Giving ourselves away for others...#
24/7/2024
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Category: Pure Love
Love's Record
14/7/2024
How does love conquer time? How is love recorded beyond any man's mortal coil? A life is captured for the next generation/s by its legacies.
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Of Outcasts & Others
6/3/2024
I will gather the lost and love the lame. God heals the outcasts, those for whom nobody cares.
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A Prayer for Community#
10/7/2022
'Cultures of gratitude must also be cultures of reciprocity'.
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True Life#
28/4/2022
True living begins with seeing ourselves as we are and not as we should be. The son got up and went to his father.
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The 8 Shades of St Valentine!
13/2/2022
From Wales to Washington, from Manila to Moldova Valentine's Day steals hearts and lights souls. Valentine's Day enters the calendar from the earliest Christian traditions.
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Label Me your 'LOVER'!
21/10/2021
And the good Lord would say to those willing to stop and to listen: Label Me as your 'lover'. I AM the ONLY righteous lover to mankind.
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Love - vast as the ocean#
19/10/2021
I stand on a beach. The ocean is before me stretching out to the next continent.
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JESUS - meek & mild!
7/10/2021
Jesus cares for sheep, especially the lonely and lost ones. Satan sees Jesus as his competitor for the weak and lost sheep. Jesus and satan are complete opposites.
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When Love is Essential!
25/9/2021
At a terrifying rate faithfulness is abandoned, and obedience jettisoned. The proposition for obedience is uncomplicated, no higher intellect required: I direct my life or He does.
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Jesus' Edge
5/5/2021
Where is the soft spirit, the quiet eyes or the easy touch of warm support? Scanning the tabloids, listening to the daily news or watching soul-numbing sitcoms there appears little room...
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LOVED - before my time began#
31/1/2021
Though the Lord is on high He looks upon the lowly. . .
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Moved by Manning
27/1/2021
Dishevelled, distressed and stupefied may have been what any common passerby saw of Brennan Manning at various times; yet this man through his worst wit's ends would bring many others...
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Wide, Wide As The Ocean#
17/1/2021
We strive to be prayerful despite our weaknesses, failures and sickness in the soul.
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Love & Fireworks in 2021?#
2/1/2021
Have we already experienced 2021? Is 2020 coming again? Take out 2020 and substitute 2021.
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When Democracy becomes Vile
14/11/2020
The anthem of a now grey-haired/balding generation eager for peace was 'make love, not war.
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The Records of Love
28/5/2020
How does love conquer time? How is love recorded beyond any man's mortal coil? A life is captured for the next generation by its legacies.
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Without Love...#
19/9/2019
Every now and then my memory plays a cameo lesson to me, a clever reminder for that day. This makes me surprised, yet also quite happy. Enjoy this sample.
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Intimacy Gained
16/5/2019
Intimacy and busyness are rarely wed, they are unnatural partners. The following tale has often been repeated: .
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The Dread of Loneliness#
21/6/2018
Loneliness is a single rose with no vase to hug it. Loneliness is outstretched arms that close around no one. ~ anon.
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Mastered by a Stronger Love ~ B
7/6/2018
The heart given to the Lord, the soul lost in the Lord always has flesh that follows.
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Mastered by a Stronger Love ~ A
6/6/2018
God's ways are not as man's - fortunately. If they were He would be but as you and I - foolishly mortal and wantonly indulgent.
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The Wisdom of Foolishness
17/5/2018
To the western-world of individualism that elevates personal rights and a mono-identity, it becomes a rabid foolishness to release personal rights and seek your identity by union with another.
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Turning Trash To Treasure
1/5/2018
There is a chameleon-like Old Testament prophecy - Zechariah! Judgment, justice and victory are spoken of by God through Zechariah. This book opens and closes with His tenderness.
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Seized By A Great Affection
30/4/2018
The hunger for love resides within each human. This is to be expected, as all mankind is made in God's image; He is love.
