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01/05/2025

Reality of Truth – Christmas 2
John 1:1 – 18 – January 5th, 2025

The Lord Be With You.

A parable …
There once was a young pony who had heard stories of the mythical one horned horse so he decided that he wanted to be one too. He would walk around all day and night with a horn that he found in the field stuck with tree sap to the middle of his head. This went on and on. Finally one day, this young pony ran across a caterpillar and began to trade stories of what they both wanted to be after they grew up. After many months, the caterpillar had to say good bye because it was going into its cocoon but he promised that he would return. Each day the caterpillar was in its cocoon, the little pony would come by to check on it. After many weeks, the caterpillar emerged from that cocoon as a butterfly. The pony, never having experienced this, was quite surprised at the change. This gave the pony hope that he too could one day become that mythical one horned horse he wanted to be. But the now butterfly told the young pony that he couldn’t ever be that desired horse because the reality of the truth was that the pony’s future was something else. The young pony was heartbroken and went away very sad. Years later, the two met up with each other. The butterfly was still the same butterfly but the little pony had grown up to be a regal stallion. The now stallion told the butterfly that once he had let go of that false truth of who he wanted to be and accepted what his destiny was to be, he became the real truth to that very destiny. The butterfly said that the reality of truth always has a way of gaining and overcoming our futures.
Here ends the parable.

There was a TV show on, awhile back, called Dragnet where Sargent Joe Friday will always be remembered from the saying, “Just the facts ma’am just the facts.” Our Gospel, this morning says the same thing but in a much more hidden way that’s deeper than what’s actually written. It goes to the very heart of what this whole Gospel is all about. The core in the belief that the story of Jesus is not a story about Jesus but about God and that relationship that He has created and affirmed by this very gift of Jesus to us. I have titled my message, this morning as, “The Reality of Truth.”

Some time ago, I read about the history of medicine. I realized that the very world you and I live in, our existence, just keeps turning in circles. The history I read goes like this …
"Doctor, I have an ear ache."
2000 BC - "Here, eat this root."
1000 BC - "That root is heathen, say this prayer."
1850 AD - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."
1940 AD - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."
1985 AD - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."
2000 AD - "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root!"

Now, we all think we know what the truth is. I mean we can look at something or hear something and just know if it’s true or not. Or can we? Can we trust what’s right in front of our eyes? Can we trust even the simplest sounds of what someone says to us? Can we know these things as the real, unmitigated truth? Maybe, or maybe not. It all depends on so many factors.

Where and how you were raised. Did you come from overseas or from the south or from the north? Were you raised in a two parent household? Did you experience personality altering pain when you were 5 or 8 or even 12? So many aspects that shape our truth. Is our glass half empty or half full?

The bible gets treated that same way. Theologians throughout the ages have taken apart the writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as well as the rest of what we call the New Testament and many have come to different conclusions as to the origins, the meanings, of the truth. I may have said this before but, when I made application to attend seminary, I was given a passage that I had to comment on. Well, I knew so much, I had my King James Study bible that I had read a lot of and what was written in the passage to be commented on contradicted what I read in my own bible.

Now, I was not kind to the author of that passage, which was one of the professors at the seminary by the way, and I laid into him with logic and a little condescension. I thought I knew it all. I remember that the response I got back on that comment was something like, “I fail to see how seminary will do you any good.” I thought, wow. But they let me in anyways. I never did take any classes from that professor and I avoided him like the plague because I later found out that this guy could run rings around me theologically, logically, spiritually and just about any other way possible.

I had taken my truth and made my glass half empty. I had become stuck like the young pony wanting to be something I was not. But the truth is still the truth and some things, some things just need to be taken and accepted without all that introspection. Without all that doubt. Without all that back and forth.

The Greek version of this line goes – En archo on to logos, kai to logos hen pros, ton theon, kai theos hen ho logos. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Pretty simple stuff right? Is your glass half full or half empty?

You see, John thought that a simple mathematical compilation was all that was needed. The Word was God. The Word became flesh. God became flesh. You get Jesus. Simple as that right? The word “Word” as it is applied Christologically, about Christ that is, is with a capital W and is only used here and only here in all of John’s Gospel. Only 4 times. It was important for John to go ahead and get it out there for all the readers to hear and read. It’s good that we can read that too because it lays the very foundation for what comes next. What you and I want to believe – next.

