Today I discovered a movement in media that was started by one mans recognition that music is a universal language of love that can help to unite the world in peace." Playing for Change" http://playingforchange.com I was very inspired by this site. Yesterday I found this poem and it touched me:
Dancing With God
When I meditated on the word Guidance
I kept seeing 'dance' at the end of the word.
I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing.
When two people try to lead, nothing feels right.
The movement doesn't flow with the music,
and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky.
When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead,
both bodies begin to flow with the music.
One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back
or by pressing lightly in one direction or another.
It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully.
The dance takes surrender, willingness,
and attentiveness from one person
and gentle guidance and skill from the other.
My eyes drew back to the word Guidance.
When I saw 'G: I thought of God, followed by 'u' and 'i'.
'God, 'u' and 'i' dance'
God, you, and I dance.
As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust
that I would get guidance about my life.
Once again, I became willing to let God lead.
My prayer for you today is that God's blessings
and mercies be upon you on this day and everyday.
May you abide in God as God
abides in you.
Dance together with God, trusting God to lead
and to guide you through each season of your life.
This prayer is powerful and there is nothing attached.
There is no cost but a lot of rewards;
so let's continue to pray for one another !
And I Hope You Dance
These words were from:
http://www.stpetersmissionary.com/view/?pageID=293068
Just thinkin of you and I love You!
Love Shell
guid⋅ance [gahyd-ns] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1.
the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
2.
advice or counseling, esp. that provided for students choosing a course of study or preparing for a vocation.
3.
supervised care or assistance, esp. therapeutic help in the treatment of minor emotional disturbances.
4.
something that guides.
5.
the process by which the flight of a missile or rocket may be altered in speed and direction in response to controls situated either wholly in the projectile or par
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December 29, 2008
Love will starve if not fed...
Someone asked me recently what type of books I read. Here is an excerpt from a book that I have been "chewing on" for several weeks. Home-Making by J. R. Miller was originally published in 1882. The title refers to the making of a home, as designed by God. It does not refer to today's definition of the word home-making.
The following is from the first chapter, entitled The Wedded Life.
"On the contrary, there is no place in the world where the amenities of courtesy should be so carefully maintained as in the home. There are no hearts that hunger so for expressions of affection as the hearts of which we are most sure. There is no love that so need its daily bread as the love that is strongest and holiest. There is no place where rudeness or incivility is as unpardonable as inside our own doors and toward our best beloved. The tenderer the love and the truer, the more it craves the thousand little attentions and kindnesses which so satisfy the heart. It is not costly presents at Christmas and on birthdays and anniversaries that are wanted; these are only mockeries if the days between are empty of affectionate expressions. Jewelry and silks and richly bound volumes will never atone for the want of warmth and tenderness. Between husband and wife there should be maintained, without break or pause, the most perfect courtesy, the gentlest attention, the most unselfish amiability, the most affectionateness. Coleridge says: “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions, the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeing.” These may seem trifles, and the omission of them may be deemed unworthy of thought; but they are the daily bread of love, and hearts go hungry when they are omitted. It may be only carelessness at first in a busy husband or a weary wife that fails in these small, sweet courtesies, and it may seem a little matter, but in the end the result may be a growing far apart of two lives which might have been forever very happy in each other had their early love but been cherished and nourished.
“For love will starve if it is not fed, And true hearts pray for their daily bread.”"
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Time is short. I have to ask myself what I am filling my mind and heart with.
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You can read Home-Making free online at www.jr-miller.com or you can purchase the book here.
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