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a thousand stars
O Father may that Holy Star Grow every year more bright,
And send its glorious beams afar to fill the world with light.
-William Cullen Bryant
(star sunflowers / Sleive League, County Donegal, Ireland / Julie Cook / 2015)
Each evening during the season of Advent, as the sun sinks just beyond the horizon, watchful eyes lift skyward scanning the heavens eastward for a single star which shines brighter than the rest.
A sign
A signal
A symbol
As the Christian faithful gather together,
anxiously watching and waiting for direction.
A command
A compass
A course
Open questions now beg to be answered…
Where shall we go?
What are we to find?
What are we to do?
And as those questions skip across the nighttime breeze,
an unseen Hand scatters a thousand stars across a dark December sky…
To seek
To search
To share
To find
To forgive
To free
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The lotus…
Just like the lotus we too have the ability to rise from the mud, bloom out of the darkness, and radiate light into the world. ~Author Unknown
1003. We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night. ~Jack Kornfield
Joy does not simply happen to us.
We have to choose joy
and keep choosing it every day.
~Henri J.M. Nouwen
Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less
kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light. It was what
I was born for –
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world –
to instruct myself
over and over
in joy,
and acclamation.
~Excerpt from the poem, Mindful,
by Mary Oliver
…for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness. ~Psalm 26:3 ✝
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The one thing I can control
The World Changes Forever
Grow…
what lies in a heart
it’s not the grand gesture
the great sacrifice
that proves what lies
in a heart
but the accumulation
of the small things
that go unnoticed
during the daylight
the evening
of our lives
1002. Today my forest is dark.The trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings. ~Raine Cooper
Ya know, I do realize full well how lucky I am to be alive and I’m completely aware of what a gift every day is, but dang, if today hasn’t been full, and throwing them one right after the other, of those moments when “anything that can possibly go wrong, does.” On top of that the myriad of crappy moments started shortly after I awoke with a screaming migraine headache that’s still raging and will probably continue to do so until the wee hours of the morning. Even so I’ve done my best to hang in there and be the “Little Miss Sunshine” that one of my followers calls me, at least until now. So please forgive me if you are offended by the image below, but I believe we are born to be real, not perfect, and enough is enough already. There’s simply not enough shovels for this kind of lousy day…
Please Lord: Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. ~Psalm 51:2 ✝
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Impact…
Don’t ever underestimate the impact you may have on someone else’s life.
