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Pray Without Ceasing
“…pray without ceasing.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:17When I was a child, I was taught how to pray by my parents; and honed the “craft” every night before bed with my mom at my side. My dad was a minister, so church attendance and participation were part of life, praying before meals was expected, and praying…
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A New Awareness in Only 14 Days (and 26 years)
This morning while reading a devotional, I was reminded of something a great anonymous man once said in relation to the consequences of the behaviors of people with addictions, as well as within the family of those addicts: “Let’s stop throwing blame around.” While I have always related this idea (and the “blame game”) to…
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Exile
Only when she who lives on the edges sees with the eyes of her heart will she know – she is the only reason she cannot return Home.
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Paul Was Here
A prisonerunjustly imprisoned, of course, once said: No good thing ever dies.*I couldn’t understand thenso his wisdom onlymade me cry.Now, here without you,I do understand,and I think of you,living and breathingin an eternally peaceful autumn afternoon – squirrels playing all aroundand a raven landing in the plush ocean of rusted orange overhead.You are there on…
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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…
Jessica L. Morris
The seeking is everything…
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