You see, if you can’t accept the truth of all that is Jesus then you can’t accept the truth of the Word. And if you can’t accept the truth about the Word, well, then you can’t accept the truth about God. It’s really as simple as that. Logical right? But, what is truth? Is it something that you and me can agree on cause it feels right. Feels good?

Some would say that that’s not the truth, just cause it feels good, and they’ve written about it. Others would declare that we gotta be accepting of all that humans have decided doesn’t cause us discomfort or make us feel bad. There’s even a bible in use today because some, in this world, just can’t accept the male version of God. Really. Some, in other denominations and even in some sects of Lutheranism have removed all references to God, the Father and substituted the words, eternal spirit, earth-maker etc. for Our Father for the Lord’s prayer. There’s even a “The Bible for Dummies”. Man, it seems that none of us can agree to even the littlest of things much less the bigger picture.

But imagine for a moment that you got transported back 2000 years ago to the 1st century. You didn’t have all the writings we have today. You only had what we refer to as the Old Testament but the people of that time would have referred to it as scripture. Remember, when Paul’s referring to scripture, he’s only referring to the Old Testament. The new had not been put together by then. Imagine, then, you come across the writings of this John guy and all the things he’s putting down on parchment, or sheepskin, were brand new. Were foreign to you. You may have only had a glimpse of this Jesus guy. You certainly heard of Him. Then you go back and the Jesus followers are sitting there talking about all the things they’ve seen. How this Jesus guy walked around healing people of things that you just knew weren’t possible. Then the writings of John keep coming back.

You want to believe but every fiber in your body is telling you to run for the hills. Run for your life. You know? Right here, in this place, in this time, we have it so easy. We’re not put to death. We’re not persecuted. We’re not disowned by our families. But in other parts of the world today, they don’t have it so easy. And back then, well, back then not only could you be put to death in the most painful and horrendous manner possible but your own family would probably disown you and you’d be out on the streets. But you stay and listen some more. And you listen some more.

You sit around that camp fire and you begin to put two and two together and the result that gets added up is that all the things your hearing begin to ring true. Like the butterfly in our parable, you begin to see yourself as the gift that Jesus came to tell you that you were. A child of this unattainable God. A person that matters because God created you.

None of your teachers in your Jewish community had ever spoken that way because they were all about those 300 plus rules that they created out of the original 10. Theirs is a glass that’s half empty because it’s a glass restricted by some desire to earn their way into one of the 7 layers of heaven.

But you hear the words that are being spoken and putting that together with the sights that you’ve seen yourself, the time that the apostles spoke to all those people that came from all over the country and each one of those people could understand what they were saying. You finally realize that your glass is not only half full but full all the way to the top. And its full of the promise that reaches so deep within you that you just can’t begin to absorb it all. Its full of the words of the Christ that is the Word of God Himself.

And the Baptist. John the Baptist, the one that came before the Word walking among us and proclaimed that the Word, this Jesus guy, the Word made His dwelling among us. To live among us. To eat with us. To sleep with us. To laugh and, yes, cry with us. To help us to reach down and find the reality of the truth that’s always with us if only we could begin to listen with our hearts and not with our heads.

The reality of truth puts all those naysayers out of the picture because all those that want to dispute what the Gospel says right here have put their own worldly view of what’s right before the truth in order to make it more palatable to the masses. To make it more marketable. But what they miss, what they miss is the reality that the truth of the love of God sells itself if only we could tell others the same as they told others 2000 years ago.

John wrote it the best. Moses gave the law but Jesus gave the grace and the truth. Folks, there’s a lot that’s behind these 18 verses. Just my own research came up to over 40 pages in order to pull out all the facts and figures about these 18 verses. But, brothers and sisters, when I finally sat back and read and then reread this passage it occurred to me that we only need to focus on the very first line. En archo on to logos, kai to logos hen pros, ton theon, kai theos hen ho logos. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Folks, that says it all especially in the times that we live in. Where everyone wants to accommodate and nuance what’s written so that others are not offended. But I’m not so sure that accommodation is what Jesus brought into this world through the word. I’m not so sure that nuance is what He requires now or ever did require in the beginning. I’m convince that when we let go of what Jesus teaches in the face of adversity, those who oppress are never satisfied because those very oppressors have ignored what the Word provides.

