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The Power to Choose

Posted on November 30, 2021 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Morning, God! On Sunday, I was going into Kokua Market when I was stopped by this glorious pile of dead blossoms. I LOVE these colors! In fact, I love COLOR. So, I took a photo. The young man that…

Tagged with: advice from a resident of Auschwitz concentration camp, The Power to Choose, The Power to help myself
Posted in accepting my need for help, asking for help for myself, choices, choosing HARD, Choosing Meaning, Choosing to respond, connecting, Help me to see, Helpful Hards, hope, Hope as a gift from God, Humility or Needing Help!, the essential nature of hope

Free Webinar on Mental Health from HIM July 23-25

Posted on July 16, 2020 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

FREE WEBINAR WILL ADDRESS MENTAL HEALTH DURING COVID Hawaiian Islands Ministries’ Mental Health webinar, July 23, 24, and 25, will offer help for the continuing emotional and mental impact of COVID-19 on our families and community. The 3-day webinar will…

Posted in accepting my need for help, asking for help for myself, healing, health, Help me to see, Humility or Needing Help!

Compassion for My Human Condition

Posted on May 29, 2020 by a moment with god — 1 Comment

Good Evening God, Having my false self stripped away . . . layer by layer . . . has given me a semi joyful acceptance of my True Self. I am thankful to be me — but I am aware…

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Posted in a hand up, Abundant Life, accepting my need for help, acknowledging my need for prayer, Centering Prayer, Cherishing our Bodies, comfort, Compassion, compassion to care for myself, complexity, connecting, Energy, Forgiven!, Forgiving, God wants to nourishes us, gratitude, growing toward up, Help me to see, Humility or Needing Help!, layer upon layer, letting the Holy Spirit flow through us, LOVE

Rebuilding Lives!

Posted on January 13, 2019 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Evening, God! Sometimes, I hear something so clearly analyzed and thought out that it takes my breath away! That’s how I responded to Jan Rader’s TED talk on “In the opioid crisis, here’s what it take to save a…

Tagged with: first responders, Huntington West Virginia, Jan Rader, opioid crisis, self-care
Posted in connecting, developing helpful definitions of love, Help me to see, kindness, listening, Rethinking, stopping to listen, Thinking and Feeling

Queen Keopuolani

Posted on November 17, 2018 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

A portrait of Queen Keōpūolani done in 1816 by Louis Choris Good Evening, God! Today, for the first time I heard the story of how you used Queen Keōpūolani in 1819 to break with the Kapu system – the old religion…

Tagged with: A Pivotal Person, Queen Keopuolani, The end of the Kapu System, The welcoming of the missionaries to Hawaii
Posted in God's Provision, Help me to see, power and peace and gentleness

It’s hard to be a human nowadays

Posted on April 30, 2017 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Evening, God! I laughed out loud when I read this Dilbert comic this morning. A rueful laugh of recognition! We humans are barely able to maintain Continuous Intermittent Attention — let alone real focus. Except, of course, on video…

Tagged with: AI, algorithms, Google Maps, Robots
Posted in accepting my need for help, adjusting, Artificial Intelligence, Changing, Choosing to respond, complexity, connecting, Future, Help me to see, Perspective

The Importance of Prayer

Posted on January 20, 2017 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.”…

Posted in a prayer for healing, accepting my need for help, asking for help for myself, connecting, Heal Us Now, healing, Help me to see, Prayer, praying, Praying for our enemies

The Comfortable and the Homeless

Posted on August 12, 2015 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Hmm. Isn’t that a definition of leprosy? Peripheral nerves that are not able to feel our nose and toes — and fingers, even? And if we cannot feel them — then we cannot protect or care for them.

Tagged with: blindness, cultural leprosy, deafness, extremities, feeling, healing, hearing with our hearts, helping, homelessness, Numbness
Posted in a series of molts and upgrades, acknowledging another's existence, being heard into speaking, Belonging to each other, Compassion, connecting, Help me to see, hope

The Open Doors of 2015

Posted on January 4, 2015 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Dr. Dweck stresses the importance of Hard Work in mastery as opposed to resting on Fixed Intelligence. I loved the IDEA of Hard Work. I just haven’t applied it to my every day life.