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Illness of the Body
Nobody likes to be sick. Runny noses, aching muscles, bones, and organs, sneezing, coughing, headaches, shivers, chills, fevers, and other unmentionable symptoms wrack the body, and suck the energy right out of the body. This is exactly where I have found myself the last few days with an overwhelming force. Prior to that I struggled…
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Consider This
Is Life ravenous? Is Life possessive? Consider the idea, the thought, and the implications from a variety of perspectives. See what happens, or shows up.
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You know… No, really – You Know
Okay, so you might think I’ve got my act together with all the wonderful advice that seems to come from what I write. Why, how, where, what… ugh… Sometimes, I wonder where it comes from, why I have to share it, who really cares, does it really matter, and so on. Oops… Did I just…
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Experience Joy
Open up to Life my heart, fear not your feelings of hurt and pain, they burnish the gild inside a false shell hiding the meat, your life! To be surrendered. “You belong to me ,” she said. Copyright © 2007 Lee Down, all rights reserved
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Christmas is Coming!
This has been an incredibly busy and fast-changing fall season; at least, for me it has. It’s strange actually, as I suddenly contemplate what next to say, that as I observe the difference of this fall season against the summer, that the fall season seems more frenetic. First it is the end of summer and…
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God’s Will | Meaning of Life | Creation is Love
From the archives Love is the Force behind all of Creation and it is the same driving force that inspires human-beings to pursue. I recall when I was a regular attendee at church and new to the Christian faith that the conversation around God’s Will came up quite often. In transition myself, this was an…
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Truest Challenge
To truly love. Repeat it, carefully and slowly. Let it sink in. No, really, stop reading for a second and just let the phrase, “To truly love,” really seep into your senses. I want you to feel it and its’ ramifications. What I noticed as I contemplated the phrase in its’ enormity, was an expanded…
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Eeyore Rules, Piglet, Pooh, and Roo too!
I had the rare privilege to catch a beautiful prize. We puzzle, observe, tweak, and tune in an effort to lure that mother into sight. Ah, but she is elusive, slippery, clever, and sly as she dances in and out from the shadows. Not tonight though, no! She bathed there in the moonlight, clear as…
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Courage & Love Prevails
Weary to the bones, feeling the heaviness and despair, the fatigue demands you to sit and breathe awhile. As you sit and withdraw within the burdened mind and heart, you pant for breath, for life to return. A gust of wind stirs and refreshes you momentarily, clearing away the dark thoughts of the day, the…
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