I believe, brothers and sisters, that Jesus came into this world from the very beginning to walk with us while we find out that truth because, quite frankly, some days, my glass is half full and some days its half empty. Depends on what I’m hit with and I’m sure that we’re not that far apart. Some days I want to be that young pony and become something I’m not and other days, when I’ve read verses and spoken with some of you I’m sure that I could be that caterpillar busting out into a butterfly. You see that’s the beauty and the reality of our own truths.

Jesus says to keep Him in the forefront of our lives, in the forefront of our minds and our hearts and the truth, the real truth, that began with the inception of time itself will be made clear to us all. But also be like John, tell others your story. Tell it to them because, the odds are, they are searching for the reality of truth themselves. Something to think about. Something to pray about.

Can we pray? …
Father, in heaven. We give thanks for your sacrifice of your Son on that cross and the gift of His birth so that we can have grace and a chance at heaven through that grace and that mercy. We give thanks that you have sent Jesus into our lives to enable us to have a real relationship with you. Father, lead us into what our future holds with knowledge that Jesus is there as He was in the beginning. Help us to hold onto the promise you made with us through His suffering that He paid our price once and for all. We pray this in the name of your Son, Jesus the Christ.
And all God’s people said – Amen?!

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12/29/2024

Finding the Light – Christmas 1
Luke 2:41 – 52 – December 29th, 2024

The Lord Be With You.

A parable or short story on our Gospel …
There once was a man who would give his opinion of something but always end it with “however” which left many wondering if what he told them had any validity. This man hung around two other men who were on each side of any issue. One of them would never seem to tell it right and the other never told it wrong. Both of them always nuanced what they said with “according to the studies” in order to prop up what they said. All three men were convinced of what they thought. Convinced within themselves that they were helping. Convinced that everyone else were just to simple to get the deeper meanings behind their words. Those that had conversations with these three men almost always came away with more questions than they started with. After awhile, none of the three were ever bothered with any decisions because none of the three ever stood on solid foundations. We can find ourselves as one of the three men in our journey in this life.
Here ends the parable or short story.

Our Gospel for today lays the groundwork for the rest of Jesus’ life before His ministry was to begin. Earlier, in Luke, it has the words of Simeon who was waiting for the coming Messiah in the Temple and was promised to see Him before he died. There was also a prophetess named Anna who never left the Temple because she was waiting for the sign that the Christ had, indeed, come. So when Mary and Joseph entered the Temple they were surprised by these two people and it doesn’t say what were their reactions but one can only guess.

Luke is the only Gospel where the trip to Jerusalem is mentioned. But Luke is considered the historian of the four. A little background is warranted here to get the full picture of what Jesus lived among. A boy was considered an adult at the age of 13 so Jesus was 1 year from becoming a man. Once they reached 13 they were sent off to school where they learned the Talmud and the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of what we consider to be the Torah. In order to graduate, as it were, they were to recite the Torah by memory. If they failed, they went back to living with their fathers and doing what they did for a living. It they succeeded, they went to what is commonly referred to as Rabbi school where they would make their own scrolls of those five books and receive the sash that marked them as men of knowledge of God’s word. That’s where Jesus was from these chapters until He emerged on the shores of the river to get baptized by John. That’s why He is frequently referred to as Rabbi.

But, it’s most notable that those who surrounded Jesus in the Temple at just 12 years old, a mere boy, were those that had spent many years as teachers and Rabbis and scholars. Isaiah 11:2-3 tells of this, “The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him – the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD – and he will delight in the fear of the LORD.” One can only imagine what it must’ve been like to sit around and hear this boy tell what insights He already had and possibly what lays in the the future. What questions He most surely had and what answers to others questions He had the ready answers for. Did Jesus know, at that time, what His future would hold? Reading the rest of His life it would seem that His Father guided Him rather than told Him everything.

