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God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. Vance Havner Meditation: Sometimes life leavesContinue reading “Our Brokenness – God’s Beginning…”

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were. Richard Bach Meditation: When we love somebody, we do not love them the same all the time. Sometimes we try to, but it does not work. Love changes over time, and sometimes love requires us toContinue reading “If You Love Someone, Set Them Free…”

May I accept that dying is part of life.   May I not hold on too tightly to the past, when the past needs to be set free. May I listen to my inner truth and face those difficult existential questions, however anxious I might become in doing so. May the Spirit of Love, of StrengthContinue reading “Prayer at the Beginning of 2018”

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. Arthur Schopenhauer Meditation: My dear childhood friend died at the end of 2017. She was surrounded by family and friends. I did not know much other than that she was in intensive care. However, about two hours after she had diedContinue reading “Death and Resurrection…”

Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come. Melody Beattie Meditation: My daughter created a poster board yesterday displaying images andContinue reading “Make New Year’s Goals…”

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something. Neil Gaiman Meditation: A strange wish forContinue reading “I Hope You Make Mistakes…”

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been . Rainer Maria Rilke Meditation: Many think that God never changes. And that theological statement has valid truth in it. Others believe that God walks alongside us. Those probably prefer God as we have witnessed in his son Jesus. And thenContinue reading “God Reaching Out To Us From The Future…”

All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives. Steven Spielberg Meditation: If it is true that we are changing some each year, how have you and I changed this past year? Have we grown and thrived, or has it been a rough yearContinue reading “Every Year We Are A Different Person…”

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Robert H. Schuller Meditation: The time in between the years often calls for reflectionContinue reading “Wait With Making Life Decisions…”

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing – just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? Ralph Marston Meditation: The time “in between the years” is one ofContinue reading “Be Still and Know…”