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Given…Free Will
Given…Free Will
By J. Lillie
Divine Interruptions, repetitions
Seasons
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
Life
Death
All gather at the wedding or casket.
Always the same, crazy drunk dancers
Shy
Wall
Flowers,
Baked
Stuffed
Chicken
And
Green bean
Almondine.
We can’t escape the circle.
I can’t say, “I won’t walk the circumference of the dance floor”
Neither can you. But still we say it.
I
Will not
Be
Moved. I
Will
Break the
Cycle.
We end up on the other side anyway,
Having never moved at all, or run at it
Like some desperate groom chasing his bride.
Some old man chasing oxygen from plastic tubes.
Calendar
Script
Schedule
Liturgy
Agenda
Cycle
Circle of Life
Guided Tour
Itinerary
Every vacation, work week, church service,
math problem, sentence, curriculum, culture,
biology, clock, world, solar system,
galaxy, universe, cell, family dinner,
baseball game, track meet, sermon, and campaign
Has its order
Prelude
Introit
Welcome
Invocation, Gospel, Law, communion, committal, after party
Drawing us to our ends. We are all stuck
In the Divine equation, wedding, funeral
We are all stuck with our free will.
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Quotes About Trusting God Pt. 6
Faith isn’t the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It’s simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.
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Quotes on trusting God Pt. 5
“If your face is always turned to God – the Light of lights – the shadows and darkness will be behind you!”
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Quotes On trusting God 4
“Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.”
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Quotes On Trusting God 3
“The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost heart. This cross He now sends you He has considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with loving arms and weighed with His own hands to see that it be not one inch too large and not one ounce too heavy for you. He has blessed it with His holy Name, anointed it with His consolation, taken one last glance at you and your courage, and then sent it to you from heaven, a special greeting from God to you, an alms of the all-merciful love of God.”
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Quotes on trusting God 2
“Christians sometimes make themselves into elephants afraid of mice. You have the Creator of the universe on your side; not to mention, you’ve been given eternal life. ‘Whom or what shall you fear?’ To be afraid of anything other than God himself is like an insult to God.”
― Healology
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Quotes On Trusting God 1
“Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God’s word, and trust the process.”
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Quotes About Rest 6-5-19
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock
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The Important Noise Called Silence Pt.5
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”
― The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
