Focus on God

July 10
“The more we give ourselves up in the worship of God, the more our personality is deepened and enriched. The more we concentrate on ourselves and our own status, however, the more we grow poor, shallow, and dull…”
-Jutta Burggraf
Today’s Reflection:
Ponder the times you have focused on God vs. yourself? How have you seen your personality enriched or diminished?

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My soul doth magnify the Lord

July 8

“And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. Because he that is mighty, hath done great things to me; and holy is his name.

-Luke 1:46-49

 

Today’s Reflection:

Through my vocation as woman, the Lord has done great things for me and invites me to do great things in His name. Do I believe this?

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The gift of being a woman

July 7

“The gift of being a woman is the ability to give life. As Christian women we have an even greater privilege – to give supernatural life to others through a personal relationship with Christ in life.”

-Marianne Evans Mount

 

Today’s Reflection:

How seriously do I take my call to bring spiritual life to others?

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Her original vocation

July 6

“Woman’s nature is determined by her original vocation of spouse and mother. One depends on the other. The body of woman is fashioned ‘to be one flesh’ with another and to nurse new human life in itself.”

-St. Edith Stein

 

Today’s Reflection:

What are some specific ways the Lord uses my feminine call as a source of sanctification for myself? For others?

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Male and female he created them

July 5
“Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
-Genesis 1:26, 27
Today’s Reflection:
God has created the female person to share in His sovereign act of bringing new life to the world, including spiritual life. How can you nurture this aspect of your femininity?

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Woe to those who call evil good

July 4

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”

-Isaiah 5:20

 

Today’s Reflection:

Contemporary thoughts and ideas often take root in subtle ways. To what extent have my own attitudes about my woman and reproductive system been shaped by the culture of the day? How can I overcome false understandings?

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Crowned with glory and honor

July 3

“O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens…What is man that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man that thou visitest him? Thou hast made him little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor.”

-Psalm 8:2, 5-6

 

Today’s Reflection:

Woman participates in a unique way in God’s sovereign role of Creator. How does this specially “crown” the female person with God’s glory?

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Woman’s humanity

July 2

“The woman’s humanity is realized in the specific ways of a woman. She is a complete human being no less than the man, but according to her own nature. Her sex is not a mere accidental condition that could be abstracted. Her sex, on the contrary, is a reality that fundamentally defines her being and action and corresponds to the specific design of the Creator. Her physical and psychological qualities proclaim clearly what it truly means to be woman.”

-Jutta Burggraf

 

Today’s Reflection:

What does femininity mean to me?

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