It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility. -Miguel de Molinos
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“The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.” ~ Frederick Buechner
Sometimes, for some of us, a simple prayer of appreciation to the Creator of love and beauty for his goodness to us is as great a victory over self-centeredness as is sailing across the world to set a thousand captives free.
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A Song of Overcoming
There’s just something about purple that is like the exquisite beauty of a song of overcoming sung in a minor key. Victory yes, but not without sorrow.
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You Alone
You are the Eternal, the only One. The skies are Your work alone— You made the heavens above those skies and the stars that fill them. You made the earth and everything upon it, the seas and all that lives within their depths. Your creation lives and is sustained by You, and those who dwell in the heavens fall down before You and worship.
Nehemiah 9:6 (The Voice)
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Morning Glory
He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day.
John Milton
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Give Them a Chance
My friend gave me some seed she collected after I complimented her garden last summer. It amazes me to see what can grow from an ugly tiny brown thing in an envelope. I didn’t think I could grow zinnias in a pot on my balcony, but I planted and watered them anyway. Now look.
May the Lord grant us the ability to see the beauty in people when they are still in their unimpressive stage. May we give them a chance anyway.
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Startled
“Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.”
Frederick Buechner
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Today
There is something particularly precious about the last flowers in the garden at the end of the season. We know the frost will show up one of these nights.
Sometimes we can sense a change in the atmosphere, a shifting in the angle of light, a different scent in the air. Change is coming.
Change means we eventually may need to let go of the rewards of past efforts, but today we stop and admire the beauty in this moment. Today we thank God for his faithfulness. Today we sing.
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Teach me to Understand
Demonstrate Your ways, O Eternal One.
Teach me to understand so I can follow.
Ease me down the path of Your truth.
Feed me Your word
because You are the True God who has saved me.
I wait all day long, hoping, trusting in You.
Psalm 25:4, 5 The Voice
Charis: Subject to Change 