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Easter's Transparent Father
26/3/2018
Jesus' Father could do more contain His love to man, than Jesus could contain His devotion to His Father.
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Above the Tags, Bags & Rags
10/12/2017
Christmas purchases account for 1/6th of all annual retail sales in the U. S. Masses of devotees are dedicated to addictive shopping. It is largely devoid of any teamwork.
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The Pedestal of Love
30/8/2017
Foundations are most important. They are equally as important in life as in death.
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Unshaken Love
20/8/2017
The ancient Greeks and Romans (among too many other 'societies') practised the chilling, abominable habit of exposing 'unacceptable' new-borns.
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The Beautiful Valley of the Soul
25/6/2017
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Is not the search for a superior love the compass to life? After all, mankind is first made in the image of He whose fabric is love.
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Done With Church?
24/5/2017
Are you done with church but not with Jesus? Has church become less than civilised for your spirit as well as your soul? Does the shepherd scatter the flock; do the sheep...
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That Penny of Love
7/5/2017
The Lord knows all our needs whether we advise Him or not. He has known them forever. Without question the greatest gift of all time is God's love.
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Of Love & Other Impulses
14/2/2017
Love covers all things. When love is not present or only light upon its feet, all things are NOT covered.
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4 Fathoms Deep into God's Love
8/1/2017
The world's first global television link aired on June 25 1967.
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Forever I Would Choose You
21/9/2016
What else can I gather, who else can I know but You? Apart from You I am empty, in Your absence I thirst As your right hand rests lightly upon me, in...
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The Seeds of Love
1/9/2016
Every kindness we do to another in the name of Christ is the sowing of a good seed unto the Spirit.
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Reaching for Love
31/8/2016
Love builds resilience. When love is weak or absent so too is vigor. Love is water to the soul and nurture is peace to the spirit.
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6 Ways of Kindness
7/8/2016
Surely goodness and mercy will warm the kind soul all the days of their life? Kindness in words create grace. Kindness in thought creates depth.
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The Love that is Infinite
26/7/2016
Littering each day's paths are the morsels of earth's offerings. They distract our eyes, claim our hearts and trip our feet.
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Orphan Tim's Story#
5/5/2016
Tim lived life in an orphanage. He was a bright and friendly little bloke.
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The Hyper-Love Deceit
2/5/2016
Love has been placed upon a pedestal. Mankind has ordained it to a role love cannot fill.
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This Treasured Love
26/4/2016
Young hearts are tender hearts. They are to be shaped ever so softly. . . Tears welled in his tiny blue eyes.
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Alone & In Love
15/4/2016
Lovers do not care to share their lover. The heart in love yearns to give to, and share their lover's full attention.
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Love is Life's Summit
14/2/2016
Hearts are melted, hearts are worn, heart are soothed or hearts are torn. Love can be as constructive as its loss can be destructive.
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Love Whispers
11/2/2016
Love is kind. Patience is its delight. Humility is its milk of care. Lust is a bully. It screams and yells. Demands and commands - yet love won't.
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The Shape of True Love
10/2/2016
Three centuries ago the firebrand pulpiteer Jonathon Edwards melted pride and chastened souls with his timeless sermon - Sinners in the Hands of an angry God.
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Love is Safe
9/2/2016
Headlong the unattended infant ran into an oncoming Toyota. He had played happily alone for some time on a grass verge.
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18 Original Ways of Love
7/2/2016
Love should be the soul-stirring poetry across each and every day. But it is not.
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Love's Unsearchable Delight
27/1/2016
There is a loveless pandemic, rarely addressed, but multiplying daily. Jesus foretold that the love of most would grow cold in the end times.
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Why Didn't God Protect Us?#
14/1/2016
God gave no thought to create His precious children and stand back, to simply gaze at us in some remote besotted manner from a distance.
