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Rising from the Ashes: Finding Hope and Renewal in the Depths of Prayer

We can rise like a phoenix in God's time.

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Beth Bradford
Nov 12, 2023
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“His Majesty, moved by how much it has suffered for so long because it wants Him, seems to increase the spark in the spirit until it completely ignites the soul, which rises from the flames with new life like a phoenix.” St. Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle

I love the imagery St. Teresa uses here of a phoenix. When we seem so dead in our lives, when noth…

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