tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63898365915083237942024-02-07T14:40:28.675-05:00all that i amsings of the God who brings new life to birth in me, my spirit soars on the wings of my Godallisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.comBlogger1327125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-38972831033891131692023-10-01T14:13:00.000-04:002023-10-01T14:13:04.368-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">everyone's life is so beautiful</div><div style="text-align: center;">beautifully composed</div><div style="text-align: center;">saturated with color </div><div style="text-align: center;">perfectly focused </div><div style="text-align: center;">rich with texture</div><div style="text-align: center;">softly focused</div><div style="text-align: center;">uncluttered</div><div style="text-align: center;">balanced </div><div style="text-align: center;">well lit</div><div style="text-align: center;">subtle</div><div style="text-align: center;">pure</div><div style="text-align: center;">but</div><div style="text-align: center;">maybe</div><div style="text-align: center;">creativity</div><div style="text-align: center;">is gleening</div><div style="text-align: center;"> and capturing</div><div style="text-align: center;"> the beauty I so long for</div><div style="text-align: center;">from this cluttered, mundane </div><div style="text-align: center;">and ordinary life</div><div style="text-align: center;">that I live</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-69815671998563271112023-10-01T14:08:00.000-04:002023-10-01T14:08:38.079-04:00“<em>Before you had the experience </em><br />
<em>you used to think you could speak of God. </em><br />
<em>Once you have the experience of God </em><br />
<em>you can never say what you have experienced</em>.” <br />
<br />
<em>Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.</em><br />
St. Augustineallisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-57221975510701463602023-10-01T14:07:00.001-04:002023-10-01T14:07:24.152-04:00and have it more, abundantly<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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don't they know it's the end of the world?<br />
it ended when you said good-bye...allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-85378835626455506022023-10-01T13:30:00.000-04:002023-10-01T13:30:39.683-04:00who'd a thought the week before our daughter marries<br />
we'd be draining our hot water furnace...<br />
to fix a leaky valve<br />
and having the heating and cooling guy<br />
check the furnace on the b side while he's here<br />
installing a new exterior door on the b side<br />
buying knobs for the b side kitchen cabinets<br />
picking up the sewing machine<br />
from the repair shop<br />
and talking to the bakery that's making the wedding cake...<br />
all in the same morning!!??allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-3902996341211232532023-10-01T13:24:00.000-04:002023-10-01T13:24:38.236-04:0015 months<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrjQHjjl_3gCDvWJGkNg5iqXJQKDCnknS9COY6G2nrgVamskSqpH7Te5Bw8qoKy8uaP8HWJrwu0ts2k6lmKrH-9pnu-Ft4zjeroRJLtJZYz7fyjt5p-c1g_PBN9JKkFYWQWNdvD_eCpUl5/s400/SCAN0368.JPG" />allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-75852279867450529332023-10-01T13:23:00.000-04:002023-10-01T13:23:22.414-04:00If we were in 'Garp's world'<br />
we'd watch for the<i> undertoad</i><br />
<i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allisondegeorge/6142165293/" title="DSC_0505 by lalagag, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0505" height="426" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6202/6142165293_8c3604349f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a></i><br />
<i><br />
</i><br />
but we're in our woman's world<br />
so we watch and wait with blessed hope and expectation<br />
we pray with out ceasing<br />
<br />
and yet last night we are wakeful all thru the night<br />
watching and waiting<br />
and praying<br />
for the lion that is lurking...<br />
on just the other side of the door<br />
<br />
I thought we were prayed up<br />
praised up<br />
ready<br />
but the hon...<br />
what oh my has he done?!?!allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-33193226389771879512023-10-01T13:22:00.000-04:002023-10-01T13:22:22.374-04:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allisondegeorge/5021242146/" title="DSC_0666 by lalagag, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0666" height="426" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/5021242146_95d628b46d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Hanuman, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Hanuman, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allisondegeorge/6273315861/" title="DSC_0807 by lalagag, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0807" height="266" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6103/6273315861_7dfaa24d18_z.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; line-height: 14px;">I am not quite an 'old soul'</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">getting up there...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">but, not quite just yet!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">though I have heard it said even of young children and<i> babies</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">'they have an old soul'</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">meaning they seem somehow to be wise beyond their years?!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">something in their eyes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">like they've already lived....</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">I claim no wisdom</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">tho I have lived many years</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">and I only have hints of precious things</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">that may be...ages away</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">or </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">may be closer than I think</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">what I know </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">from </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179; line-height: 14px;">what I have seen, and tasted and smelled</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">is sometimes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">somewhat different</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">than what I dream</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">and hope for</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">in my soul </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">for these present days</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">and for ages away</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">and what I know</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">is sometimes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">somewhat different </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">from what I believe</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">I believe there is love</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">I believe God is good</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">but what I know</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">is that there is divorce</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">my parents divorced</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">my mother's parents divorced before