Author: Higher Up IDEALS
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Citizens of the Spiritocracy
As I have lifted up many times in other sermons, in the Lord’s Prayer, we pray for God’s kingdom to come and for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. We are literally asking for God’s Way to take precedence in the working out of our lives. In other words,…
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So Help Me Dog
A little more than two weeks ago, our family dog of 15 years, Journey, whose painting is on the above video, died. Since that time, our family has shed our fair share of tears. Yes, some of them have been tears of sadness. But most of them have been tears of joy that we were…
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Transforming Our Roadblocks to Serenity
Serenity? What is it and why is it so hard to achieve? And once we find it, how do we hold on to it? In our time together, Pedro Silva will engage participants in a reflection on the idea of serenity and why it is a worthy focus in our journeys of faith. Leaning on…
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Our Guardian Whose Art Is Heaven
Originally posted on It's All In Me – Poetry Blog: Our Guardian Whose Art is Heaven On this and every other plane Thanks for calling us into being And holding us in Your Name We seek to find your Kingdom We live for it to come A world beyond division Where all are known as…
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Expressing the Invisible God
I’ll never forget what my instructor said to the class on my first day of military tech school for satellite communications. “In order to do this job well, you have to be able to see the invisible.” He went on to introduce us to the world of frequencies and throughout the course explain the nature…
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The Sin of Overprotection
“Thou shalt not protect. Said No One Ever As I’ve been doing the work of intentionally reshaping my ministerial calling to becoming a non-anxious presence, a lot of things have been coming up for me—areas of tension that I want to surrender to the “Non-anxious Way”. For example, recently, I’ve been wondering what my life…
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Juneteenth – Liberation Takes a Holiday
“What do you mean there’s no Juneteenth Festival here?” Like ignoring Daylight Savings Time and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it seemed like Arizona was on its own page once again. Growing up with festivals that celebrated African African Heritage such as Juneteenth and Umoja Festivals in the Hampton Roads area of VA, I was…
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Chronophobia: Escaping the Prison of Time
For the person who wants to live forever, Time is not your friend. I don’t mean to sound morose. But if we’re being real—as it relates to time—if life were a prison, we’re all on death row and Time is the warden and executioner. It doesn’t matter what you have or don’t have, how long…
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Strong Too Long
…Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but God said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,…
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God’s Plan
Originally posted on It's All In Me – Poetry Blog: it started in the beginning it ended in the beginning the Peace and the war the losing and the Winning the time we have to wait the weight that comes with time the Word and the verse the pentameter and the rhyme the Hope for…
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