Tag: god

Saint Teresa of Avila, the 16th century Spanish mystic, saw an angel rushing towards her, carrying a torch and a bucket of water. “Where are you going with that torch and bucket,” she asked; “what will you do with them?” “With the water,” the angel answered, “I will put out …

Late one evening a poor farmer on his way back from the market found himself without his prayer book. The wheel of his cart had come off right in the middle of the woods and it distressed him that this day should pass without him having said his prayers. So …

“Tears our prayers too. They travel to God when we can’t speak.”

Build a better world , said God. And I asked how? The world is such a vast place and so complicated now. I am small and useless. What can I do? God in all His wisdom said, “Just build a better you.”