the luminous blog: 2007-11-18

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Dia de tristes recordações...

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...and joyful hopes

"We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered
in the province of Asia.
We were under great pressure,
far beyond our ability to endure,
so that we despaired even of life.
Indeed, in our hearts
we felt the sentence of death.
But this happened
that we might not rely on ourselves
but on God, who raises the dead."

- 2 Corinthians 1:8-9

On this 22nd day of the month
-a date that always makes me think
of something, of someone
now and evermore-
a month that is, of course,
officiously known as
"the month of the dead",
I found this Bible verse
to be especially appropriate
due to its very last sentence
and the hope, comfort, solace,
enlightenment and LIGHT
that it brings to me
as to all who have lost someone
near and dear
recently or not so recently.

We *WILL* see them again.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Thanksgiving, Upon Us... Once Again

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And may it be a worldwide
evenly-spread
equitable for each and everyone
distribution of goods
and bliss -
so easy to do, in concept
but considerably
harder to achieve
in the "concrete world"
as this reality's rules
dictate a whole lot,
well, of bullsh!t really
that precludes us
from doing what is
RIGHT...

Thanks anyway, world...

Thanks are to be given
to The Lord, anyway -
for He Gives
truly without
discrimination.

He Gives us

what we need -

whether it is what we wanted,

thought we wanted

or had no idea

we either wanted or needed!

THANK YOU, LORD
Amen!

:)

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