Spiritual Growth:
05-07-2010
Cracked Pots

Isaiah 64:8

Please read this touching story about cracked pots.

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02-18-2010
The Common Living Dirt

A Poem by Marge Piercy from the Anthology Sisters of the Earth (edited)

The small ears prick on the bushes, furry buds, shoots tender and pale. The swamp maples blow scarlet. Color teases the corner of the eye, delicate gold, chartreuse, crimson, mauve speckled, just dashed on. The soil stretches naked. All winter hidden under the down comforter of snow, delicious now, rich in the hand as chocolate cake: the fragrant busy soil the worm passes through her gut and the beetle swims in like a lake. As I kneel to put the seeds in careful as stitching, I am in love. You are the bed we all sleep on. You are the food we eat, the food we ate, the food we will become. We are walking trees rooted in you. I worship on my knees, laying the seeds in you, that worship rooted in need, in hunger, in kinship, flesh of the planet with my own flesh, a ritual of compost, a litany of manure. My garden's a chapel, but a meadow gone wild in grass and flower is a cathedral. How you seethe with little quick ones, vole, field mouse, shrew and mole in their thousands, rabbit and woodchuck. In you rest the jewels of the genes wrapped in seed. Power warps because it involves joy in domination; also because it means forgetting how we too starve, break like a corn stalk in the wind, how we die like the spinach of drought, how what slays the vole slays us. Because you can die of overwork, because you can die of the fire that melts rock, because you can die of the poison that kills the beetle and the slug, we must come again to worship you on our knees, the common living dirt.

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12-19-2008
God Keeps His Promise

1 Corinthians 10:13

God keeps his promise and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm. At the time you are put to the test, he will give you strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.

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12-19-2008
There is a Role for Prayer and Spirituality in Healing

James 5:15-16

And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

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12-19-2008
Faith Heals the Body Mind Spirit

Luke 8:48

Your faith has healed you. Go in peace.

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