Transform: Listen: Prayers and Poetry

                       Transform

                        Even before pen to paper

                        can you see the sketch

                        take shape before your eyes

                        broken bottles, rusted car parts

                        cement, debris, weeds

                        transform into fresh

                        tilled ground—green grass.

                        Fledgling trees like puppet sticks

                        flower beds a rainbow

                        color splashing across despair

                        another season of creation

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                        breathes into a void.

Reflection: Purpose: Listen: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

1.     What is the difference between “knowing” with our minds and knowing with our lives?

2.     Is it ever possible to manufacture belief on our own? Why or why not?

3.     What do you know God is asking of you right now to trust Him with? Are you really engaged in the vision of a good result?

Share: How can self-method interfere with God’s purposes?

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Purpose: Listen: Prayers and Poetry

Reading: Romans 8: 28

“We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.”

ALL THINGS? Even those that tear our lives to pieces?

Yes. And we know that truth from all the many times He has brought healing and renewal through our struggles and trials.

Yet.  Even though we do know, how many ongoing times do we continue to not act and live into that truth? Surprise, fear, anxiety, catches us off guard and invades our faith. Instead of instinctively reacting in trust we hesitate. We linger in the transition towards purpose with doubts swirling like whirlpools ready to drown us.

Yet. Time and again we have been redeemed from sorrow into joy, despair into hope, and death into life. Always by His grace and mercy. New beginnings.

ALL THINGS! In His purpose and in His power.

Lord, please keep our hearts set on You.

Please keep our vision set on You.

Please keep our footsteps following only where You lead us.

Psalm of Worship: Proverbs 8:27

“When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,”