Happy Thanksgiving 🍽🦃🍁

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> MAY THE PEACE OF GOD BE WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE THIS DAY. - AT ALL TIMES IN ALL PLACES GIVE THANKS. FINALLY OUR PEACE COMES FROM WITHIN AND NOT FROM THE WORLD AROUND US.
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> BLESSINGS AND LOVE,
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Byways

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> "Sometimes it's the byways that test you and make you what you're meant to be." Life doesn't happen in a straight line from start to finish. It zigs and zags and gets upside down and every which way around. In all this we are tested and find our way. There is the Spirit engaged in all that is happening, inspiring, encouraging, renewing us from inside out. In other words creation never ceases.
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> Enjoy your byways too.
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Vengeance Breeds Bitterness

"In the murder of my brother, I had to learn to respond to evil in positive and healthy ways,….Vengeance breeds bitterness and only love can smother and conquer hate…even in the midst of tragedy and evil, there is still God and God is still good." (Tyrone D. Gordon, Circuit Rider, March/April 2003)

And so it has been, so it is,  and so it shall be.

Proverbs 3:6

"IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT THY PATHS." (Proverbs 3: 6) In these unsettling times it is well to pause and wait for guidance,…..So may it be with you this day and all days to come.

Post Election Wisdom

Our freedom henges on each person voting true to his/her sense of what is right. Sometimes it is not real clear what that is but do the best we can. I am not surprised at Trumps victory. Now his job is to measure up to the office and bring his strength to healing and unifying our country. To that end I will pray for him every day and pull for his success.

Omelettes

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> "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." (found in some of my reading) - For the last year and half we have had candidates for President of this country breaking eggs. Seems they have found every unkind word possible to break eggs on someone else. We are tired of this. Tomorrow we vote and finally know who will be the leader of our country the next four years. After tomorrow I hope and pray attention will turn to making omelets.
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Love of God

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> I am grateful this morning that nothing can separate us from the Love of God. Not even the blundering mistakes we make, the inappropriate words we speak, the fears that haunt us. And it is Love that binds us together and heals our wounds. I pray this for ourselves and our nation.
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Psalm 51:10

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> Create in me a clean heart, O God.
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> This prayer rises to the surface of my mind many times as I live the moments and experiences of life.
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Good Citizen

"Be a good citizen. All governments are under God. Insofar as there is peace and order, it's God's order. So live responsibly as a citizen….." (Romans 13:1  MSG) — In the midst of our toxic political environment it is important that we keep our perspective healthy and on solid values and principles.