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Spiritual Beings Having Human Experience

January 12, 2012

By Ileana A. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” When I heard this quote, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, this morning during chapel, I was quite struck with the idea that I am not a human being. Oddly, there was also a sense of [...]

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Waiting for Christmas

November 30, 2011

By Ileana A. With the start of the season of Advent, Christmas is in the air here at The Family Foundation School. The families have been decorated and there is talk about the upcoming shopping trip. This week’s nondenominational chapel service focused on just that. According to statistics, America spends an average of $450 billion [...]

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Hard Work

September 21, 2011

By Ileana A. This week’s chapel message comes from Matthew 20: 1-16. “For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.” The householder and the laborers agreed to the wage of one denarius for a day’s work. The householder continued to go [...]

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Spiritual Experience

September 15, 2011

By Ileana A. This week I had a real spiritual experience. Tuesday evening I was reading from the Book of Job 38:1-42:6. While I was reading it, I realized that I was reading perfect third step material: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we [...]

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A Wise Old Man

July 28, 2011

By Ileana A. During this week’s Wednesday morning chapel, we students heard a story about an old woodcutter: There was a poor old woodcutter who only had one son and a beautiful white horse. All the people in his village wanted his horse but he told them that the horse was his friend. How could [...]

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Forgiveness of Self

July 22, 2011

By Ileana A. Recently I have been struggling with the concept of forgiveness. Especially forgiveness toward my past actions and myself. During chapel this week, several of the services spoke about Jacob and his dream of angels ascending and descending a ladder. After the dream, Jacob set a pillar of rocks where he slept and [...]

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Closing the Curtain

July 16, 2011

By Ileana A. “If the invitations open to every heart that has been broken, maybe then we’ll close the curtain on our stained glass masquerade.” These are the lyrics to one of the school’s popular Wednesday chapel songs sung by Casting Crowns. Hearing it this week, it was a reminder to all of us that [...]

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Seeing They Do Not See

July 7, 2011

By Ileana A. When I hear the Parable of the Sower I usually do not pay much attention to it. It’s a classic parable told often and, I bet, just as often disregarded. Listening to Father Chris read it however, I caught the words “This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing [...]

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