“Intuition means exactly what it sounds like,
in-tuition! An inner tutor….that takes us forward daily.
It is a resource that, where recognized, has infinite potential.”
~ Sylvia Clare
~ Image by Garrett LeSage
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In the royal elegance and calmness of a swan, we often envy her confidence,
her quietly knowing with assurance, who she is. It is all from knowing
the One who made her, and the prayers she tucks in –
deeply embedded in her feathers,
until they are released –
as intercession.
Poetry and Image © Copyright 2017, ancient skies
Attitude is a choice.
Happiness is a choice.
Optimism is a choice.
Kindness is a choice.
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Giving is a choice.
Respect is a choice.
Whatever
Choice you
make makes you.
Choose wisely.
~Roy T. Bennett
Sometimes we make the right choice
for the wrong reason, and sometimes
we make the wrong choice for the right reason.
In truth, there is no wrong or right, only choice…
All of it is a lesson, which brings us to where
we need to be, for what we need to learn.
~Julie Parker
Choose my(God’s) instruction instead of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold, for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her. ~Proverbs 8:10-11 ✝
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While praying for the President
I also pray for those in need,
whose hopes have long ago been spent
on unkept promises decreed.
Christ said care for the least of these;
yes, even if they’re enemies.
For orphans, foreigners who mourn,
my God I pray our country aims
to care for those to whom I’m sworn
instead of rashly casting blame.
You told us to put others first;
to do that, let our grace emerge.
Oh Lord, please unify and reach
all those in power; open minds.
Let hearts invite – please, I beseech –
so shelter, food the least will find
along with safety, friendly eyes.
Please give us hearts to empathize.
And God, I pray for one more thing;
please give me strength to spread your light;
please lift me high upon Your wing
to speak of Your great love’s delight.
Allow Your grace to show…
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Gray, endless shades of
Gray, winter’s somber suit of
Gray, the season’s shroud
Beige, broad blankets of
Beige, chilling frosts turn green to
Beige, on what we trod
Color, drear shades of
Color, muted, faint hues of
Color, in stark realm
Winter, the woe of
Winter, shall soon be gone for
Winter, bows to spring
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I(God) desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. ~Isaiah 55:10-11 ✝
**All 4 haikus written by Natalie; most images from Pinterest; collages by Natalie; a few of the images in the last collage are ones I’ve taken in past winters
“In this
journey,
in the eloquent
moments
of each day,
I seek to celebrate
the
small graces,
and
offer up
the prayer of the
small.
It is of
small joys
that our greatnesses are
composed.”
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Artist~Charles Burton Barber
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it was like
inhaling a
fragrance
from a
delicate
pink flower.
faint. but there.
this small
feeling of hope.
but yet, over time
it grew stronger,
through all
life struggles.
©Linda J. Wolff 2017 – http://www.urbanpoetry2017.com
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Nor would He have created blue skies, nor sandy beaches nor stars above, nor beautiful flowers, nor falling snow, and on and on the list of clues goes. God wants to speak to us through all that He has made. All of Creation gives pointers into Yahweh’s mystery because it is part of His grand plan that we draw near Him for in so doing we discover our divinely-inspired and eternal connection to Abba, our Loving Father.
The most beautiful thing
we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good
as dead: his eyes are closed.
~Albert Einstein
Einstein is right; it’s impossible for science to explain everything and in the pause of wonder, rapt in awe, we come to appreciate the endless and vast wonders of what God’s mind imagined, what His words spoke, and what His hands created. Thus in being brought close to the heart and mind of God, one’s sense of childlike astonishment returns the I nexpressible joy and utter excitement of life. And it helps us to know on a more conscious level that there’s more to life than what we can understand and explain. That’s why I like to think of the unfathomable mysteries around us as sacred benedictions, blessing at the close of earth’s daily holy orders that encourage us to stay in the Lord’s keeping and to continue looking for more revelations of the Holy One’s nature and intent for our lives.
Who…is like You, LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders? ~Excerpted passage from Exodus 15:11 ✝
**These images were taken in the springtime, but that chair and others like it are always in close proximity to my door, and I sit in them on most everyday of the year even if it’s for just a short while.
Show me someone who hasn’t fallen on his face a few times
and I will show you someone who is probably standing still,
afraid, lonely and wishing they could be more like you.
So don’t let a setback hold you back…
Let’s see what we can make happen today!
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Beauty is a nectar which
intoxicates the soul.
~T.C. Henley
In north central Texas where I live, more often than not, we have a winter warm up for a week or so in January. It’s just enough for a few things to believe that spring has arrived and subsequently bloom weeks earlier than normal. As a result of this year’s January warm up, my first magnolia stellata, sometimes called the star magnolia, opened this morning believing that springtime had indeed arrived. Her white, tinged with pink, beauty intoxicated, as it always does, not only my soul but also my eyes. Thus I found myself uttering the usual litany of words about her stellar loveliness, words like exquisite, gorgeous, magnificent, elegant and so on. However, I given that I’m certain the magnolia has been egregiously duped by January’s treacherous travesty, I also offered up a prayer that none of her succeeding blooms should perish before the return to winter that February will bring.
Ecclesiastes 3:4 tell us there’s “a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance…,” and what amazes me is that even the creatures and beauties of the field seem to know this. The more I observe the goings on in my garden and other aspects of Creation, the more awestruck I become with its plans, its workings, and its Maker. God’s promises are rock solid and too is His faithfulness in keeping them. For no matter what may strike at the foundations of Creation, nothing stops it cycles and continuation. Another thing that simply blows my mind is that God specifically chose all of you and I to partner with Him in Creation’s amazing and ongoing drama. Perhaps that’s something we should contemplate and let sink down deep in our spirits every day and then thereafter take great delight in the peace that comes with such an awareness.
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens… ~Ecclesiastes 3:1 ✝
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