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New Year’s Prayer…

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A New Year’s Prayer
May God make your year a happy one! Not by shielding you from all sorrows and pain, But by strengthening you to bear it, as it comes; Not by making your path easy, But by making you sturdy to travel any path; Not by taking hardships from you, But by taking fear from your heart; Not by granting you unbroken sunshine, But by keeping your face bright, even in the shadows; Not by making your life always pleasant, But by showing you when people and their causes need you most, and by making you anxious to be there to help. God’s love, peace, hope and joy to you for the year ahead.
Anonymous

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in His great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” 1 Peter 1:3

Happy New Year!

A Day Well Spent…

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If you planted hope today in any hopeless heart…

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If someone’s burden was lighter because you did your part…

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If you caused a laugh that chased some tears away…

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If tonight your name is named when someone kneels to pray…

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Then your day has been well spent!

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Blessings on your weekend,

Fromtheheartofj

A Trip To The Manger…

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Let us in these days before Christmas take a trip in prayer to the empty manger…

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Let us kneel down in the prickly straw, feel the cold drafty air up on us…

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and smell the somewhat stink of the animals’ living space.

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 Let us see within our hearts those places most in need of Our Savior.

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Within this posture of receiving let us wait in joyful expectancy and holy longing for the coming of the Messiah more deeply into our hearts.

So that in the holy hush of Christmas with hopeful hearts of “YES”…

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we may walk forward to receive and be transformed, believe and be set free, adore and soar to the heavenly heights…

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Receive, Believe, and Adore.

A Song in the Heart….

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Sundays are for singing…

What is the song in your heart?

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We all have one…sometimes buried underneath the busy-ness of our everyday lives.

It’s a tune that no one else can sing but us.

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Dare to ask, what is the song in my heart, Lord?

Teach me the tune, Holy Spirit…

so that I may join my voice with the choirs of heavenly angels whose song echoes into the hustle and bustle of our busy lives.

If we but slow down…and listen…

we will learn our part of the love song that a myriad of souls are already singing here and above.

This tune of love.

Discover it within…walk in it…find peace in its melody.

“Let everything that has breath give praise to the Lord. Hallelujah!” Ps150:6

 

An Instrument….

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Lord make me an INSTRUMENT of your PEACE…

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Where there is hatred, let me sow love…

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Where there is injury, pardon…

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Where there is doubt, faith…

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Where there is despair, hope…

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Where there is darkness, light…

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Where there is sadness, joy…

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O Divine Master,

Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console…

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To be understood as to understand…

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To be loved as to love…

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For it is in giving that we receive…

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned…

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And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

“Lord truly make us your INSTRUMENTS of PEACE.”

For the Greater Glory of God….

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For the Greater Glory of God…

May your weekend be.

For the Greater Glory of God…

May your eyes see…

With a “Glass Half Full” attitude…

A weekend full of “Happy Hours”…

Deep Breathing -ins and Heart -to-Hearts…

Prayers and Peace and Joys and Smiles…

All for the Greater Glory of God…

May your weekend be!

Bountiful Blessings!

“But I believe I shall enjoy the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living.”  Ps 27:13

Wrapped….

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The after effect of resting in the the Mystery of the Molding?…

Coming into the vastness of the Love of God.

The finite…enters the infinite….

boundaries melt away.

Heart expands beyond the fleshly vessel.

Even the prayers of praise and thanksgiving are but tiny whispers

within the largeness of this extravagant Love.

For words cannot contain, express, or verbalize…

this Unconditional Love.

Like a soft wrap enveloping inside and out…

Enfolded in God’s Glory!

“That the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in Him, in accord with the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Thes 1:14

Breathing In…Breathing out…

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Have you ever breathed in the morning?

Deeply inhaled the fullness, the freshness, the beauty of the new day….

Held it within as it expanded your lungs…

and ever so slowly exhaled all the possibilities and hopes out before you?

Have you ever  breathed in the noontime?

Paused and deeply inhaled the bustle of mid day…

Held it within as the busy-ness of it all met with the peace within…

and then exhaled this inner calmness into the world around you?

Have you ever breathed in the evening?

Deeply inhaled all the day contained within the confines of your chest…

and then slowly exhaled, surrendering all into the vastness of the night?

God’s first language is silence.

It is here we find peace.

May this weekend be filled with deep breathing in….and long, letting go breathing outs.

May the breathing in…and the breathing out….become a prayer without ceasing.

A prayer THROUGH HIM, WITH HIM, IN HIM.

“Pray without ceasing.  In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.”

1 Thes 5:17-18

Head, Heart, Hands, Feet…

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May your HEAD know the truth of His Love…

May your HEART beat with the vibrancy of His Love…

May your HANDS reach out in compassion with His Love…

May your FEET carry His Love into the love sick world.

Through Him, With Him, In Him….

LIVE + JESUS

“Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.  Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love…No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us. ” 1 John 4:7-8, 12

Puzzle Pieces….

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When the pieces of life seem scattered and a mess…

Faith is the glue that puts it all  together.

When the picture of God’s plan seems unrecognizable…

Faith is the glue that puts it all together.

On mountains, through valleys, in darkness, in light…

Faith is the glue that puts it all together.

Stick to Him. The masterpiece will soon be revealed.

“For I know well the plans I have in mind for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare, not for woe! Plans to give you a future full of hope. When you call me, when you go to pray to me, I will listen to you.  When you look for me, you will find me,  Yes, when you seek me with all your heart.” Jer 29: 11-13

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(This is a video I recently saw…had to share…pretty amazing isn’t it?)