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

* PERSPECTIVE !

WHAT do we do about godless culture that clamours for our attention?

HOW do we defend our children, ourselves and others around us from unhealthy influences?

THE answer is the same for all: Our protection is the Word of God.

TO begin with, we must spend time in God's Word, allowing His precepts and principles to permeate into our thinking and living. WE ought also to teach it to our children from the time they are small, and we should readily share it with others - helping them to understand God's perspective on the situations of their lives.

A Tool for You. So how do we get into God's Word? HOW do we come to understand it so we can apply its truth to our lives? We must read it - and study it - listening and asking Him to speak to us.. "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" - Romans 12:2.
ALBERT LEE

The listening side of prayer: Christians who have learned to pray but not to listen will find it difficult to get guidance. Often we treat God the way we treat our friends, and do all the talking!
We allow Him no time to talk to us, to whisper His confirmation or His word of change. To get guidance, you dare not neglect the listening side of prayer. TELL Him your problems, then sit back and listen for the answer. IT will come in a quiet, deliberate witness to your heart. Don't be anxious or too eager. Let all haste and tension go. As you sense His nearness, lay the issue before Him. Then go the way of peace. * Psalm 31: 1-24.

PRAYER: Father, I need so much to learn the art of listening. Quieten my heart today that I might learn to listen for your still small voice. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
SELWYN HUGHES

* Painting ..

"We have our
brush and c o l o u r s - we
paint paradise
and in we go". (Nikos Kazantzakis)

*** ~ A CHRISTMAS Miracle (MAURIAC) !! ~ ***

"To love someone is to see a miracle that is invisible to others" (Mauriac).