Author: rkcdlitt

retired literature and writing professor; I write spiritual, meditative, and prayerful blogs. My life is devoted to prayer and healing prayer for all I meet.

I Do Not Set Aside the Grace of God

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There are so many things that can and do go wrong in our lives that we need a strong base to support us. This cannot be human or material but must be divine and spiritual. We have this innate longing to be better; lucky we have this wonderful teacher who said, “Not my will, but Thine.” And in the country today, I ask for the Grace of God to go to the children; they are being left behind by our society. I cry for them as Jesus cried for Lazarus and all of Jerusalem. The Romans of our day, our government, have taken all of the resources away from the poorest children of our society. I cry at their loss; I pray for the Grace of God to protect them, to soften the cruel hearts of our government to restore what has been taken from them.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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Sense of Isolation

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I spent many years as a small businessman. A do-it-yourself, analytical person, all alone, no one can tell me what to do semi-successful businessman. Then semi-tragedy struck; I lost my business; during my recovery period, I volunteered doing what I liked, including assisting as a summer swim team coach, where I quickly learned that it wasn’t all about me, it was about them. Eventually, this led to me being a replacement high school swim team coach. After two seasons, I was asked why I never became a teacher. I had no answer, but those in charge at the school encouraged me and within a year, I had a master’s degree in history and began teaching at that same high school where I put my others first belief to work. I told the students up front that there is so much to learn about history that together you and I, teacher and students, were going to learn something this year about history. This excelled for my 25 years of teaching career, first in the high school years, and then in college years of teaching, after I returned to study for a doctorate in literature. I always approached my students, letting them know that we were equals; titles meant nothing; we were here to experience life together; there is to be no isolation in our studies or our lives.
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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True Friendship

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We are what God made us. We think we are weak and flawed, but that is only because society says we are. Let’s put away all the harsh words, all the slander, anger, and bitterness, and remember that our dislike and hatred for another hurts us more than it hurts those we think we hate. In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul writes: “Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.” Can we at least try this first step to true friendship?

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Sing the Human Heart

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I have come to the conclusion that joyful living is always when we are moving toward the light of God’s Love and our love of life. All is love and everything I understand is Love because it comes from God through the goodness of people. I always imagine the threshold of God’s heart shining through us, teaching us to love our enemies, again and again, and again. What a wonderful world it would be!
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If I Have Lived! I Have Learned! I Have Loved!

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The longer I live the more I am convinced that we, human beings, have within us powers close to those that resemble the divine powers of God. they are both beautiful and contain the compassion given to us by God allowing us to be responsible in our judgements toward one another. We make this very difficult with all the societal rules we have built up to block us from opening ourselves to each other’s true selves. God is within all of us; if we allow this piece of pure gold to flourish our love will grow, our wisdom will grow, and our lives will surely be fulfilled. God’s Grace allows this to happen.

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Miracles

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Are we waiting for God to perform a miracle? Do we not know why this is not necessary? We experience miracles every day of our lives if we just take our eyes off our cell phones and look. God gives to us all the time. . . through His healing touch! We are touched by God every day and healed by His touch. The kind touch of another person when we are in stress is God reaching to us. I think the biggest miracle of all is when I wake up to the fact that the person I have argued with and disliked for years is really one that I love like a brother and I must go to him and ask forgiveness for all the times I have accused him of being all the nasty names I called him. If I do receive his forgiveness, I know that God has touched me again, because I know that a kind gentle touch by another human being is the key way that we see miracles. Our connecting to each other in love is often the miracle of God for whom we are waiting.
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The Firefly and the Goose

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People laugh at me,
call me silly –
tell me I’m fat,
like a goose;
but at night a light,
twinkling deep behind my eyes
let’s me flicker from tree to tree
like the firefly I truly wish to be.

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Beauty of Creation

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Spring is right around the corner. Spring, the rebirth of nature, the restart of God’s creation, the creation that never stops creating, is the time when we awaken to God’s perfection and realize that the Earth comes alive all around us. As we look around us this early Spring let’s remember that God makes His home within us, not out there in some distant heaven. If we open our hearts, our families, our communities, and our nations to this love that lives with us, that forms the very essence of our being, our life and our times would be greatly improved. Our life would be as simple as the joy of children playing together.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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Sleeping Dreams

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When we are young, our dreams are full of fantasies. Then the wool is pulled over our eyes and the fantasies are gone. We lose the ability to pray for one another in our dreams. We lose the ability to relearn this task. It should not be a task; it should be an effort of love. But we fear this perhaps because it makes us look weak. But it does not; it strengthens us. Together, it builds a foundation of love that no one can beat. For the structure is strong. It allows us to build on it; on a face that our creator can begin to call each of us by name. And remind us that we are valued and cherished. . . not by a country or a territory or an institution, but by a beloved Being, created by a loving God., given to two loving parents and nurtured by them and raised in God’s image. There is a traditional Scottish blessing It calms our souls. And brings us together as children of God:

Deep peace of the running wave to you,
Deep peace of the flowing air to you,
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you,
Deep peace of the shining stars to you,
Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you.

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God Comes With Love.

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I think about these simple words from Psalm 37: “Our steps are made firm by the Lord when he delights in our way; though we stumble, we shall not fall headlong, for the Lord holds us by the hand.“ And I realize how prophetic they really are for our lives. When we take the time to pray for others, our simple prayers unite our shared beliefs with how we live and serve together in the unity of God’s infinite goodness and shining light.
When we open ourselves to others and share our weaknesses, admit our pain and suffering to our community, we become joined together in God’s beloved community, and when we turn to God and pray, bringing our pains, bringing our concerns, God sees the strength and love of a strong loving community sharing the concerns and successes of life on earth. This is the life that Jesus taught us to live; live in a community of love, generously sharing both successes and humbly sharing pain and suffering, allowing spiritual growth and eternal love to provide for all. Jesus taught that El Olam, the Eternal God was ever present.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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