Encouraging Words, Scripture, Quotes, Poetry

Scripture, quotes, and messages that inspire the God breathed Word into life

Light Up Your Life

While God used festivals and feasts to gather the people together and teach them about His character, Jesus used the elements and symbols from the feasts to help the people understand Who He Is and What He Offers. These feasts served to allow people to gather together to remember, recall, reminisce, and learn. While attending …

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The Hum of Sacred

The universal communication of God is not limited to human languages. Don’t limit your deep understanding of our Divine Creator to just words, whether read, spoken, sung, or heard. From the thankful peeps of a rescued baby bird to the wind rustling through the forest leaves there is a certain whisper of a lesson waiting …

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To Gather ~ Together

Something happens every Spring by the lake that doesn’t happen any other time of the year – new life, new flowers, new leaves, and, the most exciting of all, the new babies. It’s like nature knows, without being told, that it’s time to come to life. At dusk, a fox and her kits can be …

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The Nature of Life

The Fibonacci (spiral) Sequence is One of the most famous mathematical formulas and has been called “Nature’s Secret or Universal Code”. It is said to govern the dimensions of everything from building the Great Pyramids to the intricate coiling of octopus tentacles. Spiral arrangements show up in nature from rose petals to the galaxies to …

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Becoming

We are all “working” towards Becoming something in this life whether it’s building a successful career, striving to be the best horseperson, sacrificing personal dreams for the kids, President of the U.S.A., Olympic gymnast, retire to the forest… Whatever it is you aspire to accomplish – Does your hard work to “Become” align with your …

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Tending The Seeds

The mustard seed is known as one of the tiniest seeds on earth. When planted, nurtured, watered, protected from weeds, fed the right nutrients in soil, and receives abundant sunshine the plant grows strong and tall to withstand the storms, hail, winds, and pests. The large green leaves provide food. Birds can even nest in …

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St. Basil the Great

“Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won’t be ashamed of, laying out the Truth plain and simple.” 2 Timothy 2:15 (MSG) St. Basil the Great, orator, writer, theologian, and tireless laborer of pastoral care on behalf of Christ. He became cloaked with the mantle of the defender of faith. During his life …

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A Deep Sense

“Jesus taught spiritual truths through everyday things the people could relate to in life. He had a deep sense of mission and the courage to tell of it in a language the crowds could understand and remember. Yet, he dealt with the crowds from an other-worldly perspective by way of parables, predictions, healing, calling out …

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Name That Tune

Cells, Sounds, Vibrations, Frequencies; the music of our bodies are designed to seek health. God designed humans and all living creatures in such a way that even our heartbeat, pulses, breaths, and movements are in synchrony. When we hear a favorite song on the radio our whole body comes alive with vibrancy. Do you know …

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