Bishop Espaillat: God Can Write Straight with Crooked Lines
| 05/24/2023
By: The Good Newsroom
Bishop Espaillat continues his series on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit by reflecting on the fourth gift: Knowledge.
Sometimes when life doesn’t go as we thought it would go, he says, “God can write straight with crooked lines,” and he explains how knowledge helps us to know God’s plans for us.
Listen to his full reflection here.
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Mary Shovlain
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Archbishop Ronald Hicks
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