ReflectionsByTheWater

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Daily Prayer

Thank you Father for pouring out Your blessing. receiving Your Love is Life itself.Thank you Father for being with us. You are a very present help.Thank you Father for giving us Your word, an ever-nourishing bread.Thank you Father for our living water, a source of eternal Life.Thank you Father for providing richly for us. Not …

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Love

Before the foundations of the world. Before the sands of time set. Before the first motion ever made. Love. Once this world has been unwound. Once existence has exhausted itself. Once the book of Life is closed. Love. The beginning and the end.The Way, the Truth and the Life.God is Love and Love is with …

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A Universe Awakened

A universe born. Heat beyond conception. Energy beyond belief. Infinite expansion. Unrecognizable existence. Atoms take shape. Plasma clouds dominate. And then there was light. Matter condenses, creating stars. Stars birth new elements, the seeds of planets. Planets, solar systems and galaxies given shape. Physical, chemical and energetic processes shape worlds as they please. Comets, asteroids …

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Cycles of Life

One beautiful principle of life is its cyclical nature. Take water for example. Moisture, having been brought to the skies from below through evaporation, condenses into clouds. Growing in density until too heavy to remain, the vapor condenses and descends to the Earth as rain, hail or snow. Once on the Earth it may find …

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Wealth

True wealth lies in learning to see, feel, and experience the inherent richness in all things. By doing this, each smile becomes meaningful, each moment treasured, and each person sacred.

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Embers of Anger

Wielding anger is like flaming a fire. The warmth can be comforting and healing, necessary for life. But to create fire without a purpose or to use it in excess can cause damage, even devastation. A burnt meal, a ruined home, destroyed crops, an entire town burnt to the ground and all from a rogue …

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Light and Dark

The Creator known as the One sat through all eternity with his two sons Light and Dark. Light and Dark being equal in might and stature, did not find it suitable to regard each other in such a way. So they asked the One, “which of us is greater?” Seeing no true distinction the One …

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