her</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">my mother divorced twice </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">my father's wife divorced before marrying him</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">my sister divorced</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">my brother divorced</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">my husband's father lost his wife</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">and remarried a divorced woman</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">one of my husband's sister divorced</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">another sister married a divorced man</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">only two out of ten of us are married in the church</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">and are married still</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">one is unmarried</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">and one has been living with her boyfriend for years now</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">but I believe</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">that two people can love each other</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">their entire life</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #888179;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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I woke this morning and put our Easter grass in the sun</div>
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hoping for a fuller bowl come Easter day</div>
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when suddenly the skies are grey </div>
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and I hear the sounds of an extremely hard rain coming down </div>
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hail...</div>
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not what I expected!??!?</div>
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and I didn't think I'd be sitting in the sun</div>
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in the cemetery</div>
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later in the afternoon either...</div>
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but due to unknown to me, road construction</div>
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traffic lead me to a place I couldn't make </div>
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the left hand turn I needed to take </div>
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to arrive at my pre-determined destination</div>
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at the designated time</div>
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and so I made the right at the light</div>
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and knew immediately were I was going to spend </div>
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a little unexpected time</div>
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of blessing</div>
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I like to take pictures</div>
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I told someone I was going to be shooting my first wedding</div>
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oh they asked</div>
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are you a photographer?</div>
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and I said no</div>
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I just take pictures</div>
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and they said</div>
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no you must be a photographer...</div>
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they didn't ask you as carpenter to come to their wedding</div>
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to take pictures</div>
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though perhaps he could</div>
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but then he would also be a photographer</div>
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I understood what they were saying!?!?</div>
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even if I can't explain it well</div>
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I'm better visually</div>
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I've heard it said</div>
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but I know what I like"</div>
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I too know what I like</div>
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and so many times I see images</div>
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and wonder</div>
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oh my</div>
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how did they shoot that?</div>
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why can't I do that</div>
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and one day I realized editing</div>
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and photoshop</div>
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and slowly I am learning to use those tools</div>
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just as I've learned to use my camera!</div>
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but mostly I prefer to only shoot thru the lens</div>
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to compose</div>
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to set for the light I wish to capture</div>
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to underexpose</div>
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to overexpose</div>
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to focus</div>
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or not to focus</div>
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not that there's anything wrong with cropping later</div>
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or editing </div>
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or coloring</div>
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or deleting color</div>
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of changing to soft focus</div>
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but somehow it feels more genuine</div>
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pure to do it with my eye</div>
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to capture what is</div>
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although</div>
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just because I shoot that way</div>
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does that mean that is what is?</div>
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I say I am never photographing another flower</div>
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tooooo many</div>
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yet I do</div>
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what if I had been at the kennedy assasination</div>
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and was taking pictures of the grass on the knoll</div>
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that would be dis genuine as well</div>
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but I wasn't</div>
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and I'm not in Africa taking safari shots</div>
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or images of those still dieing of hunger aids and malaria</div>
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or a photojounalist</div>
