Community is putting up with and taking care of with kindness and patience. “Patience bears calamities with constancy and calmness and submits to the will of God.”[1] Love is kind, Love is grateful, Love is pleasant. [2] The marginalized endure abandonment and heartlessness. Their forbearance and unassuming meekness changes hearts and lives. Love is alwaysContinue reading “Putting Up With”
Monthly Archives: July 2023
Yield “Squared”
Yield to yield… Grant to bear – Bear to grant Submitting is to surrender with resignation and deference Yield to yield… Give to grow – Grow to give Cultivating is to nurture with detachment and indifference Yield to yield… Love to live – Live to love Harvesting is to provide with fruition and blossoming
Meek and Humble
“Treat Jesus as a real person… Put heart into our prayers, and have a personal feeling…”[1] Being with Jesus is not hard, He is our kind and gentle brother. Just be meek and humble in prayer. The meek and humble call upon God with heart-felt holiness: repentant, enlightened, and sanctified. “Proud people are curious, envious,Continue reading “Meek and Humble”
Listen to Listen
Upon awakening, I place myself in God’s presence, humbling myself with silence. I am not alone I realize God’s image and likeness surrounds me and abides in me. “If we listen; we shall be changed… led to higher things, away from trifling matters.”[1] What God says is for me alone. If I listen to theContinue reading “Listen to Listen”
Beauty Has Been Restored*
there are always possibilities and I feel so overwhelmed I get stuck on what I want rather than go the way opens prayers are answered despite questions I must listen attentively accept the signs with awareness and embrace the consequence some choices bring desolation some resultContinue reading “Beauty Has Been Restored*”
Rings of Time
Like a tree my soul’s girth increases each year. The seasons of life affect with effect as I grow without fear. The rings are not spiral steps rather a labyrinth path. As age my core rings… seasons expand me with freshness. So, too, there are knots… the harshness leaves me breadth-less. The rings are myContinue reading “Rings of Time”
S. E. R.
The past five years have been momentous… moment to moment stupendous. I am an old man with a lot done… With more to do to lengthen the run, I enjoyed the bitter cold and the warm sun. After fifty years of work, there’s a lot to tell… I took and gave direction well; To beContinue reading “S. E. R.”
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