MEDITATION
"DEVOTION"

GOOD
NEWS

THE whole chebang IN A NUTSHELL

"‘Love the Lord your 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.”

JESUS the CHRIST

WHEN LIFE IS LIFING
- what truly matters -

EDUCATING, PROVING & INSPIRING CHAMPIONS

Each DAY has ENOUGH TROUBLE of Its OWN
What is It? purposed from the heavens That diligently NOURISHED, TRAINED, and REVEALED
THRIVING PERSPECTIVES Forgiveness of Self A Higher Service Creative Space Born This Way
BE MINDFUL of a THIN LINE between WISDOM and NAIVETY
. . . do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your life . . .

 

The BATON - in moments like these - being carried by enablers endeavored to embody love, joy, peace

 

. . . mindful of being in The Arena . . .

EXPLORE: Sermon on The Mount (the series)
EXPLORE: The Lord's Prayer (the series)

"Encourage one another. Build one another up."

A New Creation

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."

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.

BE mindful of YOUR purpose IN THE ARENA
not THE CRITIC in THE STANDS

Everlasting Life. Life-giving Love.
Eternal Joy. Personal Peace.

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.

Joshua Dubois
PRAYERS

"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."

- John Lewis

EACH DAY an OPPORTUNITY to LEARN

(beyond religiosity, beyond judgment, beyond pretense)

You DON'T want to be in the same BAD situation AGAIN.

Isn't it Good to Grow as YOU GO? Seek Wisdom.