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for the latest college riot</div>
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I work in a gift shop</div>
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dusting things to buy</div>
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and luring people in off the street to buy</div>
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and unpacking boxes from china full of unnecesary things for people to buy</div>
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the world is a bad sad beautiful world</div>
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what do I compose my life around</div>
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what is my subject</div>
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and how do I wish to portray it?!</div>
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"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship."<br />— <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1069006.C_S_Lewis" style="color: #666600; text-decoration: none;" title="C.S. Lewis quotes">C.S. Lewis</a> (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237463.Inspirational_Writings_of_C_S_Lewis" style="color: #666600; text-decoration: none;">Inspirational Writings of C.S. Lewis: Surprised by Joy, Reflections on the Psalms, the Four Loves, the Business of Heaven</a>)</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">“Our life is a short time in expectation, a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. There is a quality of sadness that pervades all the moments of our lives. It seems that there is no such thing as a clear-cut pure joy, but that even in the most happy moments of our existence we sense a tinge of sadness. In every satisfaction, there is an awareness of limitations. In every success, there is the fear of jealousy. Behind every smile, there is a tear. In every embrace, there is loneliness. In every friendship, distance. And in all forms of light, there is the knowledge of surrounding darkness . . . But this intimate experience in which every bit of life is touched by a bit of death can point us beyond the limits of our existence. It can do so by making us look forward in expectation to the day when our hearts will be filled with perfect joy, a joy that no one shall take away from us.” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4837.Henri_J_M_Nouwen" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Henri J.M. Nouwen</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/188381" style="color: #666600; text-decoration: none;">Making All Things New: An Invitation to the Spiritual Life</a></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words: but most of your friends do not see it at all, and often wonder why, liking this, you should also like that. Again, you have stood before some landscape, which seems to embody what you have been looking for all your life; and then turned to the friend at your side who appears to be seeing what you saw -- but at the first words a gulf yawns between you, and you realise that this landscape means something totally different to him, that he is pursuing an alien vision and cares nothing for the ineffable suggestion by which you are transported. Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of -- something, not to be identified with, but always on the verge of breaking through, the smell of cut wood in the workshop or the clap-clap of water against the boat's side? Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it. All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it -- tantalising glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest -- if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself -- you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say "Here at last is the thing I was made for". We cannot tell each other about it. It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the thing we desired before we met our wives or made our friends or chose our work, and which we shall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work. While we are, this is. If we lose this, we lose all.” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">C.S. Lewis</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2976220" style="color: #666600; text-decoration: none;">The Problem of Pain</a></i>allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-50310340984113689222023-10-01T13:14:00.000-04:002023-10-01T13:14:04.811-04:00<br />
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<span class="text Job-38-1" id="en-NIV-13795">The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> Speaks</span></h3>
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<span class="text Job-38-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">38 </span>Then the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> spoke to Job<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13795A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)"></sup> out of the storm.<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13795B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)"></sup> He said:</span></div>
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<span class="text Job-38-2" id="en-NIV-13796" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">2 </sup>“Who is this that obscures my plans<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13796C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-2" style="position: relative;">with words without knowledge?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13796D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-3" id="en-NIV-13797" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">3 </sup>Brace yourself like a man;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-3" style="position: relative;">I will question you,</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-3" style="position: relative;">and you shall answer me.<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13797E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)"></sup></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-38-4" id="en-NIV-13798" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">4 </sup>“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13798F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-4" style="position: relative;">Tell me, if you understand.<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13798G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-5" id="en-NIV-13799" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">5 </sup>Who marked off its dimensions?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13799H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)"></sup> Surely you know!</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-5" style="position: relative;">Who stretched a measuring line<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13799I" title="See cross-reference I">I</a>)"></sup> across it?</span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-6" id="en-NIV-13800" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">6 </sup>On what were its footings set,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13800J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-6" style="position: relative;">or who laid its cornerstone<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13800K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)"></sup>—</span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-7" id="en-NIV-13801" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">7 </sup>while the morning stars<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13801L" title="See cross-reference L">L</a>)"></sup> sang together<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13801M" title="See cross-reference M">M</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-7" style="position: relative;">and all the angels<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-13801a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+38&version=NIV#fen-NIV-13801a" style="color: #b37162; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</sup><sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13801N" title="See cross-reference N">N</a>)"></sup> shouted for joy?