Please note: This prayer is meant to be offered slowly, personally, and contemplatively, pausing frequently to listen to that “still, small voice” of God. The structure is important: The first three sections are a preparation and entry into God’s Presence, the Holy of Holies. Please pause as long as you need to feel that Presence. The fourth section is important preparation to pray against the armies of darkness....
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The Unseen Side Of Honor Burden is what shows us the unseen side of our responsibilities—our load. Instead of honor, it is burden. Or, to be exact, it is both honor and burden. We have each other. And the burden of each and every breath. Each and every touch. Each and every exchange. There is family. There is friend. There is enemy. All have his own basket of regrets, of unfulfilled wants, of unreached goals. It’s a flowing...
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Consider this, my Soul, that thou hast none whom thou mayest call thine own. Vain are thy wanderings on the Earth. Two days or three, then ends this Earthly life; yet all men boast that they are masters here. Time’s master, Death, will come and overthrow such masterships. Thy best-beloved, for whom thou art so terribly concerned, will she go with thee? Nay; rather, lest some ill befall the home, she will sprinkle with cow dung...
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The Unknown My whole life has been about The Mystery. The mystery of God. The mystery of life. And this whole mystery thing has meant two things to me: the unknown and being wrong. The unknown feels like a bottomless chasm. It only feels bottomless. But, in fact, when it’s time for The Mystery to be resolved, I land at the bottom. Hard. Absolute. The Truth Revealed. But in the meantime, between knowing that there is some...
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Holy Father, And the Lord said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the Earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? Then Satan answered the Lord, Does Job fear God for nought? Hast thou not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. (Job 1:8-10)...
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