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Just a thought by coppi
I was reading this morning different authors reflecting on prayer. Following are some that tugged my heart strings: Philip Yancey – “I have not attempted a guide book that details techniques such as fasting, prayer retreats, & spiritual direction. I investigate the topic of prayer as a pilgrim strolling about, staring at the monuments, asking questions, mulling…
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Howard Rutledge came to appreciate his time as a POW in Vietnam. He wrote, “After twenty-eight days of torture, I could remember I had children but not how many. I prayed for strength. During long periods of enforced reflection, it became so much easier to separate the important from the trivial. My hunger for spiritual…
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Just a thought by coppi Embrace each day as a gift……….i used to think life was forever. That there was loads of time. That I could do everything I wanted if I did it all slowly. I don’t think that anymore. Life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our choice. God did not make us…
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“For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.” Psalms 30:5 “You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy, that I might sing praises to you…
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“Rather than fixating on what we cannot know, it’s better to focus on what we can. Henri Nouwen: “The real enemies of our life are the ‘oughts’ and the ‘ifs.’ They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.” “If…
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Paul asks the question in Romans 8:31: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” The question isn’t simply, “Who can be against you?” You could answer that one. Who is against you? Disease, inflation, corruption, and exhaustion. Calamities-confront us and fears imprison. Were Paul’s question, “Who can be against us?” we could…
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A cosmic game of hide and seek is often how many view the search for God. “Where are you?” is the question that echoes throughout the ages as human beings seek for God in a vast universe often filled with inexplicable mystery- Margaret a Manning Oct 19, 2020 Have you ever wondered where God was…
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Gal 6:4 let everyone be sure to do their very best, for then he will have the personal satisfaction of work done well & won’t need to compare himself with someone else. Gee, do you ever feel inadequate? I am an avid reader of devotions. They make me think & want to know more about Jesus. But when…
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Just a thought by coppi “Our tendency is to feel intuitively that the more difficult life gets, the more alone we are. As we sink further into pain, we sink further into felt isolation. The Bible corrects us. Our pain never outstrips what he himself shares in. We are never alone. That sorrow that feels…
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But his death, (Bourdain) coming just days after the suicide of the beloved designer Kate Spade, is at least as noteworthy for another reason: how powerfully it speaks to the discrepancy between what we see of people on the outside and what they’re experiencing on the inside; between their public faces and their private realities;…
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