THE IMPORTANCE OF FORGIVENESS

I've recently gone through quite a lot of forgiving lately and learning why it is so important, so I thought I would share to save you some time. If you think that it's an easy thing to do, you're wrong~ it isn't meant to be easy. We must learn to live as The Lord God lives, patiently teaching and forgiving ourselves and others every day. If we want love, we must love. If we want forgiveness, we must forgive even those we don't like very much, even those who have stolen from us and have done unmentionable wrongs, even those who don't love themselves very much. We are called to live His way.

In Neale Donald Walsch's book Friendship with God, Neale writes about the need to destroy the illusion of separation. When we forgive others, we are forgiving ourselves, the part of ourselves that is part of The Lord God. We are not separate, we are One. If we hurt others, we hurt a part of ourselves, so treat others as you would like to be treated so that it doesn't get to where you have to forgive anything. But if a brother or sister asks a hundred times to be forgiven, forgive him a hundred times because that's what The Lord God does to and for you every day.

MORNING ROSE

Holy Lord God, thank you for the blessing of your presence, to live inside and out of us, creator of the universe, Lord and Master of us all. You are truly great! You are indeed holy, majestic, multi-dimensional, wonderful, regal, and the Only One deserving of our worship. Please bring the children of your nations peace, fortitude, and a deep and sincere knowing of You and Your wishes and desires for us. Please give us strength and courage to recognize it is Your thoughts and dreams we experience and live to see through and it is our beingness and willingness to do Your work that enables You to see them all come true. All praise and honor to you Good Lord God, forever and ever! Amen.

DON'T YOU WISH TO WAKE?

I was reading about Amos, a shepherdman that lived about 800 B.C., with several of my fellow congregationalists the other evening, and thought about how great and mighty the Lord God is to be able to not just judge us individually but can also judge us as an entire nation through His expansive everknowingness. And the question was brought up, "If our nation is doing something we don't like or don't agree with, can and will I, as an individual, be punished for it?" and we concluded that yes, we can if we don't do or say something to stop it. We can be judged not only for what we do; but also for what we don't do. Yes, The Lord God knows what's in our hearts and how we feel and what we think and what we are capable of; but we must do more than just think and feel to live in this world. We must do His work to stop what we don't agree with whether it be writing a letter to a Congressman or even the President, voting, recycling, walking for Breast Cancer Research or the like, fundraising for children's education, emailing friends and neighbors, staying in touch, supporting each other when we're sick or poor through floods, droughts, tsunamis, cyclones, terrorist bombings, Middle East wars, ethnic cleansing campaigns like Darfur that are unbelievably in existence today even after World War II and even though they may be on the entire other side of the world, what affects them ultimately affects us all because we are all one; otherwise, we can suffer dire consequences if we become acquiescent and say nothing. So you see, my friends, there is no time to sleep. Sleep no longer is an option if this is the case. Don't you wish to wake?

THE LORD GOD'S PERFECTION

When I was growing up, I always looked at everything that wasn't perfect in the world, and even sometimes criticizing them not realizing that I was actually criticizing The Lord God Himself instead of looking at all the things that were already perfect in the world thus having The Lord God in them. The Lord God's perfection lies in His loving us, being patient with us, accepting us for who we are, and by doing so, becoming even more perfect Himself and greater still- ever expanding, not staying still. And what a great and Good Lord God to give us this gift to be able to see, touch, smell, hear, and taste His Goodness! To learn to know Him personally, see the Saving Prayer below.

INCLUSION

The Lord God wants to be included in EVERYTHING we do- not just the bad and not just the good, EVERYTHING. If we don't include Him, He will create events in our lives that will beyond a doubt cause us to call out His name whether we like it or not because He Is. If you think He is not here or that He does not love us, You are crazy. If you think that He does not see or hear what we are doing on a minute by minute basis, You are crazy. Be kind to EVERYONE you meet because they are Him, too. If He hears, sees and knows what we are and how we are, He knows EVERYTHING from the beginning to the end of time, and even what and how we are isn't enough to keep Him from loving us and what a humungus gift that is not only to us but also back to Himself!

THE SON OF GOD

Have you ever thought why our Sun was named Sun and how closely the name sounds to Son~ as in Son of God? And how warm and bright it is, warmer and brighter than any other object in our sky and sight and what we know? And how we see it every day without fail, and that it is always with us even when we don't see it? And how undeniable and unmistakable this gift from God is to us- without it, we would perish; we would be lost; we would be unbalanced?

Say this prayer today to be saved, to become found, to find balance in your life: "Lord Jesus Christ, I recognize you as the Son of God who died on the cross to save my life. Please come into my heart to wash away my sins and bring me everlasting peace. In your holy name, Lord Jesus Christ and in the name of The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen."

I give glory to My Father, My Lord and Saviour, and My Holy Spirit for this simple but very powerful blessing.