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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within u… Continue

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away.
We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on.
What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

“God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.”

A few months ago I had given a friend of mine a lift to church and since I'm in a wheelchair he had to reassemble my chair and bring it to my driver’s door. As he was assembling my wheelchair I was getting my tithing’s out of my bum bag and I was putting into the tithing envelope when my friend saw how much I was putting in.

His 1st response was ~ Why are you giving that much in your tithing?

My response was ~ Well because as Christian we are meant to give 10% of your earn… Continue