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Advent 2020 – Day 20 Humility
Post Views = 789HUMILITY. Releasing one’s hold on self and ego and pride. Meekness. Finding an inner fortitude of resiliency and vulnerability and buoyancy. These are difficult words. We want to assert ourselves. We want our own way. We want to do things that make us look good. How humiliating was it for Jesus to…
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Advent 2020 – Day 19 A Christmas Poem
Post Views = 1045AMAZING PEACE: A Christmas Poemby Maya Angelou Thunder rumbles in the mountain passesAnd lightning rattles the eaves of our houses.Flood waters await us in our avenues. Snow falls upon snow, falls upon snow to avalancheOver unprotected villages.The sky slips low and grey and threatening. We question ourselves.What have we done to so…
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Advent 2020 – Day 18 Blessing
Post Views = 812BLESSING means favor or approval. We normally think that God is giving us blessings when we are safe, secure, surrounded by good time and good friends, financially well-off with a big house and expensive car, and everything is going well in our lives. That’s when we are blessed! This is not, however, what is often stated…
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Advent 2020 – Day 17 Inspiration
Post Views = 585Look up! What moves you? What motivates you? What sparks your spirit? What stirs your soul? Where do you receive your will to live each day? What awakens you to act or create or respond? Today’s word is INSPIRATION. Where do I get inspiration? Am I being inspired or am I being discouraged by disheartening words and difficult…
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Advent 2020 – Day 16 Service
Post Views = 774The word SERVICE (today’s word) is overused. You take your car in to get serviced. We talk about the kind of service we get at a restaurant. We call our church gatherings worship services. Jesus talks about service quite a bit in the gospels. What does he mean by it? He came to…