In the meantime, though, He was in the house, the temple, that God had allowed to be built. He was home but no one really knew it. Verse 44 of this Gospel reads, in part, “then they began looking for him” and when they found Him they were given a simple and profound clue as to who this Jesus really was. “I had to be in MY FATHER’S HOUSE.” Not Joseph’s house. God’s house. Jesus was Joseph’s son by adoption. No blood relation due to the historical blood line of Joseph. Jesus proclaimed that God was His Father. Plain and simple. Of course Mary knew in her heart. Time had passed since the birth because it says that neither her nor Joseph knew what Jesus meant. But it also states that Mary didn’t chastise Jesus for not being with them. My momma would have had a field day with my behind if I had done the same thing. But I ain’t Jesus. I think, though, that Mary and Joseph must’ve had a wake-up moment, an aha moment after they left.

I’ve called this message “Finding the Light” because sometimes we are so deep in the various ailments that we cannot begin to see the truth or our value. Sometimes we allow others to influence us to the point that all reality goes out the window. Sometimes we do not see the forest for the trees and it is then that we need to step back and come to the greatest realization of all time that Jesus was sent here, as a baby, from broken people, to give us that possibility to realize our innate value to the Father and the truth behind His birth. And through that understanding that is tamped down we can then begin to see the light of grace and mercy shining on us if we can get out of the shadows.

The hard decisions are not right from wrong but what options we believe we have. It’s easy to wake up each day and ignore the calling from Jesus that’s trying to get your attention. Jesus shows us that even those who we think will not listen to the Good News will because everyone wants the truth regardless of the façade they put on. We are driven to affirm our identity but those affirmation are people based and, by definition, broken. God has already affirmed who we are from the moment of inception. To declare otherwise is to ignore the God of creation for your own derived god that puts your self absorbed ideology in front of what’s real.

Folks, we only get one life. Most of us will not die and then come back. Most of us can’t even fathom what is waiting for you on the other side. Most of us don’t tell ourselves that this day might be our last. If you were lying in intensive care, I guarantee you that those things are on your mind. The missed opportunities or the decisions that didn’t go so well are front and center. This Christmas is our opportunity to take a moment. Grab those around you and give them a hug. The problems out there will still be there but the opportunity to really live is a fraction of a second. And there ain’t no do overs. This is the time of year to remember that you are a purposeful chosen one of God the Father. He put you on this earth to do something that makes a difference no matter how small. Build legacies that may only affect one person. Tell a story to a young person so they will remember what matters. Give of yourself so another might have an opportunity to experience the grace and the mercy that you have been given. This is the season and you just may not have another.

It’s kind of like the man who was working on his motorcycle on the patio, his wife nearby in the kitchen. While racing the engine, the motorcycle accidentally slipped into gear. The man, still holding onto the handlebars, was dragged along as it burst through the glass patio doors. His wife, hearing the crash, ran into the room to find her husband cut and bleeding, the motorcycle, and the shattered patio door. She called for an ambulance and, because the house sat on a fairly large hill, went down the several flights of stairs to meet the paramedics and es**rt them to her husband.

While the attendants were loading her husband, the wife managed to right the motorcycle and push it outside. She also quickly blotted up the spilled gasoline with some paper towels and tossed them into the toilet.

After being treated and released, the man returned home, looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle. He went into the bathroom and consoled himself with a cigarette while attending to his business. About to stand, he flipped the cigarette butt in-between his legs. The wife, who was once again in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her husband screaming. Finding him lying on the bathroom floor with his trousers blown away and burns on his rear end, legs and groin, she once again phoned for an ambulance.

The same paramedic crew was dispatched. As the paramedics carried the man down the stairs to the ambulance they asked the wife how he had come to burn himself. She told them. They started laughing so hard, one slipped, over went the stretcher, dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining stairs, breaking his arm.

I was told that story by an insurance adjuster about 50 years ago. But, ya know? Some days it’s hard to stay on the bright side. Some will have a harder time with it than you. Sometimes, the path that we think is what we’re headed down takes a sharp turn into the unknown. It could be good.

The three men, in the parable, are each of us as we interact with those around us. Many times we have to take a position that goes against what others may perceive as wrong. Other times right. But if we, like the first man, always hedge our bets, so to speak, then we can never get close to the one who was sent here to take us to the Father because we have forfeited the truth that He gave to us in the first place. If we are like the first man then we will find ourselves going through life alone even if we are physically with others because our hearts will no longer have a secure place to hold onto.

