The GOOD News:For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him. THAT'S IT IN A NUTSHELL.
"‘Love the Lordyour God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment.And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
It happens, doesn't it? 'Real-life' shades and shadows all kinds of stuff. Truly! Ah, but there is a light. Where? There! Reflected. Which one? This one! Harmony. This one too! (See Original Intention.)
Evidently, the transformational mindset one develops by living in a story that begins with original sin is drastically different from the transformational mindset one develops living in a story that begins with original glory! But how would one know this?
Miss your OPENING chapter - ignore your authentic beginning - and you are hell bent (or spellbound) on a very different journey! Truly, one's beginning is worth every bit of a BE STILL AND KNOW verified. Truly-truly. Our story began at original glory. Confirmed. What about yours?
Along either trail perhaps one may come to know that in all of someone else's thinking and doing they are not always wrong; perhaps one may come to realize as well that with all our thoughts and actions we are not near always right.
It may well be that rejuvenated by such a knowing one begins to appreciate the value of empathy, the essentiality of compassion, and the power of forgiveness. Perhaps in the presence of such a light, awed, one might be stilled.
God-the-Creator's demonstrated continual interest is the wellbeing of all of us. Revived, rebuilt, reset, we accede to the call of a new creation. Be strong and courageous.
Done right by God. Doing right by each other. Energized by Unflinching Grace.
"I have loved you with an everlasting love."
Learnings from the everydayness of authentic life-choices (over-busy, distracted, pre-occupied) . . .
isn't it in the tapestry of the good life to be present in each moment?
The Walk
Nicolette Sowder
"Give me the wild children with their bare feet and sparkling eyes. The restless, churning climbers. The wild ones using their outside voices, singing all the way home. Give me the wonder-filled, glorious mess makers dreaming of mountains and mud, aching to run through a field of stars."
FAVORITE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
a Beauty of Being
(gratitude outpoured)
"Christ-likeness is a lightness of being, a conduit of justice and peace."
"Live without pretending. Love without depending. Listen without defending. Speak without offending."
DEALING WISELY with RELIGIOUS NARCISSISM (upcoming series)
Isaiah, the Prophet
"Rise up, shine, because your light has come. The glory of Yahweh has risen upon you. Look, darkness has covered the land. Deep darkness covers the people. But Yahweh will rise upon you. His glory will appear over you, and nations will come to your light."
Bishop Gene Robinson
"It's funny isn't it? That you can preach a judgmental and vengeful and angry God and nobody will mind. But you start preaching a God that is too accepting, too loving, too forgiving, too merciful, too kind . . . and you are in trouble."
Desmond Tutu
"You may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.."
Salt of The Soil
SAND is not SALT
Be who YOU are! If you don't like what you are, TRANSFORM
Do what it takes! If you don't like where you're headed, TURN
The BEST you is you. Be you! Don't lose your salt.
Dear God, grant me victory today over all that assails. Help me square up to even the greatest challenges and claim authority over them, unafraid. Amen.
"Learn to find joy in the story you are actually living." Rachel Marie Martin
"It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something."
The COMPASS: So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. THAT'S IT in THE HEART
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