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Eternal Life

by rkcdlitt

I believe we live forever. . .
Is there life after death?
I’ll let you know. . .

in a few years.

I don’t know; some say our soul lives forever.
God bless us if that is true.
Being a spiritualist,

I have struggled

Fighting with this over and over –
But I have found one truth that matters
We do live forever. . . kinda, forever. . .
In our love; our eternal God-given love

The love we first received from our parents –
then we shared with our children –
our children passed this love to our grandchildren;
And so on through the ages.
Yes, I will live forever. . .
through the ages. . . with eternal Love.

I find a sense of calm and comfort in embracing this thought.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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God’s Candles

by rkcdlitt

The morning glows in brightness and song;
with my wife Linda, I face this evil world.
She is virtue; She is integrity!
The evil of the world cannot overcome
the brightness and song of God’s Candles!

Today is Maundy Thursday.
We celebrate with Jesus in brightness and song,
His time with us on earth.
We know He will leave us for three days,
and when He returns, He will bring
the brightness and song of God’s Candles. . .
and place them in all our hearts. . . forever!

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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Believe. . .

by rkcdlitt

and it will be,
wrote Wisdom!B
May I share God
with you?

I am light;
therefore I live;
sit with me
in God’s love.

I am age,
therefore, I dance . . .
through God’s creation, and
it surrounds.

The sunset is God’s.
The robin is God’s.
As is the stream
behind my house.

I could never create such beauty.
I do not have to.
Only God could dream a sunset.
I live the light I am.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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A Life of Service

by rkcdlitt

People ask me all the time how they can have a life of service when they have a job necessary to support their families. People tell me they work 45-50 hours a week and the commute time is 2-3 hours a day. Where is the time for service?
Do they see the unhoused people on the streets? They haven’t chosen to be there. These are people that are also trying to find hope and purpose for their lives. When we forget them, we are forgetting God. Our hands are dirty! Our lives are dirty!
Now is the right time to act. It doesn’t take a miracle to do something about our unhoused brothers and sisters. And it doesn’t take any extra time away from our jobs. A donation here, a phone call there. One of these would be the starting point to help our unhoused neighbors to finding their own way to fulfillment.
We are not perfect. They are not perfect. We cannot solve the issue. But perhaps that one phone call can lift one person. To find the stairway out of nowhere. And lift him up to find his dream. Isn’t that all that God asks? And isn’t that one phone call a life of service?

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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Something Asked

by rkcdlitt

I awoke this morning feeling old. I suppose that’s natural at 82. I felt so shamed to show my age to my son visiting with his family from Georgia. Then I thought. . . my life’s not over. There remains a reason why I’m still alive; why God is calling me to do something. Maybe my “Something Asked” is not finished. And at 82 sitting here at my desk I’m still an able fighter. So, I’m going to charge forward; who cares if I use a walker? My family doesn’t. God doesn’t. God Certainly Doesn’t. So why should I? So here I am. A not so young 82; no, a young 82., realizing that “something is still asked me.”

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Emotions

by rkcdlitt

We feel our need for healing
and the perils rising before us.
The scent of a storm on the horizon
Approaches with a destructive strength.
Our stillness is not emptiness,
our compassion. . . leaps,
we pray for purity and compassion
for the society we inhabit
and our grandchildren inherit.

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Does Anybody Care?

by rkcdlitt

Ultimate reality blooms
daily struggles sing
the core of our deepest desires
fails to invoke my name
the heart of regular life
perhaps too much for us to hope for
shines through the cracks. . .
and the lack
of our generosity. . .
to whom
this sounds like so much like
“I am here. I am here!”

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God Abiding in Our Souls

by rkcdlitt

God forever promises. . .
letting new light shine upon us.
As we wander in the desert of our lives,
we lose the feel of God when we confront
our daily sadness, anger, anxiety, or even joy!
We repress the suffering over the world!
Personal invitations stretch my concern
for God’s all-inclusive Love!

Through deep meditation with God
And dwelling within me as He does with all,
I recover from my selfish covetousness,
remembering that being on speaking terms
with God is bragging, listening is learning!
I believe He rewards all His children
with eternity in His Kingdom of Heaven!

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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God, Creator of All Things

by rkcdlitt

If We Absolutely, Without Question, Believe That God created everything from the entire universe, we see above us at night to the smallest insect we see crawling on the leaves of grass in our yards, then we must know that God is Good. God is above us; God is below us; God is before us and behind us. God created all; God loves all. God is within everything He created. God is within you and God is within me. You and I are blessed with the Goodness of God.
God does not harm or punish what he loves or what He is a part of; therefore, He does not harm us. So, why do we harm and punish each other? Why do we create societies that demand that we have hierarchies that hate the values of each person, if God does not do this? God is not jealous; but our egos create minor selfish jealousies that are harmful to our humanity. We forget the Goodness of God within us. We put more value on the limited short-term wealth than the eternal wealth of God’s Love.
I remember the commandments Jesus reminded us to keep: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12)
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Pray for the Wellbeing of Others

by rkcdlitt

My weakness, God’s power
I look; l search; I learn.
God teaches me to listen. . .
my inner voice speaks golden riches,
for it is His forthcoming through my heart!
Speaking Love to the world
to the wellbeing of all.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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