Love says thank you 1,000 times (#’s 711-721)

December 26, 2011

source This month was just supposed to be a study of humility… leading to a quiet, humble, simple Christmas season. I sought humility, and as so often happens with God, I didn’t find it… it found me…cut me low…to the core…exposed…vulnerable…bleeding… slandered… (if you don’t know, it began here, but there did not stay) and […]

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Love just. keeps. following. that. star.

December 23, 2011

  A pinpoint of light Constant at first commonplace now glimmering among the celestial Few would take note or regard but not I for I knew not of this universe, but beyond heavenly radiance essence of God poured into one pinpoint of light To sail above sky above clouds to dart above midnight blue behold […]

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Love arrives wrapped in swaddling………..humility

December 21, 2011

source And a hand raises to beckon him near… closer…closer…face to face… and a wave of pain passes and she breathes… and her palm to his face she turns his head… his ear to her lips… and a whisper… “Makes sense…baby…savior…sheep…cave” This is part 2 of this Christmas story, told as you haven’t heard, please […]

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Love arrives early…Mary…Joseph…August 16th?

December 20, 2011

Just saws and rulers and hammers, and nails… source …but not for long… December 25, 7 BC And she seems so devout. How can nobody have seen this? Lord, how could you not have shown me that she wasn’t what I thought? People don’t think that I can hear what they say. Business is slow. […]

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Love says thank you 1,000 times (#’s 699…710)

December 19, 2011

source When the insomnia is like this, and regardless of medication won’t let me sustain sleep for more than 20 min…my stomach ties in knots…thoughts are disjointed like a movie shot from 20 different angles…and life is like watching the movie and the angles change every second. Ideas flow nonstop and are hard to pull […]

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Love makes the Great Wager

December 15, 2011

source I had a nice long talk with our Lord last night… it was about him being God… and me believing in him. And I used a gambling term… And I’m not the first to equate faith with a gamble. It’s famous this proposition, it even has a name… Pascal’s Wager…the reason to “bet” on […]

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Love doesn’t put lids on hurt…it shares…it spills

December 13, 2011

Before this year I named “connect” what happened last week would’ve been easy to walk around…walk over…ignore. Because before this year… I only looked as if I were paying attention… but never was. I dealt with any rejection by curling up tight… feeling it alone, until forgetting set in… no learning, no changing, no sharing. […]

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