Author: Jessica L. Morris
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The Darkness All Around
Until the seed recognizes the darkness all around for what it truly is – fertile soil offering space for growth – it will dwell fearfully within itself, stuck in the muck unable to penetrate its coat of armor. But when it receives its need for the life-giving truth found only in its opening to the…
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Prayer for All I Will Ever Need
Dear God:Bless me with the courage to turn my face toward You today. I believe that when I look into Your eyes, I will know everything I will ever need to know.Amen.
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Lament of My Soul
There is nothing without You, Lordmy heart, broken in a million piecesmy mind, a cavernous echomy soul, an empty wasteland there, I crawl and thirst and hunger wandering aimlessly in the dark of night and the blaring heat of the dayno restno peaceno purpose other than my own which leaves me still more broken more…
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You Already Know the Answer*
When the tiny little enormously complicated three-letter word swims through your mind and plummets desperately and wantinglyinto your heart until it can no longer be muffled emerging boldly against all the knowledge and understanding you have ever grasped about your relationship with God – WHY?– allow it to breathe for a momentsuspended in mid-airtimeand space…
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The Only Answer*
Rarely do I ask the way I once did – why, oh why, oh why, my Lord?The desire to know subtly removed from me, in waves of ebb and flow and flow and ebb and crash and land upside down and inside out sand in pants and stinging eyes my heart on fire my soul’s…
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A Prayer for One Year After My Baptism
Dear God: Oh, how I am still so much like Simon Peter – the one who insisted on his way, the one who barreled through things without thinking, the one who denied You – and also the one who carried Your message with others, disagreeable and judgmental at times, and also, compassionate and so much…
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Isn’t There a Pill for That?
“Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power.” – Alcoholics Anonymous, p.43 For more than ninety years, people of all races,…
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Very Good*
When I gaze at a majestic waterfall taking in the peaceful blanket of mist and soothing aroma of its foliage frame, do I think also of God’s amazing image in my fellow man? When my mind and heart are calmed of incessant fretting by the innocent and faithful song of the morning birds, do I…
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How Great Thou Art in Me
The pestilence the pain the oppression the wrath – I alone, deserve it all but in Your name, none at all! How GREAT a fact it is Your life, Divine, now lives in me.
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Psalm of My Heart
You have guided me here, God to this day… Your amazing grace and mercy have sustained me all along the way – with patience in the waiting and faith in barren days. Your wisdom and truth have set me free – with willingness to search my depths and honest eyes to finally see.Oh, how I…