If we are like the first man then we will not be able to be the disciples God created us to be because our fear of alienating others will cause us to accept the evil of this world that Satan rules. We were made to stand. Stand and be counted for what’s right. Stand so that others can see the light that can shine through us to lighten their own darkness. There will be those that want us to be like the first man. They will want us to always hedge our bets because then they can rule over our lives with false direction. They will play on our weakness to pull us away from the truth of the Father as handed to us by Jesus and told by Him in our Gospels. They will, most surely, take us to places we could never have imagined.

Our challenge is to walk the line that aligns with God’s purpose for us. To always meet with others where they are still holding fast to what’s right in order to convey God’s mercy and grace. Mercy and grace goes a long ways towards bringing people into the arms of the Father and walking with them on the path of righteousness. That’s our challenge in this world so full of challenges. You choice is clear. Pick up the mantle of Jesus or lay down your life so that this world can rule it. Your choice. Make it a good one. Something to think about! Something to pray about?

Can we pray? …
Father, we pray for your guidance and your wisdom. We pray that we can convey to others the truth that you have given to us. We pray for your Holy Spirit to come into our lives to allow us to walk with others and to put others ahead as your servant. Be with us during these trying times. Be with us and give us your mercy so we can give that to all those around us. We thank you for the sacrifice of your Son so we can truly stand in front of you and be called good and faithful servants. We pray this in the name of your Son, Jesus the Christ, our lord and savior.
And all God’s people said – Amen?!

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12/25/2024

Signs of the Ordinary – Christmas Eve
Luke 2:1 – 20 – December 24th, 2024

The Lord Be With You.

A parable or short story on our Gospel …
Many years ago a young boy, who was only three, was playing in his yard and accidentally poked a tool from his father’s harness shop into one of his eyes. Very soon after this the young boy became completely blind. As he grew older he had no opportunity to learn anything since there was no ability to learn anything because blind people just sort of existed. This didn’t stop him and years later he learned to play the organ. He learned this despite his inability to see anything and, at the age of ten, he received a scholarship to the National Institute for Blind Children in Paris. Seven years later he was teaching at that same school. Teaching others that they too must use their gifts. When he was 15 he developed a system for blind people to read and that system is still used by almost all blind people to this day. What this man found was that from any starting point we have the opportunity to move to possibilities that may not even exist when we start on the journey but if we do not start then we will most fail to finish.
Here ends the parable or short story.

Four years ago, the planets of Jupiter and Saturn came together to form the “Great Conjunction” and many then harken back to the one that the magi saw that prompted them to begin their years long journey. It would take them three years to reach the place where they were led. But three years earlier another conjunction occurred with the alignment of Jupiter and Venus. That’s not the one these 3 guys determined was the actual one they had been waiting for. But even with all their knowledge of the stars they still had to ask for permission from Herod to go to where Jesus was. And Herod wasn’t aware of the same things the Magi were. That’s the account in Matthew and the one that’s on display in almost every manger scene.

Our story has the account of the shepherds which were out in the field on the night of Jesus’ birth. Now shepherds were not the most liked people of the time. They were usually viewed as shiftless and dishonest. Not the ones you or I would probably go to in order to proclaim something important happening in our lives but God decided that these were the very people that needed to be told first. They were the ones that had nothing to hide. They were already naked in their reputation to those living around them. But, more importantly, I believe God chose those shepherds because Jesus was to be for the people everywhere and if He had been born into the upper crust or the politically connected then there would be a distance between Him and the people He was sent to finally save. Jesus was sent to the lowly.

Isaiah 9:2 says, “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned” and it’s this darkness that Jesus was born into and the very one in which He came to give light to the nations cause, quite frankly, from the history books, all the people had succumbed to the darkest ways of living. And Jesus was foretold to all those that were supposed to know but chose to ignore what God had said. Isaiah 9:6 “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Folks, if only all of us today could remember this prophecy as we live out our days.

God didn’t mess around. When He shows up all Hell literally breaks loose. Breaks loose from it’s grasp through Satan on our lives. Can you just imagine what was going through the minds of those shepherds? They knew themselves as being viewed as nothings and, yet, here was God talking to them through His angels. His messengers. And then when the whole group of angels floats above them and starts chanting, those shepherds had to get up and move. Get up and go see.

