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
“By this, we know that we abide in Him and He is us, because He has given of us His Spirit.” 1 John 4:13
God is always with us, within us; His presence is quality, grace, and spirit. He does not need a door or window to enter our soul; He is always within us. His majesty enlightens the essence of the soul. We need not search for Him outside; the Holy Spirit is always within us. When we feel the presence of this Holy Spirit, we tend to feel exultation, or seem overcome, by the uplifted feelings; by allowing these feelings to recede, we see before us lighted paths that lead to greater and greater blessings.
When a soul loves, it knows not how, or whom it loves, or what it desires. God sends this love, unselfishly, inviting us to give it all, helping to light the paths of others whom He blesses, and sharing the goodness of these heavenly delights. When the soul prays in love, it is a beautiful hummingbird flitting from flower to flower; these flowers are other persons. When we recognize these holy gifts, we open our hearts and the hearts of others to receive His favors. We then have a modest taste of heaven here on earth. Loving God, loving ourselves, invites us to love our neighbors. In these ways we fulfill God’s expectation of doing good works in His name.
We receive these gifts continually by the spiritual exercise uniting contemplation with meditation, clearing our minds of all mundane thoughts that trouble our lives. Through this daily exercise, our mind empties itself of our worries, excites our imagination to think that takes us away from God, lighting a path of His Holy Majesty.
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
Jesus says, we must change our ways, we cannot covet. His parable of the rich farmer, amassing so much; he built a bigger barn. This farmer is in us; we accumulate stuff, bigger, more expensive stuff. George Carlin says, when we have too much stuff, we build a bigger house.
Our bodies do not need bigger things. More things, more stuff; only our egos need these. We need to mend our ways, only then can we receive God’s daily bread. Let us amass love, not more stuff.
God is within us, and our souls grow and we expand our love for all. Our growth is unlimited, when God is within us. When God is within us, He brings us daily bread, not food, not money, but everlasting Love, everlasting compassion, everlasting kindness.
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
I have travelled far and wide, yet never met thee; journeys have been shared; Your presence ever with me; I have read much about Thee questioning at every life’s page do’est turn; scholars have written about Thee; the ages taught eminently; but I remain so uneducated in what is truth for mere humanity; what was written seems mythical, seems unreal, apocryphal lectern.
They speak of You as a shepherd, a good one we have always known, and they say we belong to You; we are Your sheep from the flock flown; we destroy and we desecrate God’s creation in all we reside; our grace, our faith, our gratitude, fail to grow in Your true home; perhaps You are never truly where we think You perform; perhaps You are merely the myth and not my desire.
As I believe in God, I believe in the love that You doth bring the love that God graces us with freely, of Thee we sing; the myth of Your life is that you know the Father’s dove that this is true for all of us. The meaning being yet we do not learn to cease looking for a king; I know thee by Your name; Your name is Love.
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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