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Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy
Based in part on the Book of Lamentations and partly on life at times. Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy by Michael Romani Dark clouds lead to deep mercy Pulling at our faith like heresy Lamentations open doors of grace Tear filled … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, Calvary, Cloud, Core, Dark, Deep, Door, Faith, Father, Forgive, God, Grace, Grateful, Grief, Heresy, Implore, Indignity, Journey, Joy, Knee, Lamentations, Live, Love, Mercy, Minor Key, Pattern, Photograph, Pierce, Poem, Poetry, Question, Sad, Savior, Shown, Sorrow, Soul, Tear, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Way
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Thought For the Day: Give Thanks In the Morning For All You Have and If You Find No Reason, the Fault Lies In Yourself
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Be Attentive and See That Each Moment Is Filled With Joy and Happiness
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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Tagged Attentive, Fill, Happiness, Joy, Present Moment, See, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thought For the Day
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Finding Restorative Balance
Lately, though taking quite a hit in my life, I have also found through the good times and lessons given and learned some hints at new approaches for my health and peace. For that, I will always be eternally grateful. … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Balance, Beautiful, Being, Bliss, Calm, Cause, Changes, Clarity, Conditiion, Convention, Corrective, De-Stress, Deliberate Intention, Distract, Effect, Embrace, Find, Fluid, Focus, Gratitude, Happiness, Health, Improve, Joy, Life, Mind and Body, Moment, Mystery, Overwhelm, Pauses, Peace, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Reconnect, Reinvention, Relax, Restorative, See, Slow and Steady, Tai Chi, Thoughtfulness, Time and Space, Treasure, Wonderful, Yoga
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Joy In the Gifts of Hard Times
The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 7 is to write a poem about gifts and joy. Above this challenge was a bit about how poetry can prove quite the therapeutic tool. I can see this easily from my own life. From this … Continue reading
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Tapestry of Change and Joy
Based in part on 2 Cor.: Tapestry of Change and Joy by Michael Romani Praising our Lord and God in song and dance Loving the happenstance of our second chance Our God of second chances always there and willing To … Continue reading
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Tagged Anoint, Bright, Burn, Challenge, Change, Crawl, Daily Walk, Dance, Day, Do, Dsiplay, Faithfulness, Fear, Fight, Give, Glory, God, Gospel, Guiding Light, Heal, Hope, Humble, Jewel, Joy, Knees, Lord, Love, Move, Need, Night, Outward, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Prayer, Reliance, Resurrection, Salavation, Second Chance, Shake, Shelter, Song, Strength, Struggle, Talk, Tapestry, Triumph, Truth, Wisdom
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Truth Is Coming
A good case might be made that we are possibly living in the end times with the attacks on Christianity, the genocide committed against the unborn, and so many other countless atrocities including groups like ISIS. I was at church … Continue reading
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Tagged Alter, Bold, Christianity, Coming, Deploy, Die For, End Times, Forgive, Gatitude, Genocide, God, Gospel, Hands, History, Holy, ISIS, Joy, Liturgical Dance, Mercy, Peace, Photograph, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Power, Praise, Prayer, Preach, Relevation, Rest, Revelations, Rhetoric, Rising, Sermon, Shout, Slavery, Stand, Steady, Strength In the Blood, Strong, Talk, Thought, Truth, Walk, Word of God, World, Written
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Couple of Couplets To Get It Right
Poem A Day #3 is the rhyming couplet form. From Wikipedia: “A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet … Continue reading
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Questions For A New Year
It seems like maybe a good time to pause a moment and ask ourselves about our walk and whether it matches our talk may just the time we’re at now, the beginning of a new year. Based in part on … Continue reading
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