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13801O" title="See cross-reference O">O</a>)"></sup></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-38-8" id="en-NIV-13802" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">8 </sup>“Who shut up the sea behind doors<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13802P" title="See cross-reference P">P</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-8" style="position: relative;">when it burst forth from the womb,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13802Q" title="See cross-reference Q">Q</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-9" id="en-NIV-13803" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">9 </sup>when I made the clouds its garment</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-9" style="position: relative;">and wrapped it in thick darkness,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13803R" title="See cross-reference R">R</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-10" id="en-NIV-13804" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">10 </sup>when I fixed limits for it<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13804S" title="See cross-reference S">S</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-10" style="position: relative;">and set its doors and bars in place,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13804T" title="See cross-reference T">T</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-11" id="en-NIV-13805" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">11 </sup>when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13805U" title="See cross-reference U">U</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-11" style="position: relative;">here is where your proud waves halt’?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13805V" title="See cross-reference V">V</a>)"></sup></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-38-12" id="en-NIV-13806" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">12 </sup>“Have you ever given orders to the morning,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13806W" title="See cross-reference W">W</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-12" style="position: relative;">or shown the dawn its place,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13806X" title="See cross-reference X">X</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-13" id="en-NIV-13807" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">13 </sup>that it might take the earth by the edges</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-13" style="position: relative;">and shake the wicked<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13807Y" title="See cross-reference Y">Y</a>)"></sup> out of it?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13807Z" title="See cross-reference Z">Z</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-14" id="en-NIV-13808" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">14 </sup>The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13808AA" title="See cross-reference AA">AA</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-14" style="position: relative;">its features stand out like those of a garment.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-15" id="en-NIV-13809" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">15 </sup>The wicked are denied their light,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13809AB" title="See cross-reference AB">AB</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-15" style="position: relative;">and their upraised arm is broken.<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13809AC" title="See cross-reference AC">AC</a>)"></sup></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-38-16" id="en-NIV-13810" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">16 </sup>“Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-16" style="position: relative;">or walked in the recesses of the deep?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13810AD" title="See cross-reference AD">AD</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-17" id="en-NIV-13811" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">17 </sup>Have the gates of death<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13811AE" title="See cross-reference AE">AE</a>)"></sup> been shown to you?</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-17" style="position: relative;">Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13811AF" title="See cross-reference AF">AF</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-18" id="en-NIV-13812" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">18 </sup>Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13812AG" title="See cross-reference AG">AG</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-18" style="position: relative;">Tell me, if you know all this.<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13812AH" title="See cross-reference AH">AH</a>)"></sup></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-38-19" id="en-NIV-13813" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">19 </sup>“What is the way to the abode of light?</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-19" style="position: relative;">And where does darkness reside?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13813AI" title="See cross-reference AI">AI</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-20" id="en-NIV-13814" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">20 </sup>Can you take them to their places?</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-20" style="position: relative;">Do you know the paths<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13814AJ" title="See cross-reference AJ">AJ</a>)"></sup> to their dwellings?</span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-21" id="en-NIV-13815" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">21 </sup>Surely you know, for you were already born!<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13815AK" title="See cross-reference AK">AK</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-21" style="position: relative;">You have lived so many years!</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-38-22" id="en-NIV-13816" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">22 </sup>“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13816AL" title="See cross-reference AL">AL</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-22" style="position: relative;">or seen the storehouses<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13816AM" title="See cross-reference AM">AM</a>)"></sup> of the hail,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13816AN" title="See cross-reference AN">AN</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-23" id="en-NIV-13817" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">23 </sup>which I reserve for times of trouble,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13817AO" title="See cross-reference AO">AO</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-23" style="position: relative;">for days of war and battle?