Laura Story - Blessings

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Blessings

Song by Laura Story

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity

We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt your goodness, we doubt your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not our home

What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy
What if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise

By Yuan Mei
(1716 - 1798)

English version by J. P. Seaton

 

I burned incense, swept the earth, and waited
                              for a poem to come...

Then I laughed, and climbed the mountain,
                              leaning on my staff.

How I'd love to be a master
                              of the blue sky's art:

see how many sprigs of snow-white cloud
                              he's brushed in so far today.‎

I believe I am a child of god As I believe his love knows no bounds and that love pours thru me through me‎ it's the love that drives all love for others As I an washing in this love, baptised in it each new morning I am not defined by my erratic behaviors, by the humanness that waves an flag to come and see, for if u can not see, it's not me but christ to open ur eyes, and my love to stay beside u when the veil is raised... Oh I am not defined by my erratic behaviors but by something so much deeper, infinitely strong ‎ and constant. I am a new creature. When I find myself risking to trust this way of seeing the power of the lie begins to vanish And I must remind myself, my authentic self, all the time forward- when I need to embellish it's because I am not feeling received for who I am. And my increasing confidence in who I really am becomes the bedrock to break my fears, shame, losses so I get to live free for the rest of my life. We matter, every single one of us matter and the choices we make matter. The choices to forgive, to be kind, to be authentic to open to our inside world's, to tell our secrets, will change the relationship I will share, by what I give For we are all the one, who he left the 99 to find. And I am found in christ love- ‎ Amen‎ ‎

"God collects our tears

And the tears are the tangible essence of‎

Broken hearts. And the beauty of collected tear is that it means that my sorrows actually mean something and it's just a way that redemption happens even from the places that are most shattered"‎

Bless me with the gift of healing

Fill my heart always with the desire to love

And may I be directed to that love which is the greatest mamma, the everlasting drink of life. The heart that is for the glory of god.

Lord bless me with peace and iopen to receive this heart of healing more deeply, more fully and include in those blessings and gifts a fullness of ur peace so I may know no more... seek no more.... be no more...but ur servant in healing, in loving, in christ I pray, amen

Colossianss 4.2

For everything give thanks for this is my will for you

And while I'm in this world I am seeking man to harness the energy of god within me and when I am in the world of my heart, when I am living heaven on earth I am all love whose energy is fed by the light of god and it is christ alone who can share in the heart of god. 

Holy spirit you are welcomed here

I pray that the lonely, the sick, the struggling in prayer this moment join with me and let my outreach of giving up all humble the spirit to raise urs into the light this day.

Amen

What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life — daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks it constantly sets for each individual. 

Viktor Frankl

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.  And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts

through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.”

Romans 5:12-5

“Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Prayer

  Awesome God, thank You for giving us the ability to give love and to receive love.  Thank You for placing people

in our lives that love us like You do; unconditionally. 

Amen

Becoming sky & earth

By Manikkavacakar
(9th Century)

 

Becoming sky & earth
Wind & light
Becoming flesh & spirit
All that truly is
& all that which is not
Becoming the Lord,
He makes those who say,
"I" & "mine"
Dance in the show
Becoming sky
& standing there...
How can my words
praise Him?

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. 

One is unable to notice something — because it is always before one’s eyes. 

The real foundations of this inquiry do not strike a person at all. — And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful. 

Wittgenstein

Grafted onto christ 

It all becomes sin

As it moves from the heart

Into desire....

Lord bless my soul to travel only to the heart of giving, put infront of me those who need love, unconditional love, wash away my inequities, ‎ and burn away my desires.

All stories, all tales, all that I reach for that is not you can not be for my greatest good.

Direct my hand

Lift me up

And today, let me shine light on my brothers-

In ur name I pray

Amen

https://play.buddhify.com/share/meditation/kind/



Lovely guided medication on love and kindness. Thank u BB

Quiet candle flickers

Wind whisks inside the. Window shut tight

Oh the cool air finds its way

And so do the thoughts-

Why are they the same.

