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Blessing myself — a new frontier

Good Evening, God! Today I began the “assignment” to BLESS myself. I started with blessing You and that helped me to better understand blessing.  Before, I didn’t even know that I didn’t understand what blessing was and involved.   Now I am

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More on Blessing

Good Evening, God! I’m back after doing a few minutes of Blessing You “with all that is within me.” (Psalm 103:1) And I realize that blessing You is putting Everything in Perspective. That enlarged perspective is having a funny effect on me. The small

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A New Look at Blessing

Good Evening, God! Look what I stumbled upon! This Thanksgiving holiday I took it into my head to review, sort and donate some of my books. I have a lot of books. It took me all day to empty four

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The blessings of being Tattered

Good Day, God! I hadn’t ever thought of being a bit “tattered” as being a blessing. But, yesterday sitting outside in the backyard of my Spiritual Director’s Makiki Heights home I glanced over at her clothesline and saw varied colored

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The Power of Blessing

Actually, just speaking words out loud is powerful. The spoken word HAS power! Even little muttered phrases have power. Negative thoughts are harmful. Negative words are worse. How much better it is to speak forth Your Hope and Promises, God!

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Posted in a prayer for healing, Blessing, Books, connecting, hope, humility, Praise, Prayer

Create in me a Clean Heart

DANG! I guess, God, YOU have brought me back to Personal Responsibility. It is so HARD to bless folks who seem bent on destroying. How much easier to judge and hate. But what a quickly Descending helix that begets.

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Posted in asking for help for myself, Blessing, Choosing to respond, courage to see myself, Digesting as processing

St Francis, the Animals and Us

Maybe most churches don’t make it CLEAR that YOU want to BLESS ALL of US — Humans as well as Animals.

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Posted in Belonging to each other, Blessing, connecting, Expand my Heart, Humility or Needing Help!

A Heart Filled with Joy!

at the end of her talk she told the Prayer Team members present in her session to stand up and then go and bless the people around us. Wow!

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BLESS! BLESS!

Good Morning, God! Last night I heard my husband, Kit, calling me, “COME! COME! COME!” I thought there was some sort of disaster — but then heard him say SUNSET! So, it was back up the stairs for my iPhone.

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Mr. Wonderful’s Birthday

Good Morning, God! First — I want to ask You for a BLESSING on Kit on his birthday, today. No. 77. Actually, I asked You last night . . . I’m just “reminding” You now. Yes, God, I know that

Posted in a prayer for healing, Blessing, choosing HARD, Choosing to respond

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Brené Brown

chatting and sometimes, listening

Rachel Naomi Remen

chatting and sometimes, listening

A Moment with God

chatting and sometimes, listening

Sacred Dance Guild Journal

Since 1958 articles by members & guests offer news about activities, history, Sacred Dance practices, profiles of Sacred Dancers, choreography, images & illustrations.

Victoria Paulsen

How to Step In -- Substitute Teaching