Patchwork Post…

Patchwork Post… End of the year shuffle…graduations…traveling guests…days at beach…sunburns and sweet ice tea…friends…heart to heart talks…good news/bad news…joys and trials…laughs and tears…summer heat and barefoot…being grateful…being humbled…to do lists…bucket lists…books that inspire…”Word”s that convict…kaleidoscope skies…sleepy saturdays…zumba and park runs…prayer and presence…dogs and lemonade…stray kittens…going fast…going slow…family…taking deep breaths…inhaling/exhaling…joy in the eyes….laughter in the voice…fresh [...]

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Today…

Today I must walk…   Today I must pray..   Today I must give my heart away.   With Jesus in me, I walk to the blind, trusting that He has seen what I’ll find. He speaks to the heart.  I speak to the mind. Together we walk as I learn to be kind. Not [...]

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Cracked Pot…Restored…

Do you ever feel like a cracked pot? Leaking from various cracks and crevices?…   You may not even be aware of it until you find yourself exhausted mentally, physically, spiritually… your joy long misplaced.   In answer to our pleading prayer, the Heavenly Father adds water of grace….kneads us back to mold-able…pushing and  pulling [...]

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Looking For Beauty….

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful…   We must carry it with us or we find it not. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) “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 [...]

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Prayer For A Tired Branch…

“Jesus, I am one worn out tired branch… And I need the newness of the vine of you to start the hope-life running through the streams of me again. 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 [...]

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

Just like a loose tooth that dangles from a thread of a root…   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” Shame be gone!… [...]

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Falling and Getting Back Up…

Is “Wholeness” perfection?   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?   Always, however, embraced in His love and mercy.   “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing [...]

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Can I hear an Amen, Alleluia?…

“Blessed the people who know the joyful shout…. In the light of your countenance, O Lord, they walk.” (Psalm 89) Can I hear an Amen, Alleluia?

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How Beautiful the Feet….

“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

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Temporary Insanity?….

When one learns the truth…hears the truth…is convicted by the truth…   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! image via wayshower.typedpad.com We must hold captive thoses thoughts that speak deceit … [...]

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