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13817AP" title="See cross-reference AP">AP</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-24" id="en-NIV-13818" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">24 </sup>What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13818AQ" title="See cross-reference AQ">AQ</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-24" style="position: relative;">or the place where the east winds<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13818AR" title="See cross-reference AR">AR</a>)"></sup> are scattered over the earth?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13818AS" title="See cross-reference AS">AS</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-25" id="en-NIV-13819" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">25 </sup>Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-25" style="position: relative;">and a path for the thunderstorm,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13819AT" title="See cross-reference AT">AT</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-26" id="en-NIV-13820" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">26 </sup>to water<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13820AU" title="See cross-reference AU">AU</a>)"></sup> a land where no one lives,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-26" style="position: relative;">an uninhabited desert,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13820AV" title="See cross-reference AV">AV</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-27" id="en-NIV-13821" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">27 </sup>to satisfy a desolate wasteland</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-27" style="position: relative;">and make it sprout with grass?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13821AW" title="See cross-reference AW">AW</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-28" id="en-NIV-13822" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">28 </sup>Does the rain have a father?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13822AX" title="See cross-reference AX">AX</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-28" style="position: relative;">Who fathers the drops of dew?</span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-29" id="en-NIV-13823" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">29 </sup>From whose womb comes the ice?</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-29" style="position: relative;">Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13823AY" title="See cross-reference AY">AY</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-30" id="en-NIV-13824" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">30 </sup>when the waters become hard as stone,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-30" style="position: relative;">when the surface of the deep is frozen?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13824AZ" title="See cross-reference AZ">AZ</a>)"></sup></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-38-31" id="en-NIV-13825" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">31 </sup>“Can you bind the chains<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-13825b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+38&version=NIV#fen-NIV-13825b" style="color: #b37162; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</sup> of the Pleiades?</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-31" style="position: relative;">Can you loosen Orion’s belt?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13825BA" title="See cross-reference BA">BA</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-32" id="en-NIV-13826" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">32 </sup>Can you bring forth the constellations<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13826BB" title="See cross-reference BB">BB</a>)"></sup> in their seasons<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-13826c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+38&version=NIV#fen-NIV-13826c" style="color: #b37162; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-32" style="position: relative;">or lead out the Bear<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-13826d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+38&version=NIV#fen-NIV-13826d" style="color: #b37162; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</sup> with its cubs?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13826BC" title="See cross-reference BC">BC</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-33" id="en-NIV-13827" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">33 </sup>Do you know the laws<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13827BD" title="See cross-reference BD">BD</a>)"></sup> of the heavens?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13827BE" title="See cross-reference BE">BE</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-33" style="position: relative;">Can you set up God’s<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-13827e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+38&version=NIV#fen-NIV-13827e" style="color: #b37162; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</sup> dominion over the earth?</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-38-34" id="en-NIV-13828" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">34 </sup>“Can you raise your voice to the clouds</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-34" style="position: relative;">and cover yourself with a flood of water?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13828BF" title="See cross-reference BF">BF</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-35" id="en-NIV-13829" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">35 </sup>Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13829BG" title="See cross-reference BG">BG</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-35" style="position: relative;">Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?</span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-36" id="en-NIV-13830" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">36 </sup>Who gives the ibis wisdom<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-13830f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+38&version=NIV#fen-NIV-13830f" style="color: #b37162; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</sup><sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13830BH" title="See cross-reference BH">BH</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-36" style="position: relative;">or gives the rooster understanding?<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-13830g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+38&version=NIV#fen-NIV-13830g" style="color: #b37162; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</sup><sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13830BI" title="See cross-reference BI">BI</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-37" id="en-NIV-13831" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">37 </sup>Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-37" style="position: relative;">Who can tip over the water jars<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13831BJ" title="See cross-reference BJ">BJ</a>)"></sup> of the heavens<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13831BK" title="See cross-reference BK">BK</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-38" id="en-NIV-13832" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">38 </sup>when the dust becomes hard<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13832BL" title="See cross-reference BL">BL</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-38" style="position: relative;">and the clods of earth stick together?