When: Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:00 AM to Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life? For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done.
Matthew 16: 24 – 27
If you should ask me what is the way of God, I would tell you that it is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
— St. Augustine
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful for yesterday, grateful for today, You fill me with memories, You show me what means the most to me, and all the way You keep blessing me and touch me to let me know that You are with me, and so more and more in the simplest of things I find myself saying ‘my Lord God is with me, thank You Lord God‘. You know me better than I know myself, You know the number of hairs on my head and what is best for me; You have shown and proven to me that I am nothing without You, You are my source of source. To walk without You and Your counsel is like walking with my eyes closed; I feel to walk with You will be like running with my eyes closed. While I know I have much, much to learn and understand about how to let Your will flow through me to the point that there is no doubt, hesitation or worry, just faith, hope and love. I know You are there and I seek to practice Your presence more and more, until I am one with You, as You are one with me, and as You, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are one. I have a lot to reconcile under the sun and there is much work to do and things to be taken care of, oneness with Your presence is what I will need to complete that which is before me. In Jesus name I ask You to help and bless me and mine, enlarge our territory, while keeping us from evil, and from causing pain. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
6 For it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 11 For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day. 17 For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
Psalm 59:2, 10, 17-18
Psalm 59:2, 10, 17-18
2 deliver me from those who work evil, and save me from bloodthirsty men. 10 My God in his steadfast love will meet me; my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies. 17 O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee, for thou, O God, art my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.
Matthew 16:24-27
Matthew 16:24-27
Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:
The Art of Presence By: Eckhart Tolle In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.
The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Unabridged) By: Norman Doidge The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries.
The Shack Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!
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