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<\/a>Strengthening moments begin simply \u2026 a monarch butterfly photographed in our backyard on Dauphin Island, November 4, 2007.<\/p><\/div>\n
I like to commune outside, in a space that is\u00a0engaging and dynamic, filled with birds, trees, sky, various surprises, \u2026 \u201cYou-Are-Who-Are, Infinite Lover of All, Eternal Creating Spirit!\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Who am I? Where can I turn? Where is my strength, my center? I don\u2019t want to be distracted, addicted, enslaved \u2026 I deeply want to Live\u00a0being part of an Awesome Team! \u201cKumbaya to us, Your beloved, yearning Children, that we may keenly see and profoundly appreciate the needs, beauty, and gifts of each person and all creation!\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n So much potential, but we often seem ensnared, paralyzed, powerless, \u2026 and so much of this is our own doing. I have done both good and evil. I am grateful and regretful. But all evil can be, will be, and has been overcome! \u201cMerciful, Grateful Liberator, unshackle us from every hurt, injustice, doubt, anger, dishonesty, conceit, shame, and fear! Save us from every urge to do or return evil!\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n My children and George Washington Carver have taught me that everything we need can be found in what we already have! We\u2019ve been wondrously placed on this incredible, astonishing planet that has renewably nourished diverse life for billions of years. Without cost, the thirsty drink and hungry eat: free water, milk, bread, and the richest foods \u2013 all without costs (Isaiah)! \u201cLook at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap, yet our Heavenly Father feeds them (Jesus)!\u201d So why are we sowing and reaping such destruction upon the Earth! We! Who are we? God\u2019s children? We must find and believe in our Collective Creative Strength! We must become part of the Great Giving! \u201cWe-Are-Who-Are, drench us with free and abundant nourishment found throughout creation and through diverse and wondrous persons!\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Much of \u201chow-things-are\u201d in our world, the world of our making, is shaped by injustice, dishonesty, fear, \u2026 We continue to hold each other in chains. But a renewing togetherness, generous and\u00a0resourceful, is growing! \u201cWe-Can-Who-Can, rouse us to champion a wholly renewed world where nothing is wasted, every gift is shared, and every need filled!\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n We, though wounded, together in all our diversity, together with the Healing Spirit, are the answer! We\u2019re being counted upon! Our communal efforts and our inspired lives are the key to our Everyone\u2019s Heaven and the key to our future and our children\u2019s children\u2019s children\u2019s well-being and survival. \u201cWe-Will-Who-Will, heal us through shared words, play, and work so that we will come alive as one family filled with infinite joy, generosity, hope, understanding, creativity, openness, forgiveness, and love! Friend of All, our Imminent Victory, be our All in All, together for the benefit of All! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Rote prayers, like the You-Are-Who-Are prayer (seen in orange above), are guides, jumping off points for the heart, mind, and actions. I try to start each morning with the Lord\u2019s Prayer (the Lord\u2019s Guide) followed by this You-Are-Who-Are guide. It generally takes 30 minutes to an hour. Often I don\u2019t finish the rote words. What’s important is to join the Presence, be decisively encouraged, see the path to healing, \u2026, and wholeheartedly live it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prayer is not magic. Praying is strengthening, unifying, and liberating. Praying is life-talk, mission, the dance of revolution, … We\u00a0cry for new life,\u00a0nourishment, healing, action … Prayer is not individualistic. It\u2019s not about special favors or any kind of favoritism. … Continue reading