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I pray today…
I pray today for a peaceful heart for a welcoming spirit and unending love… I pray today to be all You have made me to be to give selflessly to praise constantly… I pray today that through me others will see You my voice will sound of Your comfort my smile will offer Your welcome……
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Don’t Be Afraid
When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It is a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” Matthew 14:26-27 (NIV) I remember a Sunday school teacher once telling my class about Jesus. She thought her…
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Change of Heart
When I was in college, one of my favorite classes was Creative Writing. During that class, we did a lot of work with the poetry form of Haiku. We changed up the syllables in each line and worked with each other to improve wording and choice of imagery. A lot of people would have been…
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Pride
“If pride made a devil out of an archangel, what will it do to us?” – pg. 245, The Prayer That Changes Everything, by Stormie Omartian The definition of pride, as it appears on http://www.dictionary.com, is: “…a high or inordinate opinion of one’s own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind…
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The Walking Dead
It’s official – I am obsessed with the AMC show, The Walking Dead. After seven seasons on the air, I have finally succumbed to the hype and started watching it on Netflix. In less than two weeks, I am already finished with the first three seasons. There is a tiny little part of me that…
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What’s Next?
“Our fears are rooted in our inability to predict our future.” – Evan McLaughlin Psychic readings on the boardwalk of the Jersey Shore. Tarot cards and the Ouija board. Professor Marvel’s crystal ball. Why are these things so popular? An easy answer: “Our fears are rooted in our inability to predict our future.” We all…
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Watch and Pray…Every Day
“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Matthew 26:41 (NIV) I am human. It is through my humanness that I relate to others and live the life meant for me here on earth. And, it is through my humanness that I stumble…
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I pray today…
Dear God: I pray today that You will lift my restlessness, my irritability, my discontent. For reasons of which I am unaware, these things have disturbed my soul for the last twenty-four hours. They poke at my serenity and cause my tongue to speak words of harshness. They dig into the scars on my heart…
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The Measure of Love
“We’re rewarded not according to our work, but according to the measure of our love.” – Catherine of Siena For a very long time, one of my biggest regrets in life was that my addiction to food and alcohol kept me from becoming an all-star field hockey player in college. I received some honors while…
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Take It to Him and Rest
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 (NIV) I can’t count how many times I have thought or said something like, “I’m so tired of dealing with this.” “This” being any number of things spanning from my dysfunctional upbringing to an unruly boss at…
Jessica L. Morris
The seeking is everything…
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