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13832BM" title="See cross-reference BM">BM</a>)"></sup></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-38-39" id="en-NIV-13833" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">39 </sup>“Do you hunt the prey for the lioness</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-39" style="position: relative;">and satisfy the hunger of the lions<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13833BN" title="See cross-reference BN">BN</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-40" id="en-NIV-13834" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">40 </sup>when they crouch in their dens<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13834BO" title="See cross-reference BO">BO</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-40" style="position: relative;">or lie in wait in a thicket?<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13834BP" title="See cross-reference BP">BP</a>)"></sup></span></span><br />
<span class="text Job-38-41" id="en-NIV-13835" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">41 </sup>Who provides food<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13835BQ" title="See cross-reference BQ">BQ</a>)"></sup> for the raven<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13835BR" title="See cross-reference BR">BR</a>)"></sup></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-41" style="position: relative;">when its young cry out to God</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Job-38-41" style="position: relative;">and wander about for lack of food?</span></span></div>
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allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-60132162718195304972023-10-01T13:11:00.000-04:002023-10-01T13:11:11.024-04:00<br />
one evening earlier this month<br />
as hon was up<br />
making or grading<br />
the most recent test<br />
I was in my favorite corner of the sofa<br />
perusing the channels<br />
free to watch whatever my little heart desired!?!?<br />
and I landed on a classic<br />
that I've seen many times before<br />
<br />
but this time as the overture played<br />
I saw something I don't ever remember seeing before<br />
<br />
cold<br />
warm<br />
images<br />
abstract<br />
beautiful<br />
<br />
they reminded me of a painting I did<br />
way back in art school<br />
I was inspired<br />
<br />
so on this dark and rainy day<br />
I am painting a Christmas gift<br />
<br />
I<br />
am painting...<br />
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<br />allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-90354541535843468502023-10-01T13:07:00.000-04:002023-10-01T13:07:05.845-04:00two little words<br />
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />"O God, who delight in innocence and restore it,<br />
direct the <b>hearts </b>of your servants to yourself,<br />
that, caught up in the fire of your Spirit,<br />
we may be found steadfast in faith<br />
and effective in works."<br />
today's collect<br />
<br />
"The <b>heart</b> is deceitful above all things,<br />
and desperately wicked;<br />
who can know it?<br />
I, the Lord, search the <b>heart</b>.<br />
I test the mind.<br />
Even to give every man according to his ways,<br />
according to the fruit of his doings."<br />
Jeremiah 17:9-10<br />
<br />
"Submit to God, Resist the devil and he will flee from you.<br />
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.<br />
Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your <b>hearts</b>, you double-minded.<br />
Lament and mourn and weep!<br />
Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.<br />
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up."<br />
James 4:7-9<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">someone's brother</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">someone's son</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">"Immediate death would be an easy option for him."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I prayed against everything in me</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">that he would die when they took him...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">that he would stand before the merciful eyes of His maker</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">rather than the righteous judgement of this manic media world</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">we will all fall before the One who created us</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">who loves us into being</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">the One who asks us to love</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">not to judge</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">but to love</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">to love those never loved</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">to love those unworthy of love</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">to love those least deserving of love</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">he lived</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">I pray he comes to know God's love</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"> as we have come to know and are convinced of God's love</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-88369793141131386892023-10-01T13:04:00.000-04:002023-10-01T13:04:16.435-04:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ordering Our Desires</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Desire is often talked about as something we ought to overcome. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Still, being is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">desiring: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">our bodies, our minds, our hearts, and our souls are full of desires.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Some are unruly, turbulent, and very distracting; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">some make us think deep thoughts</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and see great visions; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">some teach us how to love; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and some keep us searching for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">God. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Our desire for God is the desire that should guide all other desires. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Otherwise</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">our bodies, minds, hearts, and souls become one another's enemies </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and our inner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lives become chaotic, leading us to despair and self-destruction.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Spiritual disciplines are not ways to eradicate all our desires </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">but ways to order </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">them so that they can serve one another </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and together serve God.</span>allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-15008723126378702712023-10-01T13:03:00.000-04:002023-10-01T13:03:42.044-04:00a trip to the grocery<br />
on a saturday night<br />
passed a man carrying a little one<br />
crossing at the top of our street<br />
then a guy with a pony tail<br />
