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His Eyes Meet Yours…
Jesus looks down from the cross…
Scans the crowd…
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His body racked with pain and drenched with blood.
His eyes meet yours…
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What does His gaze say to YOU?
Die with Christ…so that you may LIVE with HIM.
(We know the end of this story don’t we, and we rejoice in the knowing!)
“Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, while we thought of him as stricken, as one smitten by God and afflicted, but he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins, upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed.” Is 53:4-5
Peace Be With You…May I Wash Your Feet?…
“When the Lord of the world comes and undertakes the slave’s task of foot-washing…
which is an illustration of the way He washes our feet all through our lives…
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We have a totally different picture.
God does not want to trample on us, but kneels down before us so as to exult us.
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The mystery of the greatness of God is seen precisely in the fact that He can be so small…
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Only when power is changed from the inside, and we accept Jesus and his way of life, whose self is there in there in the action of the foot-washing,
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Only then can the world be healed and the people be able to live at peace with one another.” (Pope Benedict XVI)
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“If I therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.” John 13:14-15
Questions…
It’s not that God doesn’t answer our questions..
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It’s more..
Do we have the COURAGE to ask the questions that need to be asked?…
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And the HUMILITY to accept the answers?
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“Probe me, God, know my heart; try me, know my concerns. See if my way is crooked then lead me in the ancient paths.” Ps 139:23-24
Gratitude…
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it”…
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Saying thank you is so important ..and I never think it is too late…
so thank you to those who have nominated me for awards recently.
You have blessed me and brought a smile to my face and a skip to my step!
Ya’ll take a minute and visit these wonderful bloggers and you will be blessed.
Thank you..
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This bouquet is for you…actually made by me…
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Silly for Saturday #6…
Isn’t a baby’s laugh contagious? There is something infectious about it. The video below is especially precious. Baby Micah laughs hysterically as his “stay at home dad” rips up a job rejection letter. Celebrate with this laughter!
“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”
May your weekend be filled with much laughter and “new possibilities”
Geo-What?…
“Geo WHAAAAAT?,” said the Krispy Kreme Doughnut worker at the drive thru…
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“You know…Geo Caching…will you give us a hint as to where it is?”my husband calmly said.
Whatever are you talking about fromtheheartofj?
GEO-CACHING.
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It’s a real world outdoor treasure hunting game. First players get coordinates for hidden treasures via the official website www.geocaching.com Then they try to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, using GPS enabled devices or their smart phones. After they find one they sign a logbook, see what others have left behind and if they want, share their experiences online. There are over 1 1/2 million geocaches hidden world wide and over 5 million geocachers around the globe. Almost 4000 hidden in my zip code alone and I don’t live in any booming metropolis.
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Well, I wasn’t about to crawl in the big green dumpster just to find a geocache so we didn’t find that one, but did find one hidden at Texas Roadhouse Steakhouse so the trip wasn’t a total waste. Honestly, it takes awhile for us to hear of things in Alabama, but this weird and wacky hobby will keep you laughing as it did the carload of folks I was with. It’s great fun for kids, teenagers, young adutls, middle agers, and grannies and grandpas. You just have to be young at heart!
So….what does geo-caching have to do with a devotional blog about the journey of the heart?
Well…We were created to be “seekers”. We were made to seek God…to grope for Him even though He is not far away.
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Are you in touch with that seeking part of your heart? For it is a part of who you are.
I find that the desire to seek spills over into all parts of my life. To nurture that seeking in the many varied ways it presents itself is to nurture that part of our heart that is creative.
So yes, seek God and you will find Him. He stands knocking at the door.
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And if you have nice weather this weekend…get out and do some geocaching…it’s weird, and wacky but best of all it’s free.
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“He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and He fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions, so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for Him and find Him, even though indeed He is not far from any one of us.” Acts 17:26-27
Silly for Saturday….
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This is like the old Mousetrap Game….brought back memories AND made me smile! Thanks for sharing….I’ve reblogged this on my site. Blessings!
Will You Be My Valentine?…
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Will you be my Valentine? Will you be my friend?….which is to say…
Will you let me give you my unconditional Love? Will you accept my peace for your tired and worn self?
Will you receive my mercy and forgiveness? Will you believe in my Love when everyone else has gone away or given up on you?
Will you be generous enough to take my love to others when they need you?
Will you be bread to the hungry, love to my needy, hope to my desolate?
Will you trust me to always companion you? Will you lay down your life for me?
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Will you be my Valentine? Will you be my friend?
I listen to the invitation…I look within and find “yes” answers in my own February heart.
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“Yes” because of dear friends who have graced my days with love.
Their hearts are plainly flesh and earthen, yet they touch me to Your goodness.
Their hearts are weak and wounded, yet they mend the torn in me.
Their hearts are tired and troubled, yet they’ve time to give me rest.
My friends are loving pathways leading home.
Home to where You are. Oh Lover of all hearts.
And so, I respond humbly, gratefully,
“You know everything. You know I want to be Your Valentine.”
(Joyce Rupp)
“He said to him a third time, “Simon, son of John do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” John 21:17
Chocolate covered twinkies and strawberry fudge from the kitchen of fromtheheartofj
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Beyond the Dot to Dots…
Man between the lines…
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We are mind, body, soul and spirit…not just the sum of what is seen exteriorly.
But when sin entered the world man was fractured into parts no longer whole.
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The world continues to promote the broken man…
“Live for yorself”…”discover the fountain of youth so you can always look young”…”if it feels good do it”.
And in our relationships we often relate to others in this broken way.
But Jesus came to put all the pieces back together.
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Sparks fly when we relate to to others as the whole person they are before us.
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We are seeing them as God sees them and speaking to them in their wholeness even in their brokenness.
The transfiguration is a reality to us.
We are men and women beyond the lines….beyond the dot to dots.
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Lord may I be given the grace to see the dignity of the whole person in myself and before me. Let my eyes not remain fixed on the broken pieces but on the Glory of the Divine Image before me.”
through Him with Him in Him... 