In our daily meditations
we should add one thing,
start a prayer journal.
Write a prayer to someone
or write a prayer to God.
Do this with love
for God knows
our inner thoughts and cares
and in our prayers
we bring God closer to us
and to those we love.
D’not be shy.
God Loves us; and
God gives us the
words for our prayers.
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book.
When you embrace grace, you embrace God’s love, including all people who are Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, humanist, and atheist, pagan, including the hidden humanity of those Christians who beg your patience for one more second who have long forgotten the civility and patience of Jesus. When you embrace grace, you embrace the person with leprosy, the unwashed homeless person begging for help on the median of the busy highway, and the lady pushing the shopping cart stacked high with a life full of memories being her only form of existence. Grace is doing for the forgotten what the government and the fancy churches have ignored.
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book.
Oh dreamer, lost in your own world,
what is it that you seek?
You call on Elijah
and others of God’s prophets.
You go to the mountaintop
standing –
waiting –
looking for the guidance that only
God can give,
praying that God will hear;
praying that God will speak.
You offer yourself for 20 or 30
Pieces of silver,
looking –
waiting –
listening.
You leave the mountaintop
disappointed –
angry –
disgusted.
You know not where to look.
Oh, ye of little faith –
Look within you,
where God forever abides.
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book.
I read the Bible. . . diligently. I read the Old Testament and the New Testament. I read the English translation of the Quran. All three are wonderful testament to God. All mention how God blesses man. But then something strange happens. The Old Testament god is YHWH, the God of Israel; the New Testament has the Trinity God (God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit), and Allah is the god of Islam. All pray to “our” God. Are we making God too small? Is not God one God. Can we agree that we merely have a different name for him? Let us not make God small. God loves us all!
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book.
Ripples may be on the horizon
I know not when!
Am I prepared for rough water
In my little boat?
For I have but one power oar,
when I set out on my boat with
quiet water on a windless day.
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book.
I am a retired high school history teacher and college writing and literature professor. In my prayer life, I have attended church since I was a five-year-old in East Orange, NJ. After a tour in the Marine Corps, I was in my own business for almost twenty-five years. During this time, I attended a UCC church in Summit, NJ and served as the chair of the Christian Education program and was a Sunday School teacher for almost twenty years. While there, I became a Stephen minister tending to the needs of those in spiritual need of missing God in their lives.
My wife and I moved to Fredericksburg, VA in 2009 and I immediately became active in prayer ministries. With two others, I helped create a Stephen Ministry at our local Episcopal church. I also helped in the creation of a prayer corner allowing people to offer prayers after our celebrating the Eucharist.
I am now an active member of prayer programs in both churches (NJ and VA). With others I spend most of my day in Bible reading and prayer.
This website is dedicated to prayer through meditations, prayers, and poetry and prose meditations on Love, Faith, Community, and prayer.
I pray that you will be nourished by my offerings of prayer.
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
I don’t have any special knowledge, nor do I have and special insight into what God’s plans are for us in the immediate future. What I do have is patience. Over my eighty-one years God has allowed me to accumulate enough patience to calm my nervousness about the future and await what comes around the corner. It is usually not as bad as expected nor as good as hoped. God has always surprised me with the Love and Kindness I have received. So, my comment in this time of wonder, let us all calm down. We have a Loving coach on our sideline.
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book:
At this time, as we get closer to Christmas, people ask me if I have faith. What they really are asking is what faith or religion I am. Faith, for me, is how you help others freely and open your heart to receive help in return when needed. Faith is giving love and then receiving love, regardless of who is needing or offering. Faith is the most active verb of love that I know .
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book.
Ever walk along a damp forest trail
and wonder at the sparkle and the
beauty of the shiny rocks on the path?
They sparkle in comparison to all the
misty moss surrounding them.
I sometimes feel that this moss is us
and the rocks are Religion,
confusing us in all its multitude
in our search for God.
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book.
There is nothing more peaceful than a cat rubbing up next to you asking for something, we know not what. But we know it is love. I was standing next to the butterfly bush that my wife nurtures carefully each season. There were several big old ugly bumble bees buzzing from flower to flower around it. I recently read how bees and humans communicated, so I just bent over and said good morning, Mr. Bumblebee. I walked back after getting my morning paper, stopped to look at the other flowers in the garden and one of the bumblebees landed on my hand. Just turned in a circle and flew off. I am usually at war with bees, but I took this as a sign of coming peace.
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book.
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