and european shoes<br />
and a trench coat<br />
of glen plaid<br />
in the coffee aisle<br />
no less<br />
sometimes my thoughts are visible before my eyesallisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-55610150985341364812023-10-01T13:02:00.000-04:002023-10-01T13:02:43.340-04:00a four hour lunch<br />
next to the river<br />
outside<br />
until thunder<br />
and downpours came<br />
then we continued vanilla cappuccinos inside<br />
until safe to flee to our cars<br />
how I'd love to do the same today<br />
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instead<br />
leftovers of yesterday's sandwich<br />
on the deck<br />
alone<br />
in the sun<br />
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finished addressing this morning<br />
and would love to stay home and tie it all together<br />
but at least by the weekend<br />
they can be delivered<br />
whew<br />
one more thing done<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">when I got into work </span>this afternoon </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">there was a bird in the front window</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">who had somehow gotten in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and had been locked in the shop all night</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">when I found him he was clinging to the carpet</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">wings open</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">pretty banged up</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">he allowed me to scoop him up in my little hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and carry him to safety</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I took him up the alley and around the corner </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and let him go there </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">where there was grass and shrubs and places to hide</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">because I was certain he was surely somehow wounded</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I opened my hand</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and he turned and looked at me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">but he just sat there clutching my finger for awhile</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">then he opened his wings and flew away</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">he was okay</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">goloo galay!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the first time I ever held a bird</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">so soft</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">so light</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Question from Above</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What are spiritual questions? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">They are questions from above. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Most questions people </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ask of Jesus are questions from below </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">such as the question about which of a woman's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">seven husbands she will be married to in the resurrection. Jesus does not answer </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this question because it comes from a legalistic mind-set. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It is a question from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">below.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Often Jesus responds by changing this question. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the case of the woman with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">seven husbands he says</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"At the resurrection men and women do not marry - </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">never read what God himself said to you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">'I am God of Abraham, the God of Isaac </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and the God of Jacob?' </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He is God not of the dead but of the living" (Matthew 22:23-30).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We have to keep looking for the spiritual question if we want spiritual answers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Henri Nouwen, Bread for the Journey</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and the next saddest words in the bible</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"the sea was no more........."</span><br />
allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-3146883532769347452023-10-01T13:00:00.001-04:002023-10-01T13:00:44.665-04:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Healing Contradictions</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The many contradictions in our lives - </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">such as being home while feeling homeless,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">being busy while feeling bored, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">being popular while feeling lonely,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">being believers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">while feeling many doubts </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">can frustrate, irritate, and even discourage us. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">They </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">make us feel that we are never fully present. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Every door that opens for us makes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">us see how many more doors are closed.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But there is another response. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">These same contradictions </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">can bring us into touch </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with a deeper longing, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for the fulfillment of a desire that lives beneath all desires</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and that only God can satisfy. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Contradictions, thus understood, create the friction</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that can help us move toward God.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Henri J.M. Nouwen </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bread for the Journey</span>allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-19876007052935662672023-10-01T13:00:00.000-04:002023-10-01T13:00:05.920-04:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Freedom Attracts</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">When you are interiorly free you call others to freedom, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">whether you know it or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">not. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Freedom attracts wherever it appears. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A free man or a free woman </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">creates </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a space where others feel safe and want to dwell. