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"Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand; .Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good,

July 19, 2008

When: Saturday, July 19, 2008 12:00 AM to Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, how to destroy him.  Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all, and ordered them not to make him known.  This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles. He will not wrangle or cry aloud, nor will any one hear his voice in the streets; he will not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick, till he brings justice to victory; and in his name will the Gentiles hope." 
But when the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by Be-el’zebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons."  Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand; and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?  And if I cast out demons by Be-el’zebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.  But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.  And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.  "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.  You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.  The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. 
Matthew 12:14-21, 24-28, 31-35
 
I will go up to the foot of the Cross; I will press my arms tightly around the cold body, the corpse of Christ, with the fire of my love…..I will unail it, with my reparation and mortifications….I will wrap it in the new winding-sheet of my clean life, and I will bury it in the clean rock of my breast, where no one can tear it away from me, and there, Lord, take your rest! Were the whole world to abandon you…serviam! I will serve you Lord.
— St. Josemaria Escriva
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful for all Your blessings, for Your Words that provide insight into Your truths and secrets; so deep, so complicated and so perplexing, yet so simple. Is it my nature that complicates and is perplexed making it hard for me to do what is simple and the nature of my true source, or is it simply Your purpose and part of the process of repentance and purification to challenge me to keep seeking that true source until my nature is replace by my that source. I know that it is through Jesus and His teachings in the Spirit that I will find the answer or what I need to keep seeking for then in seeking I will do Your will and with each reading, prayer, thought and moment find Your light within me growing brighter to more clearly light my path and shine from within me to be visible by others, most of all my love ones so we will be united with You through Jesus in the Spirit for eternity. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
 
Micah 2:1-5
Psalm 10:1-4, 7-8, 14
Matthew 12:14-21
 
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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‘Faith is the acceptance of a truth based on the authority of God’s revelation, as manifested in the Church and in Scripture’; Jesus Christ and Your words has spoken through the Prophets and Saints.

July 18, 2008

When: Friday, July 18, 2008 12:00 AM to Saturday, July 19, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath."  He said to them, "Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?  Or have you not read in the law how on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. And if you had known what this means, `I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath."

Matthew 12: 1 – 8 
 
Faith is not a wish to believe or a will to believe something contrary to reason. Faith is not living as if something were true. Faith is the acceptance of a truth based on the authority of God’s revelation, as manifested in the Church and in Scripture.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful for Your blessings and presence I ask Your special guidance over these next few days. Liken my heart to that of Jesus and let my thoughts, words and actions be guided by what is best for others first, according to Your will. Help me to die to myself, my hurts, my pains and my pride so that I will be free to give what I receive only from You through Jesus in the Spirit, unconditional love, understanding and forgiveness. Today’s readings speak to me in terms of walking righteously, power of prayer, the reality of our passing from under the sun, but most of all Jesus speaks to me in His words and through the words of Bishop Sheen. For in Jesus presence we are called and expected to be greater to rise above the ways under the sun which is the source of our human nature to become filled with His Spirit who through Jesus who is one with You we can become one with You if only for moments. For in these moments we find our salt and shine brightest for You Lord. After all You are our source and no one can deny that everyone seeks their higher source because they know the source under the sun cannot be all there is, everyone knows there has to be more; but can we accept that which is before us, ‘Faith is the acceptance of a truth based on the authority of God’s revelation, as manifested in the Church and in Scripture’; Jesus Christ and Your words has spoken through the Prophets and Saints. For it is a living words which speaks to us each individually, and while we are unit through the Spirit in Jesus with You, You work differently and reveal Your truths according to our own unique needs according to You will and purpose for us under the sun. Always preparing and having us practice that which we will need and us when we pass on to You for eternity. So knowing I cannot change yesterday, nor control tomorrow, I take my roles under the sun most seriously and look to You for guidance as I begin my walk today. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.     
 
Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8
(Ps) Isaiah 38:10-12, 16
Matthew 12:1-8
 
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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All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

July 17, 2008

When: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:00 AM to Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will. All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Matthew 11: 25 – 27  
 
Take caution to see priests only as the dispensers of the Blood of the humble, Immaculate Lamb and overlook the faults you may see in them. A priest is a man and therefore fallible and capable of making mistakes, but this does not prevent him from being the Annointed of the Lord, marked forever with the indelible sign and having the power to consecrate the Body of Christ and administer the sacraments and to preach to the people in the name of God.
— St. Catherine of Siena
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, who art in heaven hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, and deliver us from evil, for Yours is the power and the glory forever and ever. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
 
Isaiah 10:5-7, 13-16
Psalm 94:5-10, 14-15
Matthew 11:25-27
 
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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It is possible to contemplate God not only outside us and within us but also above us: outside, through vestiges of Him; within, through His image; and above, through the light that shines upon our mind.

July 15, 2008

When: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:00 AM to Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
"You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men. "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. "Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.  Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5: 13 – 19
 
It is possible to contemplate God not only outside us and within us but also above us: outside, through vestiges of Him; within, through His image; and above, through the light that shines upon our mind.
— St. Bonaventure
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful, humbled and aware of Your presence I pray that my legacy would be that which St. Paul writes about in today’s reading from Corinthians. 

6  Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 
7  But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.
8  None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 
9  But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him," 
10  God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 
11  For what person knows a man’s thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 
12  Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. 
13  And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.
You know my heart, you know me inside out and outside in, You know the number of my hairs; grant me that wisdom that is appropriate for me or at least that wisdom You know I will use wisely for You, and let that be my gift, my heritance, my legacy for me and mine. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen. 
 
 
1 Corinthians 2:6-13
Psalm 16:5-9, 11
5 The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; thou holdest my lot. 6 The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. 7 I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. 8 I keep the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body also dwells secure. 11 Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fullness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore
Matthew 5:13-19
 
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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"Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

July 15, 2008

When: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:00 AM to Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s foes will be those of his own household. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. "He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward, and he who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. And whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he shall not lose his reward." And when Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities. 

Matthew 10: 34 – 42, 11: 1
 
It is not the actual physical exertion that counts toward a man’s progress, nor the nature of the task, but the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken.
— St. Francis Xavier
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful I come to You, humbled by myself, I seek to follow the words of the Psalmist by finding and ‘bringing thanksgiving as my sacrifice to honor You’; hoping and praying that by ‘ordering my way aright‘ ‘You will show Your salvation to me and mine!‘For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! The in name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
 
Isaiah 1:10-17
Psalm 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23
Matthew 10:34 — 11:1
 
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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"… He who has ears, let him hear."

July 13, 2008

When: Sunday, July 13, 2008 12:00 AM to Monday, July 14, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
 
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the beach.  And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow.  And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had not much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched; and since they had no root they withered away. Other seeds fell upon thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear."

Matthew 13: 1 – 23
 
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
 
Abba, Father, Lord God, thank You for blessing me so and for the gift of feeling; feeling for You, even if they do not yet hear You. For I do want to hear You, and I do wake each day to listen for Your Words, always asking and always praying that through Jesus who in the Spirit lives within me I will keep feeling my ear for You, and keep the faith to keep listening and hoping that someday I will truly hear You. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
 
Isaiah 55:10-11
Psalm 65:10-14
Romans 8:18-23
Matthew 13:1-23  or 13:1-9
 
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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"If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

July 10, 2008

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.
 
2 Corinthians 4:6-11, 16, 17
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
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
 
 
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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