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Calm the Fear, Know God is Near
Clear Your Longview
Pruning Surprises
Removing the Bothers
It’s What’s Inside That Counts
LOVE LOVES ON, Thanks MOM – Thanks GRANDMA
News? Nope. Faith? For Sure.
On Coughing Fits and Eagle’s Wings
A Praise to Start Our Day
Sometimes That’s It
Jesus is Coming Whether You Clean Your House or Not
Take the Time to Study
Let Your Ministry JUMP Out at You
See You On The Other Side
I Know the Plans, Says the Lord, INCLUDE the Lord and Us
Jesus Kisses
Jesus Cheese Us
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Jesus Trust
Jesus Truth, and a condensed form of my awakening story
Jesus Tells – but the Greek doesn’t all translate
Jesus Teaches, Jesus Tells, Jesus Truth, Jesus Trust
Poem for Humility
Open to Work, for the Lord
Sermon 12APR – Walk to Emmaus – Ressurected HOPE
Carrying Out Your Calling Cooperatively
For the Kingdom of Heaven is like Falling Asleep on the Couch, AGAIN
Love to Roam, Lord You Are Home
Love You On the Other Side
Scaring the Life into Death, Jesus Lives!
He Has Risen Indeed!
When I Survey the Wonderful Wondrous Cross
The Road NOBODY Else Travelled, Jesus on Good Friday
A Space for Grace
Walking Worship
Won’t be Boring, Thoughtful Tuesday of Holy Week, Isaiah 52-53
Read the Signs and KEEP MOVING
Shine Where the Lord Places You!
Jesus says WATCH and PRAY, Mark 13
Avoid the Void, Filling Up with Scripture, Mark 12
Have Faith over Frenzy
Sprouting ANEW
By Faith not Sight, Decide to Be Alright
God’s Got This! Don’t Fear!
Angels in our Midst, Special Olympics Polar Plunge!
I Summon Today – Jesus’s Power
I Arise Today – Heavenly Strengthened, Guided, and Guarded
I Arise Today – A Recipe for Believing in God’s Strength
A Hope in Our Abilities, A Trust in the Lord
St Patrick’s Day Prayer – Be a Servant like Christ
Are We MORE than Golden in Christ?
Shall Not Want, Psalm 23
Be the Best We Can Be
YOU ROCK!!! Romans 8
Changing of Seasons, Peace of Place, Psalm 72
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Poem of Ponder and Pause, “Oh What a View”
POWER of CALLING, POWER of CHRIST
Sermon – Don’t Block the Light
Being Bee – Florida trip wrap up
Wow Wow Wow. God’s Gifts and People’s Trust. Day 4 Florida Vacation
Hey Flamingo, Witness While You Walk
Maybe I Could Join the Circus? Florida day 2 vacation
Are We Letting God Drive? My vacation day 1
Be Still, God is With Us, Psalm 46 PLUS
Don’t Overthink It
Imagine in God’s Image and KNOW God Face to Face
Got to Begin (Again), Billy Joel, Lamentations and New Beginnings
God’s Cloud is not a Wisp of Whimsy
The Warmth of the Lord.
Well, Keep Going! Go with God! Jeremiah 29:11
Nestled In, Psalms 46 and 37
Life is a Blur but LOVE Never Changes, 1st John 4
Lost and Found
SET ASIDE
I Knew, I Noticed, I Acknowledged, Jesus on the Journey to the Cross
Jesus – About His Father’s Business – a Lenten Devotion, Luke 2:41-52
Ponder the Lenten Jesus
A Poem of P’s for Peter
DESERVE, RESERVE, PRESERVE, SERVE
Processing Places Praises Prayers and People
Do You Believe in Miracles?
In God We Trust RIGHT NOW
Work Families, God Families, Forever Families
Us and Our Kids – Live Love and Help – “for Such a Time as This”
AI ALMIGHTY INFLUENCE
Sermon – The Body of Christ’s Gifts – Romans 12
God’s Strength for our Frailty, Psalm 90
Existing in a Forever Mindset, Psalm 115:18
Lord of Our Forever, Psalm 136:1
Psalm 142:5 God is our Safe Place
God is All-Knowing, Psalm 139
Psalm 103 Praise the Lord in Everything
Preparing for VBS – Rainforest Falls – Exploring the Nature of God
What is Lent?
What’s Up, Lord?
How Do We Weather Storms, Psalms 91 and 147
Jesus, more than just a Barkeeper Friend
INSTEAD, James 4
Who ARE the Helpers – and What Do They Do? Matthew 25:31-46
Salt and Light Sermon – Matthew 5:13-16
Keep Warm – with LOVE
When You Have the Lord, You Have Everything, Psalm 23
Praise the Heaviness of The Rock, and the Lightness of Our Burdens
Sheltering in God, A Travelog Portion Remembering War
Be Fed, travelog, Matthew 6 – God takes care of us
Notice the Brokenness, Look for God’s Healing, Survive, Now it is Our Turn to SHINE the Light – Travelog
Vienna was an Amazing Time
Plague to Parking Spots, Praise and Prayer is POWERFUL
Start with THANKFULNESS
Even the Crumbs of Faith – Reprise
Getting Ahead of My Head – a Head of My Enemy
Daily Bread and then Some Good Crumbs
The Bible Project: “Old Testament Summary” on YouTube
God’s Goal in not a Game but a Gain – for Perfection
Settling Your Heart into Jesus’s Hands – and Him Lifting with LOVE
Hope is not Wishful Thinking
God Wants You to Know You in Him, Genesis 32
Set Your Mind on Things Above – Blessed Reprise Post to Post – about DISTRACTION
NO DISHES On This VACATION, No Grumbling Either – JUST SHINING, Philippians 2
Magi on the Move, a Prayer for Epiphany
“I’ll do a bit for anybody” but JUST BE YOURSELF
God Knows We Need Structure In Our Lives
HAPPY NEW MEMORIES YEAR 2026! – Luke 2:51-52
Happy New You, Luke 2
Home is Where Your Heart is – so Spread the Love
Divinely Guided, Divinely Warned, Divinely Saved, Matthew 2
Wise Men Watch the Ice Too, Matthew 2
In Infamy and Forevermore
The Countdown Begins, Matthew 1
MERRY CHRISTMAS 2025
This One Shall be Peace, Micah 5 Prophecy of Jesus
God Keeps Us Moving! Jesus in Bethlehem and Nazareth and Galilee – Luke 2, Matthew 2, Micah 5
ASSURED in Order to Assure and Reassure, Anna and Jesus, Luke 1-2, Psalm 103
Sermon: Jesus IS the Light
Behold Jesus, Behold the Hearts Revealed, Luke 1-2
Simeon Sees Simeon Says Salvation’s Son Saves
Poor No More, Praising a Prescribed Purification Petition, Luke 1-2
Today, Ponder our Christmas Jesus, Luke 1-2
Goodwill Towards Men, Luke 1-2
The GLORY of the Lord, Luke 1-2
Not Perfect, but Temporary, Luke 1-2
Register with This Child, Jesus, Luke 1-2
Prophet of the Highest, Luke 1-2
Serving Without Fear, Luke 1-2
A Horn of Salvation – Jesus Came, Is Here, Is Coming, Luke 1-2
Speak Praising God, for ALL to Hear, Luke 1-2
Blessedly VolunTOLD by God, RE-JOY-ING in Rejoicing, Luke 1-2
HUMBLE not ENTITLED, Mary will birth Jesus for ALL of US
Blessing to Those Who Believe, for the “Jesus-Wants to MEET You-ers”, Luke 1-2

