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August 7, 2011

Psalm 7 – God Is Just

Moving on through the Psalms in order, but skipping ones I’ve posted before, brings us to Psalm 7 (NLT). This is a Psalm of prayer asking for God’s protection. There are some troubling passages in this Psalm because we don’t like to think of God’s...

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July 31, 2011

Lamentations 4 – Trusting in God Regardless of Circumstances

Although I normally post a Psalm on Sunday, this past week I was reading through Lamentations and found that chapter 3 of that short book fit so perfectly with some of the other posts I have been writing lately, especially some of my poetry. So...

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July 20, 2011

Darkness to Light – A Poem

In My Tuesday Three post yesterday I challenged us to stop hiding behind the masquerade of a perfect life, and share our struggles so that others might benefit from our journey with God. Then yesterday morning, during my prayer time, a poem came to me...

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July 17, 2011

Psalm 4 – God My Righteousness

In pondering what Psalm to post for today, I decided to just start at Psalm 1 and post the first one in order that I had never posted before. Turns out I’ve already posted Psalms 1, 2, and 3, but have not posted Psalm 4....

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July 14, 2011

Erased – A Poem

Today is Thankful Thursday here at my blog. This theme day started with acrostic poems of various synonyms of the word “thankful.” But God has led me to morph this theme into something much broader than my original idea. This week as I thought about...

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July 10, 2011

Psalm 89 – Praise for Our Creator

This past week we were on a camping vacation to the Redwoods in northern California. For several nights we stayed at Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park inland just a few miles from Crescent City and the ocean. We stayed in site number 89. We didn’t...

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July 6, 2011

Learning to Forgive – A Poem

Many years ago the Lord taught me the importance of forgiving others. The command to forgive as we have been forgiven is not meant to be a burden, but rather a means of giving our burdens to God and lightening our spiritual load. I never...

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July 3, 2011

Psalm 146 – The Lord Sets Us Free

Tomorrow is Independence Day in the United States, and since if falls on a Monday it’s a three-day weekend for a lot of people. All weekend we will celebrate our freedom and our country. With the idea of freedom on my mind, I did a...

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June 30, 2011

Unceasing Prayer – A Poem

Continuing on with my thoughts on prayer, I decided I would write a poem about how thankful I am for prayer and for the strength and wisdom God grants me through prayer. I know that without prayer my life is much more stressful and overwhelming....

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