Tag: peace
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2024 reflection #1 – AI takes over the world
I’ve had a computer love-hate relationship for over 40 years. All of these efforts, struggles, angst wasted, it’s all so simple now.– Thrilled to have 10 pages of word processing before changing disks, after decades with typewriters– Learning simple programming– Frustration as components and programs don’t “talk” to each other– Developing websites since the early…
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and more peace
(one of my favorites, although I haven’t found a rendition I like enough to share) There will be peace in the valley for me some dayThere will be peace in the valley for me, oh Lord I prayNo more sorrow or sadness or trouble will there beThere will be peace in the valley for me…
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more peace
Ever since visiting Assisi, Italy, I have been fascinated with the life and writings of St. Francis of Assisi, venerated for his love and blessing of animals, in addition to his devotion to bringing peace. Here is his most beautiful prayer. May peace surround all of you today and throughout the coming week. Lord, make…
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peace & healing
(A morning prayer from one of my exercising texting buddies. We all have various physical limitations, and have adopted the motto, “With joy in my heart.”) Here is a prayer to bring about healing to your damaged heart. Pray for peace for those who have destroyed my peace.Grant love to those who have refused me…
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light morphs into peace
Last year I was introduced to the concept of foregoing new year’s resolutions in favor of picking just one word to look out for and contemplate. My “light” year filled up a whole journal with definitions, sayings, poems, music lyrics, scripture, movie references, etc. Being as last year was so successful, I am going for…
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advent: peace
The second purple candle of advent represents peace. Here I get to share just about my favorite Christmas words from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day…
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the one-word rule
This morning, on my patio, having replaced several of my plants that didn’t survive the summer, I sit quietly, contemplating family and confusing current events, I open my special journal, which I started in January (link). As an alternative to making resolutions, which nobody keeps, it was suggested that I pick one word to focus…
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soliloquy in green
A day to recognize and salute green. I’ll get you started (actually it’s tomorrow, I just checked the calendar) Idioms: greenhorn / greenback / green thumb / green with envy / green light / grass is greener / green around the gills / go green Books: How Green Was My Valley – Richard Llewellyn Anne…
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advent: carols
Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 57 year old widowed father of six children, the oldest nearly paralyzed during the civil war, wrote a poem capturing the dissonance in his own heart and in the world around him. This timeless carol is one of my favorites. May you also find hope and peace this day.…
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vantage point
Inescapable troubles abound: relational, personal, health, political, etc. Our viewing perspective makes all the difference in navigating the sludge of life. Taking Jesus as our stable viewing point, we can look out and face the “seismic catastrophes” facing us, knowing: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will…
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