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Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?" (Judges 5:28).
why tarry the wheels of his chariots?" This language of Sisera's mother—hopeful yet half-despairing—echoes through multitudes in the stern fight of existence and the moral campaign of consecrated life.
why tarry the wheels of his chariots?" This cry of Sisera's mother—hoping yet half-despairing—echoes through the hearts of multitudes in the stern fight of existence and the moral campaign of consecrated life.
Exell's nineteenth-century homilists grasped a truth worth recovering: God's promises operate on His timeline, not ours.
Their waiting hours—like languid summer days when aspen leaves refuse to quiver and shadows barely move on the dial—mirrored the anguish of deferred hope.
Within this exercise, humility and hope unite with patience and perseverance, producing an agreeable serenity of mind that opposes turbulence of spirit and uneasy emotions.
For eight years, from 1856 to 1863, an Augustinian friar named Gregor Johann Mendel knelt in the experimental garden of St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno,...
For eight patient years, Gregor Mendel knelt in the monastery garden at St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno, Moravia, cross-pollinating pea plants by hand. Between 1856...
Observers at Abeih noted that as evening air cooled, locusts literally "camped in the hedges and loose stone walls, covering them over like a swarm of bees settled on a bush." They remained stationary until the sun warmed the next...
For eight years, from 1856 to 1863, Gregor Mendel knelt in the garden of St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno, Moravia, cross-pollinating nearly twenty-eight thousand pea...