Tag: gratitude
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If I Only Had More Time Each Day…
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What do you wish you could do more every day? With More Time I’d Have…More time to read, More time to breathe.More time to notice the unpacking of a momentbefore it packs up and leaves.More time for quiet evenings. More time for musings at dawn.More time for my toes to swimthrough waves of tall grassand…
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The Song of Life Inspirational Poem
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The Song of LifeThe rhythm of my soul beatswith joyful contentment.GratitudeAwarenessOpennessare the melodies my heart sings.The song of life is playingevery second of every day.Lean in.Listen.Closer…until it movesyour heart to dance.Justin Farley
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Poem About Being Content, Humble, and Joyful
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Great Expectations Joy can seize us in the lowliest of places, perhaps even easier than in the loftiest ones. Humble eyes are open wider than those of great expectation, those muted of exultation and closed to the blessings that abound in the ordinary – it’s commonness makes it no less miraculous. It’s easy to see…
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Poem About Gratitude, Having a Positive Attitude and Blessings
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No Quarter If I look, I’ll find 1000 complaints, but I’ve resolved to give no quarter to protest when I’ve been so blessed with gifts raining down from Heaven like manna. If I find my vision dull, dark, and gray it’s because I’ve chosen to stay blind to how lucky I truly am. Of course…
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Build Within Me A Foundation of Thanksgiving – A Poem of Praise to God
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Build Within Me A Foundation of Thanksgiving – A Poem of Praise to God May your rays of righteousness pierce through the clouds and shadows of my heart. May my mind give way to your fruit – take up your shears and prune these vines that ensnare me. Give thanks, give praise to the tree…
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Life’s Amphitheater – A Poem About Helping the Less Fortunate
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As I was driving down the road the other day and came to a stoplight, my eyes fell upon a young woman begging on the side of the road. I must admit that often times I am quick to judge out of pride or wonder why they are too lazy to pick themselves up and…
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It Is Finished – The Gospel of Grace
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“After this, Jesus knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), ‘I thirst.’ A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ‘It is…
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Remaining Humble and Relying Upon God
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During my morning study, I read through David’s Song of Deliverance in 2 Samuel 22. I have been making my way through the Bible, determined to read it from start to finish this year. King David has been a familiar character through 1 and 2 Samuel, but this morning I was really struck by David’s…
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Inspirational Poem About Helping Poor People, the Homeless, and Fighting World Hunger
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As we go through our day to day lives, it is easy to think our way of life is normal – even expected and demanded. It is easy to think we have it harder than most people and to focus all of our attention on our needs, but our way of life is not the…
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I Am Not A Victim – The Courage to Change
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The hardest thing about fighting back against any mental illness, addiction, mental limitations, or physical limitations is that there is not a direct enemy that you can see, that you rebel and fight against. I read “Unbroken” by Lauren Hillenbrand a few weeks ago and was inspired by the story. But it wasn’t the time Louis…
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Thanksgiving – An Endangered Day of Thanks and Praise
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It is a tragedy that a day that was once remembered as a way to show gratitude and thanks, has turned into another way for businesses to make a quick buck and people to hunt down deals. Frankly, anyone who takes place in those activities should be ashamed of themselves. Thanksgiving is a day to…
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Showing the Gospel – Love One Another
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“He [Jesus] laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him…When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed…
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A Change of Perspective
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Recently, I’ve been reading a book called “He Walks Among Us – Encounters With Christ In A Broken World” by Richard and his wife Renee Stearns, who is the president of World Vision – a Christian humanitarian organization. In it, the couple shares stories of children and families they have encountered in their work, applying the…
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Living Happy Now
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It’s no secret that more people are unhappy than ever before. Unhappy with their lives, unhappy with their careers, unhappy with their spouse, and most of all unhappy with themselves. Happiness has become some intangible emotion that we are always reaching for, yet never able to firmly grasp. As soon as you think you have…
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