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Mind Games
Mind Games Trigger my mind to love. My thoughts will come alive.I will love everyoneand everything today.I am in control.I can make the decisionto love today.You have given me the gift of choice.No matter what I am going through,I will manifest the fruit of love.
Wings
Wings Butterfly-to-be: A pupa inside this chrysalis.Life-before-life, alone in a quiet place,never dreaming, thinking or hopingthat there’s a future out here in the real world.It seems illogical to destroy comfortable cocoons;and yet it must be donefor the life we are meant to live must begin.Help me learn how to recognize change,to be prepared f...
Finding Home
Finding Home I wish for a housewith many roomsto hold all my prayersfor you, my friend.Happiness will sleepin the still places:in cups of tea, picture framesand the smell of hopethat wraps around walls.
The Small Stuff
The Small Stuff I sometimes have this sinking suspicion that God hates me. You know the feeling, you’re at a party, forced to talk to that woman you don’t like and every time she says you look great in that particular shade of vermillion all you really hear is “You look like you’ve gained weight. And your husband’s a total tool.” Sometimes, I think God and this woman are best hair braiding buddies. This is...
Sacred Space
Sacred Space There are eight million stories in the naked city,all of them overlapping.Help us find a way to take our homes with us,to carry them inside us so that we're never lost.Create a mobile sacred space for each of usso that there's no need for us to clash or collide.Help us to play well with others. Allow us a portion of Your eminent...
Secular Songs
Secular Songs with Secret Spiritual Significance: Part One I have a confession. I love top 40 hits. Say what? Yes, I know, top 40 songs aren’t exactly the most praise-filled, godly, spiritual, (insert any generic religious adjective here), etc. Some are downright dirty and scandalous.
Clearer Vision
Clearer Vision Looking at the world the way it seems to beis such an exhausting endeavor.It takes a lot of energy to process the bad news,to deal with the crotchety co-workers,and to budget my time and talents.Re-train my mind so that I see what might be, first.Be with me as I look at what is and sift through itto find that kernel of...
Time of Waiting
Advent is a Time of Waiting Among other things, Advent is a time of waiting. This theme was emphasized with the snowfall and frigid temperatures we in the Midwest experienced this weekend. We live close to our church and my husband was head usher, so we pulled on sweaters and boots. At church, we waited with our pastor who made the trip over u...
Lighthouses in Dark Waters
Lighthouses in Dark Waters "I'm a little piece of leather, but I'm well put together."And she was. My Grandma. Sassy and sacred in one incredibly charming package. When she wasn't watching the 700 Club, she snapped fresh string beans, or shucked Grandad-grown corn while watching the Price is Right or Family Feud.
Portion Control
Portion Control I would pay a lot of money for a little amount of caramel corn. I was cutting through the food court, when my nose took me past
Gracefully Aging: Prayer for Betty
Gracefully Aging: Prayer for Betty Raised in a Christian home, Betty was brought up by her parents to love her spiritual roots and have a strong sense of family. At the young age of 15, she married her one and only sweetheart to start a household of her own. The couple was married for 52 years until her husband’s passing. She continues to be a devoted wife, even after her husband’s death, and the loving mother of three...
Appoggiatura
Appoggiatura In Italian there is alingering note that precedesthe fugue of living.Appoggiatura - a sustained tonethat cuts into the timeof the next chord.Sometimes it's called a grace notealternately, a time-stealer.
The Best Gift
The Best Gift of All For the fourth Sunday of Advent, the couple who lit the Advent wreath read about the birth of Christ. They discuss how the greatest gift of all came in the form of a tiny baby. For those who were awaiting a warrior king, it was so far beyond their expectations, that they didn’t even notice. Not only did the Messiah come as a baby, he was born in l...
Looking Ahead
Looking Ahead Hope is the thought of a hand pressedto the small of my back when Iam old and need help up the steps.Love is the sight of someone peelingan orange for two, a brightsweet Sunday morning smell.And, may I not forget:Patience is believing all thisshall arrive in one momentthat I have yet to meet.
Response to Love
Response to Love You are the center of everything.You exist, I know. You’re there to keep me dreaming. You ask me to keep trustingin an infinite planthat will surely bring peace.So amid my sadness,among this doubt,to you, I say:You are e...
Coffee and Apathy
Coffee and Apathy Commiserate. "Bitch and moan." Kvetch. The English offer each other "tea and sympathy." What we do here in the states could be better described as "coffee and apathy." Most of us have become fairly adept at seeming to care about the travails of our fellow travelers on the road of life. We issue the appropriate...
New Leaves
New Leaves I was one of the few Maltese babies born in what was at the time a hospital mostly used by the British Forces in Malta – hence named after King George V – in 1959. By the time 1978 had rolled around, much water had flowed under the bridge, and the hospital had had a name change; it was now named after Sir Paul Boffa, a Maltese politician.
