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The Lord can do Anything.
Nothing is too hard for the Lord!
Mark 12:29-31
Jesus replied,
“This is the most important:
‘Hear O Israel,
The Lord our God, The Lord is One.
Love the Lord your God
with all your heart
and with all your soul
and with all your mind
and with all your strength.’
The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
No other commandment
is greater than these.”
Reality. We are not third. We are second. “WE are second.” This is the truth. Live this.
When you attempt to act as third: you do no one any service.
My godmother had 2,000 people at her funeral when she was 62 years old. She was just about the most lovely woman to ever walk this earth. I ran into her constantly in Dallas. We would laugh and she would say, I only saw you once this week. If we were invited to a luncheon of 3,0oo women, she would be there, easily found. If I went to a Christmas sale, she would be there. At the grocery store. In huge Dallas, this is only the Lord.
My godmother would say to me at prayer group, are you going to such and such? No, why? Next week. Are you going? No, why? Finally, the next time I said, Oh, honey, this only works if we don't check!!! And, when she didn't ask, we started running into each other again.
My godmother was a great Baptist and she always said, I am third. Oh, I don't agree! And as she died of cancer, she let her adult child escape to 12 vacations and fun. And in their large family, they waited. And, pounced upon the adult child, at her mother's funeral. God Almighty, that was ugly.
We are not third. We are the Second. We have a duty to say, "No."
No, you are damn well not going on 12 vacations, as I lay dying.
Be emotionally healthy. Fight the good fight. Honesty and mercy.
We have the duty to not be the sly family waiting to pounce on the one who flies in private planes, avoiding her mother dying. Say "No" to being jealous, ugly at the funeral of a fabulous woman. Weep instead. Not poke. She is not going to need your sly poke. Third. Hostility in fake sympathy and a red, hot poker.
All that fake third, is leading to NOT in the beautiful Scriptures, it's fake and petty. Fake third leads to indulgences, jousting for position and the more seen halo. Forgettabout it. Be real instead. Plan on forgiveness after the real and justifiable anger is going to fade.
Columbine. Oh, no, we need gigantic signs saying to forgive the men who killed your ... children. That's fake Third. Fake third is very judgy.
Politically Correct. Is a set of rules in culture, that leads people apart. WE are Second. THANK GOD. We are a whole community, sea to shining sea, with lots of pool table rebounding upsets. No, YouTube, repeating commercials about fake meat are not appropriate or teaching us. Gad. Let's all try tofu bacon at the grocery store and put it in the garbage and ask for another piece and repeat. Kidding.
Romans 12:9
Let Love be genuine.
Abhor what is evil;
hold fast to what is good.
The dove was sent forth in Hope. Dream of a new beginning. And although the Dove showed the olive branch, the Dove left to make the new beginning.
We all have a new beginning.
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved,
for the joy of the Lord
is your strength.”
Romans 12:9
Let Love be genuine.
Abhor
what is evil
Hold Fast to what is good.
Abba, Father,
Very much a work of the Lord.
When the
Events of
Easter
coincide
Giving Thanks
We remember
John Wesley said, “The Work of God
continues
His workers go home”
Coinciding
John Wesley never left the Anglican Church
and The Anglican Church
never left
The Roman Catholic Church.
One God,
One Plan
As we think of the Sacrifice
of Jesus Christ
His Love
as He Forgave
We realize
a Thousand Years
are a Day to You.
And Give You Thanks
for
our
Salvation.
God of Light
You are in all things
You are Light of the world
Light of mankind
Light of Heaven
In all Things, You Create
You have given us Jesus Christ
Holy is
the Highest Name
Above
all others
Your Kingdom come
Your Good Will be done
we pray for more
on earth
just as it is in Heaven.
Give us This Day
Our Daily Bread.
Jesus the Living Bread.
Forgive us our Trespasses
as
we forgive those
who Trespass
Against us.
Lead us not into temptation
Deliver us from Evil.
For Thine
is the
Kingdom
and
the Power
and
the Glory.
Giving Thanks!!!
For the Peace
in our
Jesus Christ
John 21
Thank you, Jesus our Lord Christ
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