Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty!
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99
Hello, Brother; I have missed You for so long. I think about You every day, but only in a cursory way, never in a caring way, only off-handedly. You have been with me my entire life, and yet I have been foolish enough to disregard You as being real. So many people—friends, neighbors, pastors, and the like—have told me I must pray to You, but I have never met You, never even sat down at a table and shared a meal with You. Not even a cup of coffee!
And yet I feel I know You too well, but not well enough to praise You. So why do I call you Brother even though my mother had but one son?
I think of You now to come to the side of my brother-in-law having heart surgery as I write, to guide the hands of the surgeons to heal my friend and return him to our family.
Hello, Brother Jesus, I do Love You So!
P.S. I Love You. And I pray You love others. Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty!
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt. If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99
Do not fool yourself. When you think that your faith is failing you, look deep within you. Search everywhere inside of your psyche. Disregard all of the learning that you have. Search through your schooling and the books that you have read, and disregard that. Because inside of all of that, there is a little mustard seed. Tiny. Hidden behind all the folds of your psyche, just waiting to be discovered.
And when you pick out that tiny, little mustard seed with the tweezers of your mind and let it open up, you realize that it’s the faith that you have had all along; the faith that fills you till you want to burst. The faith that brings tears to your eyes. The faith that grabs your throat so that you can’t talk. The faith that lets you know that God is within you and that She loves you so much that even if you wanted to, you can’t scream! Scream from the mountain tops that you are loved. That you are cared for. That you matter to the world.
So listen to your heart. Take that tweezer and find that little seed of faith inside of you. Find God within you. And finally, feel comfortable. Feel truly loved. Amen.
P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty!
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. D.Litt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99
We turn our heads to not see; we are blind to those in need; we are blind to compassion; we leave them in the dark. We must recognize the pain, as Jesus did among us; He was moved by compassion; Compassion that we lack; He witnessed the hurt, the deprivation, and wept.
Jesus came to the world, to be the source of light, the source of compassion and goodness. Jesus entered to light a darkened world,
Something happened to society! We looked within and found ego; It is time to reach those in need, the poor, the migrant, the homeless, the addict, the widow, the orphan. We must serve the disempowered, open our eyes, cure our blindness, as did Jesus.
P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty! Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99
Regardless of who we think we are or who we think we want to be, we will always be what God wants us to be. I understand that hidden within the core of my existence is part of Jesus that guides me. He is part of me, set in the beauty of a flower, that although I don’t know it, flourishes in front of all others. It encourages them in ways that I am not always aware.
The light that shines from my existence is His light. It’s the light of God that shines in all of us, if we recognize it. It is beautiful. It is just. It is giving. It is benevolent. It is loyal. It is honest. It is loving. It is beyond the bounds of any church that man has created. It is the reason that Jesus was nailed to a cross. But Jesus’ love is passed down through the generations to all of us. And all He asks is for us to love one another.
Every day I meet people, and every day I share His love to the best that I can. I do it with humor. I do it with honesty. And always with love. Let us all do the same.
So who do you want to become? Let us all become ministers of God’s love.
An older couple shares a joyful moment together in their warmly lit home.
P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others. Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty! Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99
A charming gray home welcomes visitors through a flower-filled front garden and white picket fence.
Or should I say things haven’t really changed. We are strange creatures. For instance, we go house hunting, and we find the perfect house. The first thing we do is redecorate. We tear everything down and change it to our liking, and that perfect little house that we fell in love with is no more. And when we go to sell the house, the next people that buy it do exactly the same thing. That vicious cycle repeats itself over and over again.
Man is like the seasons. Maybe that is how man got this habit of changing everything. The Bible tells us that man is made in God’s image. God made the earth. And we look at nature. We look at beautiful nature. And beautiful winter. And beautiful spring. And beautiful summer, And beautiful autumn. These beautiful seasons die to be reborn. Each one of these seasons die to be reborn in beauty the next year. So maybe, our need to fix is not irrational. It is part of our makeup. It is part of the way God makes us. We are creative souls. God has blessed us with that gene.
My only prayer is. Let us use it constructively and not destructively. Can we imagine? What the world would be like if the trillions we spend on military equipment and the bombs that we drop each year killing each other were spent on redecorating our little houses? Redecorating these little houses for the people, the little people that we killed, who are lying in alleys hungry, freezing, poorly fed. Let us spend the trillions on eliminating poverty instead of on weapons; Feeding and clothing people. Educating people. Opening our eyes to our lack of care has done to them. That our governments] indifference and greed are doing. To its people.
The rich would still be rich. They just wouldn’t be very rich. The poor would still be poor. They just wouldn’t be very poor. But all would be educated. All would live in homes. All would be fed. All would be healthy. All would have the ability to improve themselves.
I never wanted to be a billionaire. All I wanted to do was teach. It took me 30 years of working and studying to be able to teach. And boy, did God reward me. To stand a bunch. To stand not in front of. But to stand among a group of eager high school students, and then among a group of eager college students, so that we could learn together. . . about life. My 20 years of hard toil was well worth it. And I hope I touched a few hardy souls. I know that I was rewarded. Because of the friendships that I made. And the love that I shared.
P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty!
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1
The Word provides a – known Creation, a mystery to me, almost imperceptible. I abandon arrogance and stand in awe of the Word. I recover meditation and prayer, I relearn truth, love, and grace; I ask and I seek. I allow my heart to grow, receiving the Word as a newborn, believing in the One greater than myself, greater than all things. I learn holistic truth through His Word. I seek eternal Love in the Word, renounce popular theories unworthy of attention, seeking the mighty something within the Word. My gifts are of the Word, longing to be shared. I consider my own call to truth, to life. I am vulnerable and expose my weaknesses to fruitful truth, achieve liberation from the night sky, filled with the Word’s truth. I become a prophet speaking Truth, speaking the Word, sharing my natural gifts, using the Word. Look to the Word when confronted by fear, disappointment. The Word unburdens, lights my path, expands my heart, becoming inseparable from the quantum knowledge, and universal Word, forgives my debts, other’s debts to me. I shake off illusion, step from the shadows, walk into the light, accept the sacrament of forgiveness, spread the sacrament of forgiveness. I long to live in the Word, as the Word lives in me . . . from the Giver of the Word.
P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others. Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty! Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt. If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99
“And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.” — Ecclesiastes 12:7
Our own personal lives, that live with the community and worship in our churches, find that we can live only in the now. All are present in our prayers. As a congregation, we pray for the Spirit to be with us, joining our souls with Christ. When we are in a state of grace with Christ, our soul is translucid to God, for where God does His work within our soul. God builds His home within us; it is in the soul, and we must lift ourselves and join with God to receive His glory, His majesty, and His grace. Our soul belongs to God; it is where He purifies us.
P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others. Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty! — Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
“So, faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.” Romans 10:17
The Holy Spirit guides us in our lives; Our listening is important, for the Spirit speaks through others. We must be open to the Holy Spirit and transform ourselves to listen; the Spirit counsels love; God’s word comes to us through the Holy Spirit. Our pride brings us trouble; our pride is a big problem; we talk a lot and listen poorly. Our character must include patience; patience brings hope; hope is the love of God. When we love God, we receive Spiritual refueling.
P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others. Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty! Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt. If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99
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