If I thought them already why are they here again

A ceremoby

A release

A goodbye to those thoughts

I release them to you christ who 

Has only the power to wash away the

Iniquities and fill my space, my thoughts

With that of only giving.

I was righted- I was saved

From all that those thoughts speak of

I release the old to make room for the new

Which is so much more beautiful and open and exactly right for a future experience.

Amen

If there were no thoughts there would ne

No practice

In a similar  sense ‎if there was no life we wouldn't be living

And here we are, this moment, is the same

Can we not say it includes it all, doesn't it always,

So I wake, and I experience these thoughts and I remember the practice

For can we not say the practice always includes a distraction, disturbance, excitement, lust, suffering, desire, rejection, lack or shame.

Oh to be alive, given this walk in light, given this breathe I take upon me, 

And I choose.... grateful. 

I choose grateful for the experiences I have caught, and some I missed and splattered all over me, 

And some of those splatters have been large and messy and some left a stain or a stentch‎

And I am grateful

And here I sit

‎

I reach deep into my practice 

I'm grateful to enter silence to make way for the light- to know, this day, as all others, are full of light and hope and life and being...

And I'm washed clean of stain, stench, rejection, and loss..... in christ who I truly belong to.

Oh, our god is a jealous god... ‎ or maybe he's just leading me towards a god love with someone who is there ahead of me....

Let it be so....

Amen

“His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones.  I am weary of holding it in; 

indeed I cannot.”

 Jeremiah 20:9

Prayer

Sovereign Lord, Jeremiah tried to keep Your word to himself but he found that it was like a happy mother-to-be trying to keep her pregnancy a secret.  Lord, give us a desire like Jeremiah to proclaim the love u have placed in my heart... give us the courage to share it with others, regardless of the results

I am love

I'm pure joy my heart sings and while it yearns

It also yearns to be received

I am love

Love flowering, shining,. Feelings, growing, learning.... and learning some more...‎

‎

I am empathy, opening to the world

To another, I create light in my smile

I care ever too deeply.i feel, I cry, I touch,

 And can be touched.‎

I am love and I am in the heart of god

Where I exist and pray that my offering of ove in from a holy place

A sacred place

‎

Let it be so..‎

And let it also be so that I can see here in the heart of love and I can see, that my eyes be opened,  who is here with me. 

Let it be so.... ‎

Let it be so

Kmg2017

ur destined for greatness,and the path to greatness includes struggle, sacrifice, hard work, and joyful pain.... travelling thru "the awful grace of God (escalis)"

Say This: "Father, I thank You for the Holy Spirit and the way He shows me things to come. Lord, I ask You to show me whatever You want me to know regarding 2018 and beyond. I ask You to give me ears to hear, eyes to see and the wisdom I need to recognize and follow the Spirit's leading as He tells me the things I need to know about my future. In Jesus' Name. Amen."

God god god
Energetically connected
As coincidence
Cause that's a word we can connect with
Almist tangibly when  all it can be is u

When all it is is u

God god god
Use that energetic power of coincidenc
To align with my prayers
Which are to be in ur light
So I can better serve

To be in your love
So my. Ego heart feels loved

To bask inb ur glory and hold jesus'
Broken body of sufferings in my emotion and less of the feelings of my own

Lord I bow to the grace of this prayer coming thru this morning

Amen

To my son about takin away his girlfriend from all the breaks from her parents and spending the time with him -




And if her parents are like me- we love u even more when ur happy- cause u share that happiness in all ur share with us- I love u XXX  and I love u can expand ur heart-- with emotions and have room in it for more..another.. and the compassion to consider another parents feelings. It clearly speaks how u weigh in on mine


. rumi says loving is in eachoth all along-

mom

Kurt vonnegut


"We have to contunually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down "