From the beginning: awakening writings

Hello world! Welcome!
Prologue to writings
PRE-AWAKENING Faith Questioning “Diatribe”
Christmas Flood, 17DEC #2
Lego Christianity, 18Dec #3
22DEC God Sighting – #4
Mary and Mary, Dec 22 #5
A Poinsettia Prayer, 23DEC #6
Christmas Eve Labor, 24Dec #7
Midnight God Sighting Reflections, Dec 24th- 25th #8
Christmas Decompression, 25DEC #9
Got Myself a Professor! 26DEC # 10
Fathers, Coffee, Journeys, and Soul Cages, Dec 27th #11
Enjoy Every Sandwich, 29 Dec – #12
God of Matter – The Holy Spirit, The Blarney Stone, and my namesake – the Song of Bernadette, 30DEC – #13
Christmas Bug, 31Dec #14
God made me a thinker-er, 02 Jan – #15
Miracle on 34th Street – “I Believe, I Believe, it’s Silly but I Believe”, 04JAN – #16
An Epiphany, 05JAN – #17
email about spirituality 05JAN – #18
06JAN duplicate RE-words – email with Pastor and a friend # 19
06JAN – duplicate heart swelling #20
Wispy, 06JAN – #21
07JAN – emails with a dear friend #22
Rock Age, 07JAN – #23
New Balance, 08JAN – #24
Emails with my professor about bible history, 09JAN – #25
Strike, 10 Jan – #26
Oh the Tears, 13 Jan – #27
Speaking of a Carpenter…, 15JAN – #28
Carpentry, Friendship, Imperfect Snowballs and World Peace, 15JAN – #29
Another Poinsettia, Stress and God’s Healing 16JAN – #30
Rock Climbing and Life Lessons, 17Jan – #31
And God Sent ICE, 18Jan – #32
How I Lost My Religion, 17JAN – #33
Rain, a Floating Rain, 18JAN – #34
Feeding our Church Family, 22 Jan – #35
Wifi, first-second Peter, and Sermons, 24JAN – #36
Climbing Mountains, VBS email #1, 25Jan – #37
Future discussion planned with my professor -25JAN- #38
Told my Pastor – rather he told ME! 25JAN- #39
VBS email #2, 25Jan – #40
Weird Dreams, Snow and Jesus, 26JAN – #41
God Decorated my Christmas Tree, 27JAN – #42
Email from a friend 27JAN- #43
Yoga, Sharing Spirituality and Breathing, 27 Jan – #44
Roll Easter Rollercoaster, 29JAN – #45
If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out – #46
email to Pastor et al, 30JAN – #47
Sir Issac Newton – Email to Pastor et al.., #48 (follow up to #47)
Smiles, 30JAN – #49
email to women’s retreat organizing folks – to L.H. whom I wanted to share my journey with, 31JAN – #50
Emails praising awakening – 01FEB- #51

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Calm the Fear, Know God is Near

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Calm the fear,

Know God is near.

Hold Him in cloudy days and clear.

He holds us close and dear.

We must know that His Love is SINCERE.

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