plenty of cracks

well,……………….Lord there are plenty of cracks in me where Your light and grace can shine through, perhaps i can be a prism of the many colors of You……………..and by my brokeness perhaps others can see that a life filled with You is a better life than filled with me. thank-you

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hope

if the time i spend connecting to God, my friend……..produced no results……….i would stop and look for another source to fill that spot in me……..that my soul reminds needs nurturing……………….but i get what i need when i simply reach out…. acknowledging a Power Greater than myself…………..my companion and confidant……….God……………..good to know someone who has power,…

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put it in park

i chose a nice sunny spot………i had about 30 minutes according to the clock……………thought it would be good to meditate and stop……so i put it in park…………….i could still hear cars passing by…. but i closed my eyes and thought about the sky………………the sun filtered through the window and warmed the inside………….i quieted myself and…

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the path

i cannot see the path………me thinks it is near……i will expectantly wait for the clearing to appear………..my concrete connection to the God i serve, is making a way for me, i feel it in my bones……………i am not thinking how it should be or the signs along the way……..my past experience has shown He works…

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time out

”time out” from the world i know…….to pause and reflect on what i know and what is working and what needs to go………….i place myself in ”time out”…………hard for me to get a good read when i am trying to satisfy others needs………if i am giving too much…..or am i giving enough……….i place myself in…

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fishing in the dark

i chuckle when this image was in my head, about how You lead me and how i am spiritually fed and i liken the absence of You,….. like me fishing in the dark…….. i smell the water and know it’s near, then i trip and fall and lose my gear…….i manage to fine the tackle…

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slow leak

maybe this is a good analogy, maybe not……………when we are born we get our training wheels and they take us to our first tires, as we grow we get bigger and better tires to keep us going, and finally when we reach a certain place in our life……….we graduate to all season steel belted radials…………….top…

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assassin

there is an assassin waiting behind that tree, hmm……he sort of looks like me………..as i go about the activities of the day, i sometimes feel he is aiming at me……………waiting for the time when he isn’t blocked, no one is in the way and he has a clear shot…………sometimes it hard to focus on what’s…

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the only failure is not to try

how many good things have happened in your life not because your were successful, but because you were willing to try…………………….. i can think of many personally………………i set my sights perhaps a little too high or unrealistically and for whatever reasons settled for better than i was…………..because i was willing to try……………………. a fable suggests…

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it may take awhile

sometimes it is better to admit it may take awhile…………………………it may take awhile doesn’t take me off the hook,………………it means i know this is something i need to do, and i am willing to work towards……………..but old habits die hard……………….breaking the habit of repetitive response can only be broken with repetition of better actions,……………far easier…

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