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Mid Afternoon Meditation 7-3-19
How lovely is your dwelling place,
Lord Almighty!
2 My soul yearns, even faints,
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out
for the living God.
3 Even the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may have her young—
a place near your altar,
Lord Almighty, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
they are ever praising you.
Psalm 84:1-4
What do you do to increase your longing for God and His courts?
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Tuesday Skies 6-18-19
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Magnification Mondays 6-17-19
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Share Your World 5-27-19
I am coming her to today TO SHARE MY WORLD. This is the writing challenge from Melanie at Sparkfromacombustiblemind, in which she asks several questions and in answering them, we her contributors share our worlds with all of you.
Here are this week’s questions and my answers:
Do you consider yourself a pessimist or an optimist?
Let’s put it this way. I am learning to not kill my dreams with my own negativity. What does that make me?
Can War ever be just?
Yes war can be just. That doesn’t mean war isn’t horrible or full of darkness. This is a fallen world where innocence has been lost. In such a place, justice sometimes wears the mask of our worst nightmares.
Think about the people you love most in your life, what do you do for them?
I hope I serve them well.
Are you health conscious?
I am conscious that I need to take better care of my health. I am trying that…exercising, drinking more water, watching what I eat. Trying not to give into cookie stress all of that.
Gratitude, Thankfulness, Wonder, Awe and Joy!
This is the space where you share, if you’d like to, something that falls into those categories.
I am grateful to God for visiting us in Wednesday night prayer service last night. The presence of God was glorious.
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Mid Afternoon Meditation 5-30-19
Why have you broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
13 Boars from the forest ravage it,
and insects from the fields feed on it.
14 Return to us, God Almighty!
Look down from heaven and see!
Watch over this vine,
15 the root your right hand has planted,
the son[e] you have raised up for yourself.
16 Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire;
at your rebuke your people perish.
17 Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand,
the son of man you have raised up for yourself.
18 Then we will not turn away from you;
revive us, and we will call on your name.
19 Restore us, Lord God Almighty;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved. Psalm 80:12-19
Why does God sometimes have to break down our defensive walls? Aren’t we supposed to keep our defenses up?
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Sacred Sundays 5-26-19
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Morning Direction From Scripture 5-24-19
Restore us, O God;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved.
4 How long, Lord God Almighty,
will your anger smolder
against the prayers of your people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears;
you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
6 You have made us an object of derision[b] to our neighbors,
and our enemies mock us.
Psalm 80:3-6
What does the bread of tears look like?
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Evening Meditation 5-23-19
Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,
you who lead Joseph like a flock.
You who sit enthroned between the cherubim,
shine forth 2 before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh.
Awaken your might;
come and save us. Psalm 80:1,2
What does David mean hear when he asks God to awaken His might?
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The Important Noise Called Silence 4
“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
― All Rivers Flow To The Sea
The sunset over Galway
