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Sleeping Dreams

by rkcdlitt

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.

by rkcdlitt

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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Do We Know God’s Way

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I know him as teacher! He came to me one night; I thought I was dreaming, but perhaps I wasn’t. he came to me in a still small voice; I listened; I listened carefully! He asked what I could do to be closer to God. I could not answer! He asked again, how can you intentionally practice being closer to God. I was confused, so my first response was to say that I suppose that I would have to reset my life and start with a new perspective, perhaps looking around me and recognizing that I am not alone, I am a part of nature, and nature is a part of me. I cannot thrive unless nature thrives. This teacher then reminded me that I was first made to tend His garden. . . and listen for His word.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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Spiritual Journey

by rkcdlitt

Rise each morning, always with a prayer to God on our lips. Usually, for me it’s a prayer of thanksgiving for a beautiful life with my wife of 57 years. Then I eventually get around to the prayer of healing for those I know in need of the help that only God can give with the understanding that all help ultimately comes from God. I ask God for forgiveness for everything that I have not done nor what I am unable to do for those less fortunate than I am. I may have been a teacher or working at another low-wage job, but that really does not excuse me for forgetting that in my spiritual journey, I cannot forget or overlook others.
We must forgive others! Even those who we try to care for and need our forgiveness, for, in our daily lives, we do hurt each other, unknowingly. This is why we all need to forgive each other. God reminds us in our prayers that forgiveness of all types always heals. . . heals others and heals ourselves. When we forgive, God fills us with gladness in our hearts for everything we are blessed to experience. Our spiritual journey becomes the picture of Love that God creates for us live by in our daily relationships with others. We are all part of God’s Spirit.
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Humbled in the Presence of Finches

by rkcdlitt

Come with me; step into my spirit of love and imagination for a minute; come with me across the bridge from false beliefs to the land of love, peace and beauty, where a community of true freedom is daily life. This is the place where I am real because we are real. Our eyes are wide open to the Love of God all around us. God see in all of us, all through us, all above and below us; God protects us, walks before and behind us, keeping us safe wherever we go. God gives us a capacity to love as strong as a piece of bamboo, very strong and more pliant than we could ever imagine.
May Love find you and may you be humbled in the presence of finches.

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Doubt

by rkcdlitt

Doubt brings vulnerability! Dare yourself to open up to this vulnerability and ask the question, “What’s next?” Only then can you open yourself to the openness of your spiritual journey. Dare to hope! Listen for the Good news! Over and over again, even when you can’t see the way, try, overcome that darkness, see the light.
God doesn’t look at us with doubt. She looks at us with love; she looks at us with deep love and compassion for what we have achieved in life. We are who we are because of God, and it is because of God that we can accomplish what lies ahead; there is no room for doubt.
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If Only

by rkcdlitt

I look at the world and wonder, on a daily basis, if only. Then I asked myself if only what? What am I looking for? There is so much out there that could change. Look at the person on the street making a home where I fear to go. And I used the word fear because I’ve never been there. Jesus went there. Unafraid! He lived with the poor. He lived with the sick. He believed that in them. He knew he had to live with those people. Those people. My people. My brothers, my sisters, truly less fortunate than me. Like Jesus, I know who’s out there who needs help. But I fear going there. If only. Two very powerful words. Teo words that dare us. To go where we don’t want to go. If we could shine some light on that passage, we might try; however, it is the darkness of the nights and our ignorance and the madness of those areas that we refer to as “if only” that scare us. Scare us away from working with those that need our help, that we know who we are out there, waiting. . . just waiting for us to turn and see.
If only.
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.


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Disconnection

by rkcdlitt

Unfortunately, we are trained to be disconnected people. All of our heroes in life are go-it-alone supermen who conquer all the villains that life throws in front of them, who then hop in their vintage cars and drive off into the sunset. Many of our books and most of our movies have the same theme.
We have this theme because in reality our life is a series of burdens and uncertainties that disappoint us in our shallow, uninteresting daily lives. At some point, whatever our employment is, the joy and gloss is torn off to reveal the toil and mundane existence of the boring everyday existence of modern life. In our hearts and minds, we gradually deteriorate to a state of nothingness and joylessness that looks for any excitement it can find. Our physical world cannot give us this excitement forever.
The light in our hearts must rise out of this mundane state allowing others to share in the will that God has put in the very core of our being that other people can observe and share, seeing the joyful difference, but realizing the similar internal feelings in their own very beings. When it does, this light from our hearts, that we all share, bears the image of God, raising us out of the mundane existence of human drudgery that no longer needs the artificial movie hero we formerly worshipped.
We have overcome the enormous of influential disconnection to the message that Jesus taught so long ago and still teaches today, Love, God’s unending Love is always with us and outlasts all of our troubles, connecting us in infinite Love.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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Interrelationships; Work of the Lay People

by rkcdlitt

Do you see that person standing in the back of the crowd? She’s the one who is always sitting alone, many times hiding her face, too shy to speak her voice. Those few people who know her say that she has a very gentle heart, a very caring heart. When she speaks, she speaks with authority about the plight of the oppressed; she cautions that God wants us to value and respect people of all traditions and cultures equally. She laughs when she says that we should be a part of humane-ity. We should love one another as Jesus says. Could she be called by God to be our leader with her too-gentle heart? She offers God’s Grace fully and often, could her wholeness suffer the cruelty of our harsh world?

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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Intolerance or Tolerance

by rkcdlitt

We (society) live in a world of choices, and sometimes our choices seem to sneak up on us (society) and tell us we have made a serious mistake. The terrible part of this is that we (society) are unable to change what we have done. We can be completely intolerant and blame it on the “other guy” (our neighbor). After all, it was his fault; he was the one who caused all the problems in the first place. Or, we can be tolerant, and roll up our sleeves and work together to fix the problems as they come along.
Our first goal is to find a common place to start. We know that place; it has been laid out before us; it is within us; God has shown us the way. The lighted path will encourage us to work together to accomplish the work the must be done for us to be in control of our own lives. If we work together, we can gain control of our individual lives as God desires us to do. We have maximum control of our lives; not for the material goals of more money, but maximum control of life, true life, the life that matters, not the one constantly reaching out for material wealth
The work God wants us to do, we can do together; it is non-adversarial; it is non-counterproductive, if that is such a word. When we work together to reach a fuller and richer life according to God’s wishes (and remember, they may be different for all of us), the result is a fulfillment not just for each individual but for society as a whole, Therefore the subject of tolerance versus intolerance really does not arise , since the fulfillment is the richness of each individual’s life.
I have always believed that a full life of prayer and love will take us a long way to avoid intolerance in our world. Let us hold this spiritual truth in our minds as we walk together on the individual paths of our lives.

©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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