Clash bang stifle swing
Drop dank doom dapple
Blood dip zoom rip
Tangle bow envelope
Tip swipe baffle whack
Cringe kick cleats quit
Running screaming
Hiding hoping praying
Giving sparing mercy
Mop clean wash sanitize
Heal suture thread close
Swallow drink cook heat
Wrap cover warm soothe
Peace generosity charity
Love blessing forgive
Friends enjoy justice.
The worries of life draw us away from the things that really matter. Sometimes we forget about the simple things, the most essential things, as we struggle to deal with life’s daily distractions. Well said, Anna.
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I’m formless yet
so worried about
doing and looking
forgetting the sweetness
of being alive forsaking
god somewhere on my
own map of events
duties and having to have
being liked and praised
endless strife if I could
just stop it a minute
to get – that craved
drink of fresh water
transparent and true
on the shore of
consciousness
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Wise words concerning mutual respect, even when two people do not agree. It does go a long way, and, usually, both people are the better for it.
“Having a form of godliness, but denying its power…” This is quite common in Christian circles today, as it has been for a long time.
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.” – 2 Timothy 4:3-4
As a general rule I do my best to adhere to the policy that one ought to promote what one loves rather than bashing what one opposes. But today, I feel the need to warn y’all about the ear ticklers. “Have their ears tickled” was something of an idiom in ancient Rome which meant that a person was listening for things which were pleasing to them rather than the truth. What people looking to have their ears tickled really had a preference for were ideas which were new or novel. Paul warned young Timothy that the day would come when ear…
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