Author: Tom Denham

An epiphany is a sudden realization of great truth

An epiphany is a sudden realization of great truth. I had one at breakfast on February 15, 2014. I recorded the epiphany in my journal immediately afterwards: “God loves me because this morning I drank a perfect glass of orange...

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The Lord Appears to Samuel

I am working my way through scripture passages recommended in Hearts on Fire: Praying with Jesuits by Michael Harter, SJ for those participating in the first week of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola. The Lord Appears...

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Jesus’ Teaching on Prayer

My prayer life and sense of God’s presence was strong during a silent retreat at the Ignatius House Jesuit Retreat Center in Atlanta, Georgia from 13 February through 16 February 2014. Then I came home and kept very little...

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How a little boy finally learned to give

One day when I was 6 or 7 years old, I found my mother taking a painting down from the wall of our house and preparing to wrap it in Christmas paper. We had three paintings in the house and that particular painting was my...

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How to be a Good Samaritan in 2013

The Good Samaritan was the hero of a story Jesus told to answer the question, “Who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:25-37). The Samaritan found a man who had been beaten and robbed, lying half-dead beside the road. He provided first...

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