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just a thought by coppi
A prayer by Henri Nouwen that spoke to my heart today. I wanted to share it with my readers. Coppi Dear Lord, Give me eyes to see and ears to hear. I know there is light in the darkness that makes everything new. I know there is new life in suffering that opens a new earth…
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“We think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves…
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““For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV I awaken this morning with fear hanging over my shoulder, because I had a…
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Just a thought by coppi
What a challenge it is, Lord, for me to let you take over. I read this today and thought “yes, that is a true statement for me”. I remember as a child reading about the little train plugging along to climb a very steep hill – “I can do it, I can do it”, it kept repeating…
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A woman named Hagar first used one of these names. When God met her in her distress, she said, “You are the God who sees me… I have now seen the One who sees me” (Genesis 16:13). This phrase, “The God Who Sees Me,” is translated as “El Roi” in Hebrew. He said, “Hagar, slave of…
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just a thought by coppi
A woman named Hagar first used one of these names. When God met her in her distress, she said, “You are the God who sees me… I have now seen the One who sees me” (Genesis 16:13). This phrase, “The God Who Sees Me,” is translated as “El Roi” in Hebrew. He said, “Hagar, slave of…
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just a thought by coppi
Just a thought by coppi “Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” John Milton “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”…
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“And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.” Isaiah 42:16 Jesus’ words…
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A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. “This proverb draws a comparison between a friend and a brother and what is being highlighted is the constancy of a true friend. In the day when this proverb was written, there would have been strong cultural obligations upon family members to…
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Just a thought by coppi “Luke Ditewig of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Boston writes: “We Brothers say that the person who most gets under your skin in the community has a special role to play. That one is your teacher. Often what annoys us in another relates to something in ourselves.…
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