Wholeness

The beauty of loving someone is the feeling of "wholeness" that I experience.  The need for that individual in my life, the "I'm part of you and you're part of me" feeling that connects two people and makes them necessary to each other - Kathleen Andrus.

Our Creator asks us to love one another!  Where love doesn't flow easily, perhaps we can just decide to not hurt someone.  If we each avoided hurting all people, for just one day, lives would be transformed.  We'd each see the world with a fresh perspective.

The more we love others, any others, the deeper our love will grow for all others.  Loving lifts our hearts and lightens our burdens.  Every day's tribulations can become triumphs when we carry love in our hearts.  Love fills us up, and the more we share it, the fuller we become.

We are connected-each of us to one another, all of us together.  Our contributions to the whole are necessary.  Its completion is made perfect by our presence.

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As I pass a friend today, I will be grateful for their contribution to my wholeness, too.

K. Casey

Target

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,

and I learn, whatever state I may be in,

therein to be content - Helen Keller.

 

There is wonder in the moment, if we but look for it, let it touch us, believe in it.  And with the recognition and celebration of the wonder comes the joy we desire and await.

Being wholly in tune with the present moment is how we'll come to know the spiritual essence that connects all of life.  We search for peace, happiness, and contentment outside of ourselves.  We need instead to discover it within us, now and always, in whatever we are experiencing.

We can let our experiences wash over us.  Longing for a different time, a distant place, a new situation breeds discontent.  It prevents us from the thrill, the gifts offered in this present moment.  But they are there.

We can practice feeling joyful in the present, be thrilled with the realization that right now, all is well.  All is always well.  Life is full of mystery and wonder and each moment of our awareness adds to the wonder.

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I am moving forward; we all are.  I am on target.  I am participating in a glorious, wonderful drama.  Let me jump for joy.  I have been spiritually blessed.

K. Casey

~ Broken Toes, Broken World !! ~

"TWICE in my life I've broken one of my little toes by colliding with furniture. Ouch! FOR days I limped painfully, my body protecting its tiny injured member. My body was doing exactly what it was designed to do. IT supported and sympathized with the part of me that was hurting. GRADUALLY my toe healed.

ALTHOUGH I'll never again take my toes for granted, I sometimes take for granted certain members of the church. Paul taught that the church is the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:12-27), not merely like the body of Christ. Each member has God-given abilities to support and sympathize with other members.

IF Christ's church is to function the way God designed it, there are three things we dare NOT do: (1) Refuse to fellowship. (2) Let fear and lack of Love cause us to withhold our gifts. (3) DISREGARD or OPPOSE the gifts of others through pride and envy.

INSTEAD, we need to be actively using our spiritual gifts to the benefit of fellow members of Christ's body. Only when we experience both the giving and receiving of Christ's healing-Love for broken members will we be ready to reach out to a broken world." - JEY.

"You are the body of Christ, and members individually ( 1 Corinthians 12:27)."

FOR We Are Connected By The Love That Comes From God Our Father.