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There is a Hole in the Heavens
7/10/2015
The heaven's contain a perfect heart shaped hole. It is where God's love tore the skies apart above Calvary.
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God the Diamond
17/6/2015
Once upon a time (about three centuries ago really) the firebrand pulpiteer Jonathon Edwards melted pride and chastened souls with his timeless sermon - Sinners in the hands of an...
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Maturing in Tenderness
16/6/2015
To mature in tenderness - is this even conceivable? Have you ever registered another's unspoken plea for tenderness or peered into torn eyes? Or just maybe you have hungered for tenderness as a...
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Imagining Love
15/6/2015
My religion, my music, my spirit, and even my childhood all confirm that within life upon this planet: love is earned.
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An Anthem for the Undone
11/6/2015
A divine anthem for the forlorn, the frail and the fallen from He who was undone first - permit these love-filled truths to wash over your soul and water your...
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The Journey to Love
13/5/2015
God's intentions for life were that it should be a journey with love. Countless people have lived otherwise and continue to do so.
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The Bellow of Blood
26/3/2015
Have you ever heard the bellow of blood? Blood screams for satisfaction, it flows for vengeance and demands justice. Yet the bellow of Christ's blood is love NOT retribution.
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How to Climb Heaven's Ladder#
3/3/2015
Holy Scripture cries out to us, brothers, saying: everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. . .
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Replacing the Pharisees
23/2/2015
The know-it-alls didn't. Without any gilding of the lily Jesus hammered the loveless and self-righteous Pharisees.
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6 Tips to Escape Ambition's Jail
15/2/2015
There remains conflict twixt earth and heaven, between a man's body and a man's soul. This struggle is painfully evident in the redeemed soul.
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How to Truly Love!
5/2/2015
Jesus would project these love truths daily upon your mind's eyes given opportunity: Love is looking into your eyes and seeing your heart. Your happiness is my happiness .
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The Sunshine of Love
7/8/2014
Soul Snack 150/14 . . . Circa 1967 Eric Clapton strummed The Sunshine of Your Love, countless more worldwide have since joined the chorus.
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The Harbor of Refuge
30/4/2014
Who holds the salve when the heart thumps and the spirit aches? Where is there a harbor of refuge for those lost to love? Where is the safe haven for the love...
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Souvenirs of Solitude ~ Love & Speech
23/4/2014
Soul Snack 77/14 . . . Of learning there is no end, of lust there is no satisfaction, but from love there is life forever.
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The Measure of Christ
26/3/2014
Soul Snack 60/14 . . . Past all desolations, wars, resentments and rejections - love will survive.
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The Futilty Gods
28/1/2014
SoulSnack 19/14 . . . So much of what was presented to me as real in bygone days, I now see as fictitious.
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The Cry for Love
10/7/2013
SOUL SNACK 129/13 . . . The Cry for Love To grasp God as love is to lay hold of His eternally good intentions.
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To the Love Hungry
8/7/2013
SOUL SNACK 128/13 . . . To the LOVE HUNGRY To those unwashed in love. . . To those unwanted in love. . .
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How to empty hell
16/5/2013
Soul Snack 92/13 . . . How to empty hell! Where anger is healthy resentments are bred. Where rejection is delivered withdrawal is chosen. Where authoritarianism rules, rebellion rises.
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Learning Love
18/3/2013
Soul Snack 53/13 . . . Learning Love For those whom love has lost. . . For those who live in love's absence. . .
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The Love Comp
5/3/2013
Soul Snack 45/13 . . . The Love Comp Love has its competitors. There is always competition for the heart.
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Of Judaism & Islam
9/12/2012
Soul Snack 221/12 . . . Of Judaism & Islam There is no such thing as legislated love. Love can no more be enforced than faith can be robbed.
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The Disciples of Moses
6/8/2012
Soul Snack 134/12 . . . The Disciples of Moses The disciples of Moses live in fine religious health to this very day.
