singing your own song

Spiritual resource to share: your voice

Last week, I visited a church during their Wednesday service.  In the audience, there were members of a four generation family with the little three year old representing the fourth generation. 

Throughout the service she played and stayed close to her mother.  But when it came time to sing, she SANG!  I think she sang "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" loudly and happily while the rest of us sang a song from the hymnal.  But she was singing and, most importantly, she was singing with us.  And not only was that important, but it made us all laugh as we sang along.

Each of us has a song to sing, a reason for living, and a unique purpose that each of us individually can fill.  Singing out who we are, what we love, singing out our joy - that kind of harmony blends with others all the time.  We need not be afraid or timid about who we are.  God made us, in His/Her own likeness, and God's work is never undone, is always good, and we are forever a part of God's symphony of Love.






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a love song for the day

Spiritual resource to share: favorite love songs

Just wanted to share this gorgeous song with you all.  Click here to get there. Enjoy - and don't forget to share your favorite love song at the end!

K.d. Lang - "Simple" Lyrics  (K.D. Lang/David Pitch)


Flawless light in a darkening air
Alone...and shining there 

Love
will not elude you
Love is simple 

I worship this tenacity
And the
beautiful struggle we're in 

Love will not elude us
Love is simple 

Be
sure to know that
All in love
Is ours 

And love, as a philosophy
Is
simple 

I am calm in oblivion
Calm, as I ever have been
Love will not
elude me
Love is simple 

Be sure to know that
All in love
Is
ours...
Is ours...
That all in love
Is ours 

And love, as 
philosophy
Is simple...
And ours...

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"There is no strength like His"

Spiritual resource to share: song

Sitting in my office, enjoying a cool breeze and a sunny day, I came across this song to share with you today. I hope it inspires you in strength, wisdom and compassion. Enjoy!



For more background on this song and the singer, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, and on the program that produced this Speaking of Faith, click here.




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changes, transitions, detours and diversions

Spiritual resource to share: songs

I have been thinking and working with this hymn all week and wanted to share it with you. I have known this song for years -- even decades!


And I have sung it through all sorts of changes and transitions in my life: going off to college, getting lost in a foreign country, having a baby, having another baby, starting out on my own in a new city, healing disappointment and discouragement....

All in all, it's a wonderful healing poem and song. Enjoy!

In heavenly Love abiding, no change my heart shall fear;
And safe is such confiding, for nothing changes here.

The storm may roar without me, my heart may low be laid;
But God is round about me, and can I be dismayed?

Wherever He may guide me, no want shall turn me back;
My Shepherd is beside me, and nothing can I lack.

His wisdom ever waketh, His sight is never dim;
He knows the way He taketh, and I will walk with Him.

Green pastures are before me, which yet I have not seen;
Bright skies will soon be o'er me, where darkest clouds have been.

My hope I cannot measure, my path in life is free;
My Father has my treasure, and He will walk with me.

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The OPPE of praise

Spiritual resource to share: gratitude

Every Sunday School class of mine goes through a praise phase. There is so much in the Bible about praise, it is worth at least a major focus!

Consider many of the Psalms and the beginnings to many of the Paul's letters in the New Testament which start with praise and gratitude:

I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers.

So why all this about praise? My Sunday School kids helped me break it down:

• Praise opens our thought to more and more of God's goodness.
• Praise purifies. Nothing can enter into a heart full of praise.
• Praise protects. Constantly affirming the reality of God as good automatically denies evil a place for activity.
• Praise establishes us. Acknowledging God, we are actually acknowledging who we are as children of God. Our inseparable relationship to God remains intact.

To remember this, we referred to this as the OPPE of praise to which they added more attributes of praise: it helps us acknowledge God, remember good, love others, etc. Whether this is done in the stillness of the morning, the quiet of the night or in the middle of an active day, praise is as nourishing and uplifting as the air we breathe!

For more on gratitude and love click on here and here and here for other fellow healers' comments. And for a rousing, inspiring blast of praise, click on the picture above or below of the Soweto Gospel Choir. Wonderful.

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