How has your spiritual life grown in the first month of the new year? Are you seeing change by leaps and bounds? Are you seeing more subtle changes?

Perhaps you are slowly going through a transformation. It”s perfectly fine. Sometimes it’s more important to take our time and take each step as it is presented.IMG_0099

Children learn to walk step by step. Thy don’t automatically know how to reach their destination across the room as quickly as they may want.

In our spiritual lives, sometimes it takes more time on each step than we prefer. Yet, each step up gives us a strong foundation and can help us when we feel we might be falling.

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