The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly The Good The Good thing about quiet is the beautiful music that is there. The swirling tones that enfold you. The Good thing about quiet is how I can hear better what you are thinking and feeling when you aren’t speaking to me. The quiet has its own voice. Its own knowledge. Its own approach to life. It can go inside you to places that you aren’t even aware exist. The Good thing about...
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(by Henri J. Nouwen) Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. You might be afraid of the pain that deep love can cause. When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply. The pain that comes from deep love makes your love ever more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root and grow into a strong plant....
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Lord Jesus, you are the master of life and death. Everything I have is yours, and I love you very deeply. Just one touch from you restores the sick, heals the broken, and transforms the darkness. Only you can do this. Only you. So I ask that you would be with (name/s) right now: May he sense your presence. May she feel your power. May he know your love. May they body be overwhelmed; With light and truth; With healing and wellness....
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Blessed art thou, O Lord, who has created and brought me forth into this life, and hast ordered that I should be a living soul and not senseless matter; a man, not a brute; civilized, not savage; free, not a slave; legitimate, nor spurious; of good parentage, not of vile extraction and as vile myself; endued with sense, not an idiot; sound in sense, not blind or deaf; sound in limbs, not halt nor maimed; educated, not neglected; a...
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Leaving God out of the picture When my daughter was young, she watched a television show called, The Magic School Bus. It was, as the title tells us, about the adventures of a school teacher, her students, and a bus that had magical qualities. One such quality was to shrink down in size and then go places where an ordinary-sized school bus could not go. A journey on this bus through man’s psyche was my general impression of...
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