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come and listen: ready or not : 2014
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Friday, January 10, 2014. Ready or not : 2014. 2014 means door,. I was graced with an answer to the question bouncing around in my mind for weeks after a conversation with my dear friend and co-worker. What is the theme of this next year? This specific Sunday, when my word was divinely delivered, we were having a Christmas party, reflecting on last year and sharing our themes from 2013. My first thought was struggle. In conflict. [ That's huge, y'all ]. I have connectedness (strengthsfinder - yeah! And I...
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come and listen: November 2012
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Monday, November 19, 2012. Tell me a story. This God made us all in our diversity from one original person, allowing each culture to have its own time to develop, giving each its own place to live and thrive in its distinct ways. His purpose in all this was that people of every culture and religion would search for this ultimate God - grope for him in the darkness, as it were - hoping to find Him. Yet in truth, God is not far from any of us. We told her a story, while she listened and recorded them.
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come and listen: December 2013
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013. A hundred years ago I was a pastor and read stuff like that,. And I have felt for two days that a very special human to human conversation was missed - the exact conversation I long to engage in with people I meet for the first time. Every story is meaningful. Every story is gold. And sometimes, our stories are a burden that can only be lifted by a listening ear. I can't hold the whole world,. But I can hold your story. I would be honored if you held mine, too.
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come and listen: February 2013
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Our every breath is a surrender to His sovereignty. It's always fear that brings tension-. The tension that brings the pain. And then it's the pain that makes us think we can't go on . So when the world contracts tight. Breathe deep and let it all come. With no fear, no fear. You're a bag of sand, and there's a hole in your toe, and the sand just keeps trickling out. Just let everything that comes on, trickle on through. Just breathe and let go.'. How does one do this? What d...
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come and listen: September 2014
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Thursday, September 25, 2014. This one's for me. The breeze is orchestrating a complicated ballet. The dance is on.". The leaves swirl and crackle. Spinning up and circling 'round, like shaping some invisible structure outside my window. The winds of fall. The circling of earth and seasons. My heart is softened in the midst of change. I'm often surprised how much lasts through these changes. Like the old lamp to my left,. Like the rings on my finger. The past is sometimes more present than we think.
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come and listen: December 2012
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Saturday, December 22, 2012. Why don't you think of God as the one who is coming,. Who has been approaching from all eternity ? When a heart breaks . does your heart break? The words bounce from the hardwood floor I'm crumpled upon to my ears and down deep into my soul. Can you hear your people, Lord? Does Your heart . break? I mouth these lyrics through my sobs, and stare at my open hands sitting heavy on my lap - my eyes catching on the band wrapped around my finger. How did I get here? I am searching ...
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come and listen: June 2013
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Thursday, June 20, 2013. I would do anything sometimes for a piece of land big enough where no one else on the earth could hear what sounds want to come rushing from me. I would go out to that land and yell my lungs out against whatever sky happened to be hung in the atmosphere that day. Seriously, that's what my prayers look like sometimes - like someone has lost their freakin' mind.". Yes friend. Yes. Just like I've lost my freaking mind. Or maybe it's better if they do? Candice Mae Lyerla Jones,.
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come and listen: August 2014
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Indeed, in every life there is some wound that continues to weep secretly, even after years of attempted healing.". How do I explain my sadness? It was here, in the swimming (or drowning) and the tears, where I heard a new voice. A voice that seemed to flow from a place where pain was understood, not cured. And where questions meet questions,. Remember when you read about being beauty-full. How you can absorb all of these miracles into your being. And let them fill you?
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come and listen: September 2013
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013. To begin, begin.". Oh I'm gettin' kinda rich. On the sight of any soul. It's safe to say that this all started a few months ago when I received an email from a blogger whom I respect so much, Elora. To begin, begin. I know what I need to do. I am choosing to let my creative self go free. I am beginning. Because I want to unfold, be vulnerable, be authentic. Because I want to know beauty and feel empowered to offer it from my own depths. Because I am pursuing my gifts. Is re...
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Conspiracy of Hope: January 2014
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Friday, January 3, 2014. Child Pornography and Human Trafficking in the News. Click the bold heading to be taken to the full articles. John Bidmead (above), 65, was caught red handed by police. As he watched a child sex abuse movie on a 50-inch television, when they knocked on his front door with a warrant to arrest him. They found him in possession of one million child porn images including 24,000 images of adults violating children. Stewart Matthew Kidwell (above), 36, of Blanchester, Ohio. On three co...
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