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Our world is so full of conditions, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">demands, requirements, and obligations </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that we often wonder what is expected of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">us. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But when we meet a truly free person, there are no expectations, only an invitation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to reach into ourselves and discover there our own freedom.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Where true inner freedom is, there is God. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And where God is, there we want to be.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Growing Into Our True Freedom</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">True freedom is the freedom of the children of God. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To reach that freedom requires </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a lifelong discipline </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">since so much in our world militates against it. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The political, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">economic, social, and even religious powers </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">surrounding us all want to keep us in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">bondage </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so that we will obey their commands and be dependent on their rewards.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But the spiritual truth that leads to freedom </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is the truth that we belong not to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the world but to God, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">whose beloved children we are. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">By living lives in which </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we keep returning to that truth </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in word and deed, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we will gradually grow into our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">true freedom.</span>allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-61862145103964244102023-10-01T12:58:00.000-04:002023-10-01T12:58:45.753-04:00a blanketed morning nap on the beach in the sand<br />
windy and loud as the tide comes back in<br />
I wake suddenly to a baby crying over my shoulder<br />
I turn to look<br />
surprised that it's a gull<br />
I have never heard one make that sound<br />
but what I see in the sky as he passes<br />
is the triangle of the trinity<br />
with a dove<br />
descending<br />
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<br />allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-89200290341067150082023-10-01T12:57:00.000-04:002023-10-01T12:57:29.378-04:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jesus Is Pure of Heart</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jesus, the Beloved of God, has a pure heart. Having a pure heart means willing</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">one thing. Jesus wanted only to do the will of his heavenly Father. Whatever Jesus</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">did or said, he did and said it as the obedient Son of God: "What I say is what</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> the Father has taught me; he who sent me is with me, and has not left me to myself,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for I always do what pleases him" (John </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_643917655" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:28</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-29). There are no divisions in Jesus'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">heart, no double motives or secret intentions. In Jesus there is complete inner</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> unity because of his complete unity with God.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Becoming like Jesus is growing into purity of heart. That purity is what gave Jesus</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and will give us true spiritual vision.</span><br />
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St. Bonaventure, building on the Incarnation of God in Jesus and Francis’ love of all nature, saw the “traces” or “footprints” of God in everything. The whole world was also the “incarnation” of the God mystery, and indeed the very “Body of God” (<a color="#4F0E01" href="http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8:19-22&version=NIV;MSG;DRA;EXB" rel="nofollow" style="color: #4f0e01;" target="_blank">Romans 8:19-22</a>). Jesus is the microcosm of the macrocosm, the hologram of the whole, the corporate personality for humanity—in other words, the stand-in for everything and everyone else (see <a color="#4F0E01" href="http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+1:15-20&version=NIV;MSG;DRA;EXB" rel="nofollow" style="color: #4f0e01;" target="_blank">Colossians 1:15-20</a>).</div>
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“The journey of the soul into God,” as Bonaventure put it, was to learn how to see the unity of all being, how to look for this partially hidden God, and how to honor those footprints everywhere once you could see them. It was surrender to gratitude—and also to immense confidence that you were a part of something very good.</div>
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The result was a continuous life of appreciation and reverence, non-consumption, and simple joy—while still living a very busy life in the world! These were the hallmarks of Franciscan spirituality.</div>
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<br />allisondegeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10564738313385720926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389836591508323794.post-20383600896674454682023-10-01T12:55:00.001-04:002023-10-01T12:55:45.681-04:00holy joy, eternal gladnesssleepless night<br />
succumbing to<br />
tea at the sink staring at the night light<br />
coffee in the morning in the same spot<br />
<br />
tears for the night<br />
where is the joy that comes in the morning?<br />
<br />
instead a sobering coolness<br />
that even in these days in the midst of july I can't welcome<br />
bringing to close what is so soon to come<br />
<br />
I have thought I would not get through many times before<br />
and by God's grace<br />
here I am<br />
I have<br />
He has brought me safe thus far<br />
<br />
but why this now<br />
I had myself to loose before<br />
now so much more<br />
<br />
the drama I perform within my own little mind<br />
consumed<br />
obsessed<br />
convicted<br />
ashamed afraid<br />
<br />
and I think of those little boys<br />
mining gold in Africa<br />
lives<br />
in dust alone asleep balanced over the pits they have dug<br />
under the rusted machinery that takes their fingers, hands, arms<br />
hands in mercury<br />
toddlers at labour<br />
and human rights watch?!?!<br />
<br />
and I struggle in my internal world of fantasy, flesh and fear<br />
<br />
I have a home husband children luxury<br />
everything<br />
and I need<br />
even more<br />
want even more<br />
<br />
and I pray<br />
hold me, Lord<br />
secure in Your saving arms<br />
<br />
<br />
greater is He that is in you<br />
than He that is in the world<br />
<br />
I believe<br />
have mercy on me a sinner<br />
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