But, many times, we start down that path. We make a promise that we will make adjustments. We assure ourselves that tomorrow we’ll turn over that new leaf but the next day comes and life gets in the way. Our good intentions get in the way. We put those high ideals back on the back burner. It’s just not the right time. Reality bites where the sun don’t shine. It’s like the little boy who was talking to the girl next door: “I wonder what my mother would like for Mother’s Day.” The girl answered: “well, you could promise to keep your room clean and orderly; you could go to bed as soon as she tells you; you could go to her as soon as she calls you; you could brush your teeth after eating; you could quit fighting with your brothers and sisters.” The boy looked at her and said, “No, I mean something practical.”

Verse12 of this Gospel reads, in part, “this will be a sign to you” and the angels were a heck of a sign to those witnessing them. God sent His angels to those with nothing in order to give them something. He does the same with you and me. Like the shepherds, though, we gotta accept those angels He sends to us all the time and go and see. Go and act on what you saw. The scandal of God coming to us as an infant and laid in a feeding trough is offset by the promise He made for us through Jesus and identifying with those who are lost.

I’ve called this message “Signs of the Ordinary” because it’s from ordinary people like us that extraordinary things will happen. By whatever road we take in life, the story of Jesus’ birth always takes us first to Bethlehem and then to Nazareth. Sometimes we don’t see or hear what’s being implanted on our lives. On our hearts. Sometimes we busy ourselves so we don’t have to acknowledge the existence of God in our lives. Sometimes our own pain overshadows the blessings we have been given and then we let the fear of Satan drive us further away from God. Sometimes, though, sometimes we stop and listen.

So just stop and re-experience this birth story and it’ll give us new hope that regardless of everything, regardless of the pressures, the pains, the victories, the irritants, we can come back to this birth story and reclaim our alignment with the one living God of all times and give thanks that He allowed His son to come into this broken world and offer us a way to stand before Him blameless. The birth of Jesus reveals a new world order in which the ordinary becomes the extraordinary. It’s a call for hope and humility.

Folks, we only live once but Christ allows us to live again. The birth of Jesus is the opportunity to see God in a human form so that, hopefully, we can relate. Instead of a higher being forever being out of sight we can look at Him lying there and come to realization that God’s word is real. Real for us. Real to the point that we can begin to follow Him. Real to the fact that no matter what we do we can never stand before Him alone and gives us that opportunity to stand there never the less. Real folks, Real.

The man I referenced in the parable was none other than Louis Braille. This man took his accident and made it purposeful so that all could experience a life with unlimited possibilities. Braille was born in 1809 in France and died a young man 43 years later almost to the day. His system of 6 dots in various combinations has opened the world to those who were previously limited in learning what could be. He adapted that system to music and there are a few notable musicians that have risen to fame using this method. His work has truly allowed others with blindness to see once again and has allowed those of us to discover that possibilities exist for literally every one of God’s creations.

When we use what we have to work with others then we’re almost certainly doing the work of God. When we look beyond our limitations is when we can truly see those possibilities displayed by God. When we listen to what we know is the truth and close out all those that are living in the world will be when we can get a little closer to Jesus. When we grab the hand that leads to the heart of those who are wandering in the desert of sadness or anger or uncertainty then we will be living out the gifts from God. When we accept those gifts given to us then we will be in the presence of God.

As we celebrate the birth of our Savior let us not forget the sacrifice that He came here in order to afford us the unlimited possibilities of the probability of a forever in the only place where there is no longer any infirmity that limits who we are but only that existence that confirms and affirms the joy and love that we are surrounded with. Make a choice today to realign yourself with the one who came here to give us the grace and the mercy and the light that we all need no matter what’s swirling around us. But we must make that choice to do so. Make it a good one. Something to think about! Something to pray about?

Can we pray? …
Father, we pray for your guidance in our lives. We ask for your wisdom to enable us to see the possibilities and opportunities that are always before us. Help us to lift our heads from what this world wants to drag us to and look to your light to give us a clear vision for the disciple you created us to be. Father, send your Holy Spirit to give us that heart for you. We thank you for your Son, Jesus, so we can always know that we will be accepted within your presence. We pray this and more in the name of Jesus, the Christ, our Lord and Savior.
And all God’s people said – Amen?!

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