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    Hang with God on this First Lenten Thursday

      No ashes or other give-aways today – not even a name for the Thursday after Ash Wednesday. So just quietly hang with God and rejoice in his invitation to live and love:  Deuteronomy 30:15-20 “Today I set before you life and prosperity… Choose life then that you and you descendants may live by loving the Lord, your God, heeding his voice and holding fast to him.”  Click here for the full reading. 

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    Grammys

    View image | gettyimages.com Finding God’s Wisdom & Spirit Sunday A.M. Church or Sunday P.M. Grammys My bet’s on the Grammys this week. I don’t watch award shows -usually – but… Sunday night I did turn on the Grammys. Don’t know why – maybe God’s grace (cf Katy Perry’s “By the Grace of God”). I became captivated and then mesmerized by the spirituality that was pervasive. There was the obvious, Beyonce’s “Precious Lord” and others. However, it was three songs and performances in close proximity that provoke me to make a blasphemous wager. I’m betting there was more spirit, soul and wisdom on Sunday evening at the Grammy’s than on…

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    The Lord’s Prayer: Twelve Tips for The Lord’s Prayer, Phrase-by-Phrase – “For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the Glory, Forever and Ever”

    11.         For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the Glory, Forever and Ever Go, God! Peace, happiness, fulfillment and understanding are yours, When and where they show up, your son and his kingdom tag along – even now Remember I prayed at the beginning: “thy kingdom come?” Help me calm down (not so easy) and be drawn peacefully (harder still) into the mystery of your kingdom’s power and glory – here and now on earth. You made me; you saved me; you love me. Let me bask in you power and glory forever, But now too.

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    The Lord’s Prayer: Twelve Tips for The Lord’s Prayer, Phrase-by-Phrase – “Forgive Us Our Trespasses, As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us”

    8. Forgive Us Our Trespasses, As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us   I like the word “trespass:” – a neat grown-up word for mess-ups – But better, it’s so non-threatening!  Like a kid crossing a neighbor’s property to chase a ball Other words scare me: evil, sin,  meanness, selfishness, damage. God, as long as we keep this between us, I’ll cop to some to doing of those bad things So, I’ll take the deal. It seems fair. Forgive my mess-ups and I’ll forgive those who have messed me up. But I’m gonna need your help to close my side of the deal.  By the way, one final thing,…