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3 posted on 05/31/2009 11:23:59 PM PDT by JustAmy (Taxed Enough Already.)
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Good morning, Amy.


5 posted on 06/01/2009 4:47:58 AM PDT by PGalt
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Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list

June 1, 2009
Holy Fools
If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. —Mark 9:23

When God spoke to Abram, he obeyed at once, departing for an unknown land based only on a promise. Childless, he trusted God to make of him “a great nation” (Gen. 12:2).

God often does His work through “holy fools”—dreamers who strike out in ridiculous faith. Yet I tend to approach my decisions with calculation and restraint.

My church in Chicago once scheduled an all-night vigil of prayer during a major crisis. At length we discussed the practicality of the event before finally putting it on the calendar. The poorest members of the congregation, a group of senior citizens from a housing project, responded the most enthusiastically. I wondered how many of their prayers had gone unanswered over the years, yet they showed a childlike trust in the power of prayer. “How long do you want to stay—an hour or two?” we asked, thinking of van shuttles. “Oh, we’ll stay all night,” they replied.

One woman in her 90s explained, “We can pray. We got time, and we got faith. Some of us don’t sleep much anyway. We can pray all night if needs be.” And so they did.

Meanwhile, a bunch of yuppies in a downtown church learned an important lesson: Faith often appears where least expected and falters where it ought to thrive.

Faith looks across the storm—it does not doubt
Or stop to look at clouds and things without.
Faith does not question why when all His ways
Are hard to understand, but trusts and prays. —Anon.

Prayer is the voice of faith.

Bible in One Year: 2 Chronicles 15-16; John 12:27-50


6 posted on 06/01/2009 5:15:59 AM PDT by The Mayor ( In Gods works we see His hand; in His Word we hear His heart)
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Be with you all later....gotta run to Courthouse to get sticker for tag...expired yesterday! LOL! Think I will take the back streets to get there....!


10 posted on 06/01/2009 7:31:00 AM PDT by jaycee ("His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.")
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The Pledge is decorated just so pretty and decorated so patriotic. I like it. I am answering a few pings before I change clothes and plant a few petunias and then I will be through planting! And let the watering begin!


23 posted on 06/01/2009 9:41:27 AM PDT by jaycee ("His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.")
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