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holy whispering to the heart
“I love the way you cry at the end of a good book, just because the story is finished and it was so good that you wanted it to go on and on. I love it that you pour yourself into the narrative so much...
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Open Letter to Sir Skeptic
Always be ready to give an answer when someone asks you about your hope. ~ From the First Epistle of St. Peter Honorable Sir Skeptic: It is, to be sure, the supreme paradox of our faith that God came...
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Step Four: We Are Accountable
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Ps. 139.23-24, NRSV) Or in an English translation of the...
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Step Six, Part One: We Are Valuable And Loved
But you are merciful to all because you can do all things; you overlook people’s sin in order to bring them to repentance; for all existing things are dear to you and you hate nothing that you have...
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Step Eight, Part I: We Are Thoughtfully Intentional
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against any one; so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. (Mark 11.25, RSV) To be a Christian means to...
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Step Eight, Part II: We Intentionally Prepare
You do well if you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (James 2.8, NRSV) Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by...
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Step Ten: We Continue to Take Responsibility
Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. (Ps. 37.4-5, NRSV) But you, beloved, are not in darkness … you are...
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Step Eleven, Part II: We Are Disciplined … Or Will Be
Then he said to them all, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who...
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The Love of God … Despite Me
Tears of heaven fall, Because I cried and held back nothing at all. Her heart is saddened, Because all of her blessings have failed to gladden. She whispers in the wind, ‘Are you disappointed, love,...
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River of Life
One River of Life, twisting and turning and every flowing, And never changing, despite the winds of change blowing;… Quickly here, slowly there, brackish some and also clear, Translucent and wholesome...
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Bathed by the Divine
In silver stream waters, refreshing, she bathed me, Grace Unbounded, While singing her hauntingly beautiful song in hypnotic melody. Ah! By trees, flowers, silk air and woodland creatures I was...
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Appendix: Coming to Grips With Divine Care in This Life in This World
Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad… Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God. And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge,...
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What Play for the Lonely Soul
He was an attractive young man, quite suave and debonair, with an handsome smile, melodic baritone laugh, and he was always sharply dressed, professionally or casually. He was intelligent – he had...
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My Life Is Not My Own
One danger in offering your testimony is getting the sense that you’ve arrived, at least at some monumental point in your life, fundamental and unalterable. This is not to say that you consciously...
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Changing World, Spring of Life
This world around me is changing and with it my spirit grows old; So cold is every winter as the earth turns, nations churn and hearts sold For sordid boon, all too soon, ere before rush of spring so...
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Finding ‘I’ and ‘Me’
How strange it seems that only in mystery Do “I” find “me,” in the history my soul left behind; In like kind do “I” show my face with mask As it is for the “me” to be true to all that we find Locked...
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First Micro-Poem: Flying Kites!
I’m so worn down I could die, But believe me, I will not try; I’ll fly a pretty kite in …Continue reading →
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And So Now I Breathe: Triple Haiku
Once was I dying, Life slowly slipping away, Sliding through the day. My tomb set in stone, Ready to swallow …Continue reading →
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Journey Home ~ Home
Too many miles, too many trials On too many blackened roads; This unsteady man’s more ready To come back home, haversack In …Continue reading →
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igNoble Civil War
At the kitchen table alone, after having a bite to eat, my emotions raging (again) … then and there is …Continue reading →
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