Thoughts to Ponder from Reverend Mary White
We are called to a free life
Born into it
A child loving everyone
A gift of freedom
And then
Life experiences
Begin to bind
Capturing our thinking
Into little slots
That grow and take
The way of the world
Upon our being
We have our own chains
Stitching with our thoughts
Of judging and comparisons
That take away our freedoms
Which will return
When we begin
To love everyone again.
– M J White
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Blessings and the strength of Love be with you.
Rev. Mary
revmjwhite@hotmail.ca
Reading • Galatians 5:13 (MSG)
It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about God’s Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That’s an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
PRAYER
Empowering Spirit
You dwell in our every breath delivering within budding power and courage to be our authentic self.
May we know the potential in ourselves and see it in all whom we meet. Help us look beyond those guarded behaviours, the obvious, and have faith in the abilities hidden below the surface. May we discover the vitality within to be all You intended for us. We pray in the name of Love.
Amen