they fell to their knees. Laying their gifts before the Babe, they gazed on the King of Kings.

Offer to Jesus all you have. Hold nothing back from your Savior. No gift is too small to give, when it’s given freely from the heart.

What do you have that you did not receive from God’s hand? What can you give that was not given you first? We are but earthen vessels holding the treasures of God.

So offer to Jesus all you have. Hold nothing back from your Savior. No gift is too small to give, when it’s given freely from the heart. When it’s given from your heart.

Catholic

The Gift No One Wants

“Where Is God When It Hurts?”
The Gift No One Wants

One evening several years ago, my wife was having severe abdominal pains.  She wanted to wait and see if it improved overnight.  I insisted on taking her to the emergency room.  She was admitted immediately and subsequently underwent surgery to remove a section of her colon due to advanced diverticulitis.  We were both reminded that night that we ignore pain to our own peril. 

In a recent sermon referring to signs that frequent our summer highways during construction season, our pastor put it this way: “Temporary inconvenience; permanent improvement.”  If we pay attention to the signs of pain when they manifest – physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually – we can travel the road to healing and restoration.  Can pain then actually be a gift?

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