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Trusting in Love
18/3/2012
Soul Snack 36/12 . . . Trusting in Love If the knowledge of God cascades your entire being it will also flood your heart.
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The Liberty of Love
10/2/2012
Soul Snack 10/12 . . . The Liberty of Love Canopying western society is a marketplace that daily indoctrinates self-dissatisfaction for its own greedy ends.
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Private Love
27/10/2011
Soul Snack 187/11 . . . Private Love There is healing in love. All souls need love and almost all need healing to various degrees.
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An Addicted Jesus
6/6/2011
Soul Snack 88/11 . . . An Addicted Jesus Extravagant (and errant) lifestyles are injected into our attention daily.
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Wounded Hearts - B
2/6/2011
Soul Snack 87/11 . . . Wounded Hearts - B The heart of man is the seductive seat of decision making.
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Wounded Hearts - A
1/6/2011
Soul Snack 86/11 . . . Wounded Hearts - A Scars and wounding are parts of all life.
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As I've matured
30/5/2011
Soul Snack 85/11 . . . As I've Matured I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don't get it.
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Blind Rule Keeping
8/2/2011
Soul Snack 11/11 . . . Blind Rule Keeping For thirty-eight years, humiliation and discomfort had been this man's lot.
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Wrestling with the Cross
7/2/2011
Soul Snack 10/11 . . . Wrestling with the Cross There is a false self and the real self.
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Golgotha's Grace
31/10/2010
Soul Snack 188/10 . . . Golgotha's grace There is a boisterous love that refuses to be constrained.
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The Boundaries of Love
28/10/2010
Soul Snack 187/10 . . . The Boundaries of Love It is in the search for love that the boundaries of a life are found.
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The glittering YOU!
26/9/2010
Soul Snack 146/13 . . . The glittering YOU! Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
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Unrestrained love
19/8/2010
Soul Snack 138/10 . . . Unrestrained love "Sometimes I feel diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
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Lingering Love - B
10/8/2010
Soul Snack 131/10 . . . Lingering Love - BRecently I read this definition of love: . . . meeting the needs of another, sometimes at cost to ourselves.
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Lingering Love - A
9/8/2010
Soul Snack 130/10 . . . Lingering Love - A Love endows goodwill and grace as the immovable sealant to relationship.
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Of gaping seams and tears
27/7/2010
Soul Snack 121/10 . . . Of gaping seams and tears Patched together is surely the best way to express the fabric of human lives.
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Unearthly love
21/6/2010
Soul Snack 96/10 . . . Unearthly love The display of unearthly love awaits all. It is available to the seeker. It is reached by the penitent.
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Love without words
7/6/2010
Soul Snack 87/10 . . . Love without words "The elderly gentleman next door had recently lost his wife.
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An asymmetrical world
23/5/2010
Soul Snack 76/10 . . . An asymmetrical world. The symmetry of creation is perfectly centred upon an unadulterated, unadorned and authentic life-giving love.
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Consuming love
28/4/2010
Soul Snack 60/10 . . . Consuming love I have forever sinned. I wish I had never sinned.
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Living and Loving!
9/12/2009
Soul Snack 9/218 . . . Living and Loving! Usually my mind is mightily consumed by the simple facts of living and planning.
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Failure free love
19/11/2009
Soul Snack S8 . . . Failure free love! The sharp crack of china on tiles was an unmistakeable trigger.
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Heaven's Scalpel!
15/11/2009
Soul Snack 9/200 . . . Heaven's Scalpel! Shrouded in the ghosts of her past, the present was crippled and the future bleak. Ghosts aren't fine travelling companions.
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Purposefully Loved
16/9/2009
Soul Snack 166/11 . . . Purposefully loved An eternal heart of tenderness knitted you together.
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Heaven's "Hold"
8/2/2008
Soul Snack 8/7 . . . Heaven's HoldWhen I said, "My foot is slipping," your love, O LORD, supported me. . .