COMPASSION @ WORK: Feb 10, 2013

February 10, 2013

FMF-TO BARE IS TO CARE

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It is with great pleasure that I put fingers to keys to write here this morning. For one, I have been hungering of baring my soul to blog, mostly for my own benefit for healing and for growing. Another is to thank God for giving me the means to get hold of the net after being cut-off for a while.

The first place I go to, after checking on my mails and my friends' blogs, is the FMF. I love the prompts given by Ms. Lisa-Jo every Friday because it stimulates my creativity and penning my thoughts and inner talks is a healing tool.

So here I come to bare for the prompt is "bare."

How else could one write thoughts and intentions without baring the soul? Of course for self-healing, one has to be true to the pen. And writing the truth in yourself requires courage.

I give thanks to God and to those who share their lives in the open for others to learn.

For me, to bare is to share, and to share is to care. So I urge my dear fellow-bloggers and journal-ers, please blog away or journal to your hearts' content.

Isn't writing like worship? We go to the altar of God bare and transparent, humbly seeking Him in prayer and praise. We come to bare our souls before our Maker and we write our souls in our blogs in the same manner, true and bare.

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I am writing for the prompt of the week FMF-Friday 02.08.2013-BARE. The idea is write as candidly as you can for 5 minutes without over checking on spelling and grammar. Then visit fellow-posts to encourage.

Click on the button and join FMF and find out too what others are saying about "bare." Go, what are you waiting for?

I AM A RECIPIENT OF GOD'S COMPASSION AND DAILY MERCIES
Lamentations 3:22-23
“It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”

Psalms 73:26
"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

Hebrews 10:23

"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful."

Psalm 131:2

"I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me."

..... find gold in grit.

"If words could only speak, they'd mean even less." (English proverb)

"Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves." (Native American proverb, Assiniboine)

"If a wind blows, ride it!" (Arabic proverb)

"Do not hide your light under a bushel" (Danish proverb)

“You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.”
― Max Lucado, The Christmas Candle

“God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus. ”
― Max Lucado

“Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.”
― Max Lucado, Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear

“If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you! ”
― Max Lucado

“When grace moves in... guilt moves out”
― Max Lucado, Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions

I know, dear God, I am a glimpse away from the pearly gates. I'd like the last league of my journey home to be one worthy of your promises. You have been with me, ahead of me, often times You had to carry me, or pick me up from a muddy patch, or gently guide me back on track. Your hand is always there, your love the strongest force in my character. With anticipation I take every step to my eternal home, a legacy you gave me paid for in full on the cross, just as you want me to. My cup will surely overflow........ and I will dwell in your house forever, Lord.

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February 10, 2013

FMF-TO BARE IS TO CARE