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Being outdoors while experiencing nature’s grace, may just offer any person a moment of cleansing peace.
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(Updated October 28)
The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Williams James (1842-1910) was an American psychologist and philosopher. He has often been referred to as the “father of American psychology.”
Words used every day
Little or much to say
Used in positive ways
Conveying life’s essays
Mindful, powerful voices
Daily, humble choices
Impacting other lives
Celebrate with high fives
Disciplined purpose speaks
Positivity seeks
Sharing tender kindness
Truthful, without blindness
Careful to help and heal
Offering a square deal
Words paying it forward
True and straightforward
Thoughtful expressions said
Weaving with tender thread
Replace evil with good
Words plain and understood
Honest lyrics in song
Carried through all day long
Life unfolds from our text
Watchful where words go next
This poem was written several days before January 6, 2021. Its intention was to praise and encourage the positive power of words. The events taking place in Washington, DC on January 6 showed the negative power of words. How will our future words speak?
Originally published January, 2021.
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In sharing our struggles with others, we hope their response will share embracing love and understanding words.
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(Updated October 27)
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, patience creates unity.
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be a peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X (1925-1965) was an American human rights activist.
From Psalm 16:1-2: “Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.'”
Facing uncertainty
More questions than actions
Reaching out to Father
Love’s trusted interactions
Harboring inner doubts
Weakened by rising tides
Praying now to Father
Mercy brings answers to guide
Choosing to always trust
Assurance speaks to heart
Listening to Father
Grace nourishing faith’s fresh start
Tasting heavenly joy
Life’s outlook now renewed
Receiving from Father
Page turned, filled with gratitude
Rejoicing in hope’s light
Righteous path before thee
Conversing with Father
His peace calms as darkness flees
From Psalm 16:11: “You show me the path of life. In Your presence there is fullness of joy; in Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
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Our faith’s fabric will be tested, but Christ’s light will keep our hope alive.
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(Updated October 26)
The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.
From Psalm 37:5: “Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him, and He will act.”
Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) was a British-born Christian missionary. He spent 54 years in China.
The Buckeye state of Ohio offers a landscape filled with quite a diversity of wildlife. Two of its more unique creatures include the black squirrel and eastern box turtle.
The black squirrel is of the same species as the eastern gray squirrel. Its distinct black outer coat has evolved because of a mutation in a genetic trait called melanism. This increase in dark pigment results from an increase of eumelanin production.
Some distinctive characteristics of a black squirrel include:
A black squirrel finds readily available food sources in habitats with mature trees such as oak, hickory, maple, and walnut. Each thrives in a human-dominated landscape, where its dark outer color blends with shaded areas. Trees with a dense canopy provide shelter from predators and weather extremes.
For nesting and shelter, a black squirrel may utilize manmade structures, such as attics, chimneys, and sheds.
The eastern box turtle lives a less active and more isolated existence than the black squirrel. This turtle acquires its name from its centrally hinged lower shell which allows it to draw more tightly against the upper shell. A more effective protection is provided for the turtle.
Some unique characteristics of an eastern box turtle include:
An eastern box turtle stands out with the high-domed carapace of its upper shell. The base color is usually dark brown or black with a wide variety of markings. The shell is accented with streaks and blotches of yellow. Some shells may display colors of orange or red.
Being terrestrial, this turtle is quite comfortable living on land in open woodlands. During the summer heat, it will lie hidden beneath rotting logs and decaying leaves. Only in the coolness of early morning and evening will the eastern box turtle venture out.
During its reproduction cycle, incubation of 3-8 eggs lasts about three months. This usually occurs between May and July.
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May we embrace even the smallest amount of goodness from unexpected places.
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(Updated October 25)
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