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Dancing With God

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Susan Irene Fox's avatarSusan Irene Fox

Don’t criticize me for my dance

with God, who brings me confidence.

He lifts my mind up from despair

because I know He’s everywhere.

The Father’s lavish love implants

my heart with kindness in advance

of meeting strangers unaware,

because I know He’s everywhere.

Through Jesus, grace shows evidence

of living water when dispensed

without condition, freely shared

because I know He’s everywhere.

The Spirit helps my faith advance,

in trust, and bloom, mature-enhance

the way I see; become aware

because I know He’s everywhere.

In gentle arms, I take a chance

to follow Him in this deep dance,

and heart to heart I sigh in prayer

because I know He’s everywhere.

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1372. The grass is vibrant. The rocks pulsate. All is in flux; turn but a stone and an angel moves. ~George MacLeod

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The garden of God in which we have been created has not be destroyed. Nor has it been abandoned. We may live in a state of exile from it, but God forever dwells in that place and seeks our company. ~Excerpt from THE BOOK OF CREATION by John Philip Newell

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The sun, moon and stars, in their harmonies of movement and light, are further theophanies or showing of God. Shining out of the darkness of space they express something of the inexpressible. “There is no speech, nor are there words,” says the Psalmist, “yet their voice goes out through all the earth.” The sun by day and the moon by night declare the mystery of God. What is it that they are saying? ~Excerpt from THE BOOK OF CREATION by John Philip Newell

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Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God’s eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. ~Robert Schumann

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Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
~Chief Seattle, 1855

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ~Genesis 1:1 ✝

**All flowery photos taken by Natalie in her yard.