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mindfulness | Noticings, Wonderings, & Yearnings…
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Noticings, Wonderings, and Yearnings…. 8230;of words and the Word. About the Author: bataylor. Extra Mercy Jubilee Day Is Here! How shall we spend it (really, invest it)! February 25, 2016. This week’s focus word comes compliments of Violet N. Please join us; please share your reflection. Thank you! In the context of being one on a journey home to the Father, mindfulness. To use two football expressions. Ideally, it will be full of what Jesus’ mind is full. And yet, my mind is limited (. Yet, Jesus said ...
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simplify | Noticings, Wonderings, & Yearnings…
https://bataylor.net/2016/03/17/simplify
Noticings, Wonderings, and Yearnings…. 8230;of words and the Word. About the Author: bataylor. Shine, Jesus, Shine! March 17, 2016. This week’s focus word comes compliments of Linda. Please join us; please share your reflection. Thank you! I should have known that overcoming overthinking, overdoing, over-collecting would be a lifelong spiritual journey struggle–the seeds, the symptoms were clearly visible. Perhaps the most salient metaphor:. The older I get, the more mindful I am of the necessity of simp...
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(blind) Faith? | Noticings, Wonderings, & Yearnings…
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Noticings, Wonderings, and Yearnings…. 8230;of words and the Word. About the Author: bataylor. February 4, 2016. This week’s focus word: (blind) Faith comes compliments of Justin S. Please join us at Spiritual Journey Thursday. Thank you! Given that I like to ponder, I looked ahead at the SJT list that Holly shared, and started jotting down some thoughts for the first few OLW. 8230;Or is it? First, I needed to remove the parentheses in order to explore directly the idea of Blind Faith. I couldn’t. 8230;I...
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admire | Noticings, Wonderings, & Yearnings…
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Noticings, Wonderings, and Yearnings…. 8230;of words and the Word. About the Author: bataylor. Extra Mercy Jubilee Day Is Here! How shall we spend it (really, invest it)! March 3, 2016. This week’s focus word comes compliments of Julianne. Please join us; please share your reflection. Thank you! Unfortunately, even children’s literature (e.g. early series books) holds up characters whose behavior would not have cut it before edgy plots and bratty characters became the standard.). When I find myself spont...
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Wait! | Noticings, Wonderings, & Yearnings…
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Noticings, Wonderings, and Yearnings…. 8230;of words and the Word. About the Author: bataylor. March 10, 2016. This week’s focus word comes compliments of Holly, SJT facilitator and hostess. Please join us; please share your reflection. Thank you! 8220;Wait for the Lord with courage, New Jersey. Be stouthearted and wait for the Lord.”. October 5, 1995. Those were the farewell words, based on Psalm 27:14, that Pope St. John Paul II spoke to the participants of the Papal Mass he celebrated at (. If youR...
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bold | Noticings, Wonderings, & Yearnings…
https://bataylor.net/2016/03/31/bold
Noticings, Wonderings, and Yearnings…. 8230;of words and the Word. About the Author: bataylor. Stations of the Cross–Mercy Reflections. 8220;Merciful like the Father” →. March 31, 2016. This week’s focus word comes compliments of Donna S. Please join us; please share your reflection. Thank you! The word bold sounds to me onomatopoeic. One syllable that cuts to the chase: strong, direct, emphatic, without equivocation. Bold. There’s no mistaking it for wish-washy, ambivalent, tentative. And that explains ...
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Shine, Jesus, Shine! | Noticings, Wonderings, & Yearnings…
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Noticings, Wonderings, and Yearnings…. 8230;of words and the Word. About the Author: bataylor. Stations of the Cross–Mercy Reflections →. Shine, Jesus, Shine! March 24, 2016. This week’s focus word comes compliments of Doraine. Please join us; please share your reflection. Thank you! If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sinsIf for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable people of all. (1 Corinthians 15: 17, 19). Thanks to Doraine,. Although I d...
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Intent | Noticings, Wonderings, & Yearnings…
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Noticings, Wonderings, and Yearnings…. 8230;of words and the Word. About the Author: bataylor. February 11, 2016. This week’s focus word is compliments of L.A. Eck: Intent. Sometimes I play a solitaire-incentive game. “Do [. This or that chore. 8221; I tell myself, “and then you can [. Do this or that discretionary activity. Sounds reasonable, even maturely responsible, don’t you think? 8220;The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” (. St Paul admitted: “…I do not do the good I want, b...HmmAt lea...
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echo (2) | cbhanek
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Quick Thinks about Literature and Life (Redundant? April 15, 2016. Today’s Poetry Friday (PF) hostess is Michelle Barnes at “Today’s Little Ditty.”. Today’s PF hostess is the same illustrious Ms. Barnes who generously hosts a monthly “Spotlight on” author interview, complemented by a monthly poetry challenge. It is in response to Michelle Barnes’ April/Poetry Month Ditty of the Month Club (DMC) challenge, that I created two “echo-based” acrostic poems. The first echo photo-poem (a combo acrostic-haiku),.