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Cracked Pot…Restored…

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Do you ever feel like a cracked pot?

Leaking from various cracks and crevices?…

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You may not even be aware of it until you find yourself exhausted mentally, physically, spiritually…

your joy long misplaced.

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In answer to our pleading prayer, the Heavenly Father adds water of grace….kneads us back to mold-able…pushing and  pulling the grace into the hardened areas…into the air pockets of our self made plans and mind, body, spirit disarray…

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remolding us…refashioning us…into our unique, one of a kind shape.

He throws us up on the pottery wheel…

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Spinning us over and over again until dizzy with the motion…

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The wheel stops and we are thrown into the kiln.  Fire baking us, setting us, strengthening us to be that vessel which once again may hold the grace given..the love poured in…in order to be poured out.

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Surrendering into the Potter’s hands we are molded into the masterpiece of who we are.

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Giving Him permission to shape us into glory.

“Yet, O Lord, you are our father; we are the clay and you the potter; we are all the work of your hands.” Is 64:7

Looking For Beauty….

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful…

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We must carry it with us or we find it not. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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“One thing I ask of the Lord, this I seek:  to dwell in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, to gaze on the Lord’s beauty, to visit his temple.” Ps 27:4

Prayer For A Tired Branch…

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“Jesus,

I am one worn out tired branch…

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And I need the newness of the vine of you to start the hope-life running through the streams of me again.

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Lord, be my vine and I’ll be your branch…

But free me please from this withered cut off feeling…

And deliver others from the pain I carve into their branches.

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Let your life-giving sap of grace flow into me constantly

That I become unable to survive without it.”

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(poem by Macrina Wiedrekehr and adapted by Tiny McPhillips)

“Remain in me, as I remain in you.  Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.  I am  the vine, you are the branches.  Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.” John 15:4-5

“Open Up…This Isn’t Gonna Hurt a Bit”….

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Just like a loose tooth that dangles from a thread of a root…

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Memories of past mistakes, failures, broken dreams and promises, a wayward life

hang on to a part of our thoughts that taunt and bully us…

“you are not good enough”, “you are a mess up”, “you are bad”

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Shame be gone!…

“For the scripture says, No one who believes in him will be put to shame.” (Rom10:11)

“You shall be called a new name pronounced by the mouth of the Lord, a royal diadem held by your God.” Is 62:2-3

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No Such Thing As A Counterfeit…

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If you aren’t a writer…be the story.

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If you aren’t an artist be the paint.

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If you aren’t a sculptor be the clay.

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If you aren’t a singer be the song.

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If you aren’t a dancer be the moves.

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If you aren’t an athlete be the fan.

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Discover “YOU”… the real version.

Because if you aren’t “YOU”…there is no such thing as a counterfeit!

“In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the one who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will, so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ.” Eph 1″ 111-12

Falling and Getting Back Up…

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Is “Wholeness” perfection?

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Or rather in this life is “wholeness” realizing we are sinners doing the best we can,

falling and getting back up as we journey through the chaos of the world?

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Always, however, embraced in His love and mercy.

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“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else,

means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight;

and never stop fighting.” (E.E. Cummings)

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“Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.  In you I seek shelter.  In the shadows of  your wings I seek shelter till harm pass by.” Ps 57:2

How Beautiful the Feet….

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“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings glad tidings, announcing peace, bearing good news, announcing salvation, and saying to Zion, “Your God is King.” is 52:7

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some hear today! (St. Francis of Assisi)

Blessings on your weekend, fromtheheartofj

Temporary Insanity?….

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When one learns the truth…hears the truth…is convicted by the truth…

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Isn’t it “temporary insanity” to believe the deceits that violate the truth?

The core of us is not death and decay…

The core of us is LIFE…God Himself present within!

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We must hold captive thoses thoughts that speak deceit …

and turn them over to Jesus…to the foot of the cross!

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“And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32

Outside In…Inside Out…

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Outside in …the world shouts in a cacaphony of voices…

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Inside out…the small still voice within steers our steps.

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Outside in…relentless forces push and pull in confusion and deceit…

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Inside out…flows forth the waters of grace that transform our senses to taste and see how good the Lord is.

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Outside in…the spirit of the world.

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Inside out…the Divine Indwelling

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How will you choose to walk this day?

“We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the things freely given us by God.” 1 Co 2:12