I don’t own brass knuckles, but I’m pretty sure this is the next best thing.
I would rather focus on why I should love a person instead of hate them
I am asking God to give me the grace to become a woman who focuses on others’ virtues instead of their faults, especially when encountering extremely difficult people, because every human being is made in the image and likeness of God, and every person is loved by God. And if I can love the most difficult of people, then according to St. Augustine, I am purifying my eye for seeing God.
You were made to shine like a diamond, and have the power to impact every room you walk into (one way or the other).
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Opening Prayer:
“O Trinity, Essence above all essence, and Deity above all deity, supremely best guardian of the divine wisdom of Christians, direct us to the supremely unknown, superluminous, and most sublime height of mystical knowledge. There new mysteries – absolute and changeless mysteries of theology – are shrouded in the superluminous darkness of a silence, teaching secretly in the utmost obscurity that is manifest above all manifestation; of a darkness that is resplendent above all splendor, and in which everything shines forth; of a darkness which fills invisible intellects full above all plenitude with the splendors of invisible good things that are above all good.”[1]
Through Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, forever and ever.
Amen.
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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep, loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
