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A Child of God Awakening to His Love

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  • 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
  • Mary DID Get to Know, Luke 1-2
  • NOT SPEAKING speaks VOLUMES, especially for “About to meet Jesus-ers”
  • Set Aside for LOVE – for Parenting and Teaching the “About to Know Jesus-ers”, Luke 1-2
  • Fear or Faith? BOTH!!! Teachings for Us and for Our Dearest Don’t Know Jesus-ers, Luke 1-2
  • Teachings for Us and for Our Dearest Don’t Know Jesus-ers, Luke 1-2
  • What? Jesus!
  • Make Use of the Time Your Given!
  • 999, One Upside Down at a Time
  • Thankful for Today
  • A Thanksgiving Praise Poem
  • Jesus is Prince of Peace
  • KING OF KINGS
  • Alpha and Omega and Everything in Between
  • A Daily Double of Life and LOVE
  • Don’t Trade Victory for Just Surviving
  • Oooohhhh, to be in the Midst
  • Not Without the Word, 1st John 1
  • God’s Busy Business, John 5
  • Pause before you Pitch, Remember to Reach, Reminisce, then Recycle or Restore
  • Living in the Mom-Moment-Momentum, a Tribute to my Friend
  • Good Internal Housekeeping – Paul’s Letter to the T – 2nd Corinthians 13
  • Caught Up to Heaven or Thorned on Earth – Paul’s Letter to the T – 2nd Corinthians 12
  • Spiritual Wars Abound – Paul’s Letter to the T, 2nd Corinthians 10-11
  • The 67 OPEN REFERENCE of Paul’s Letter to the T – 2nd Corinthians 6,7
  • A Cheerful Giver and the Cheerful Receiver, Paul’s Letter to the T – for Life in Harmony, 2nd Cor 8-9
  • Paul’s Letter to the T – for Life in Harmony, 2nd Cor 2
  • Paul’s Letter to the T – for Life in Harmony, 2nd Cor 5
  • It’s All About the Knees (and Garden Photos that Please), Psalms 30 and 29, Praises Divine
  • Please Pleasing God
  • Paul’s Letter to the T – for Life in Harmony, 2nd Cor 4
  • Paul’s Letter to the T – for Life in Harmony, 2nd Cor 1
  • Paul’s Letter to the T – for Life in Harmony, 2nd Corinthians 2-3
  • WOW – Give God Props!
  • Growing Community – The LIGHT of Jesus, Sermon
  • Legacy in Life, Longevity in Life Ever After
  • Smile a Halloween Smile
  • Peace and Love, Pierre Robert has gone to Peter’s and Jesus’s Care, 30OCT
  • Jesus Prays! We Can Pray Too, part 3, John 17:20-26
  • Jesus Prays! We Can Pray Too, part 2, John 17 6-19
  • Jesus Prays! We Can Pray Too, part 1, John 17 1-5
  • Abundant Life – Not Perfect Nor Simple, John 10:10 and 25
  • Be a Birthday Bee
  • Born at the Right Time
  • One Day More – One More Day
  • Written Word Jesus! A Revelation of LOVE Forever!
  • The Judging and the Jealousy in Life, and in the Book of Acts
  • Whose Watching??? God’s Kids of All Ages!!!
  • Shine Like Stephen! Acts 6-7
  • Book of Acts, in Acts, as a Great Place to Start, Find and Use BOLDNESS from the Lord to SHARE the Lord
  • To SEE, KNOW, PRAISE, LOVE and BE
  • AI or My Eye – What Will God Lead To?
  • My Peace will Come to You – Keith Green and Us… Be Matthew 5 Salt and Light
  • Living Serving Behaving Blessing UP – Romans 12
  • Life Rhyme, Grind, Rewind, and Don’t Mind
  • I HAD a HAMMER – Sharing “Love Between My Brothers and My Sisters”, Now and at End Times, and Especially in October at Warm 60 degrees!
  • Hectic Life, because I’m not here just for the cleaning, I’m here for God’s Loving!!!
  • SHARE for SURE – the Bible is for Sharing…
  • Time MANagement vs Time GOD-meant
  • The Lord Delivers, AUTOMATICALLY
  • WHEW LORD! A Poem of Praise!
  • Sunday Sermon: Reconciliation in Community
  • With LOVE and TRUST – I Caught the Outside Kitty!!! God is Good!
  • Trust in God, ONLY and REALLY, 1st Peter 1 and Psalm 103
  • Trust in Deep WELL-NESS
  • Trust in OK
  • Trust in the Morning but Trust in the Lord MORE
  • Treasure in Travel
  • Harvesting Hallelujahs
  • Be Engaged
  • Watch for God All the Time
  • If You Give a Me a Moment – I’ll Marvel, Psalm 8
  • Intervention by Invention, Genesis 1 on…
  • MOVING FORWARD! Get up and Go and Cling to What is Good!
  • To Muse Use Excuse
  • Fishing for Focus
  • TRUST not Trap, Even when Catching a Cat
  • FILLING MY CUP
  • HOLY SPIRIT CHILLS THRILLS SPILLS
  • WHOA, WOW, WITNESS
  • Out of Service and LOVE
  • Summer is Fleeting, but Jesus is Enough
  • Sunday Sermon – Community and Communion
  • The Imperative of Love – September Community
  • 9-11 Remembered
  • September 11th Saints and Sinners Alike
  • Don’t let Faith be Jelly when You’re in a Jam
  • The Word to be Heard
  • Hug Jesus Forever
  • Shredding Vegas – Perfecting Vegas
  • Praying Vegas – Slaying Vegas – Staying Vegas – LOVING VEGAS
  • Howdy Spirit Holy Spirit Views
  • Donny Osmond Tops Off Vegas Better than Anything! Thank God for Donny!
  • Familiar Faces in New Places
  • Surely We Can TRUST God, Especially on Vacation
  • Bankrupt? No Baggage? STILL GOT HOPE !!!
  • Like Joshua, God is FOR us, God Works Through Humans
  • Like Joshua, God is FOR us – God Fights for His People
  • Like Joshua, God is FOR us – God Keeps His Promises
  • Jesus by Trust Alone
  • An Expressive’s Expressive Poem
  • Remember When God Got You Through
  • Know God’s Grace Embrace
  • God Knows and God Loves Anyway, Psalms 94 and 34
  • ADAPT for THIS SEASON
  • What Now? Watch for God !
  • USE OUR CROSS WALK
  • Watch Out for Witness Warp
  • You’ve Got to Give All GOD’S Got
  • Soaked in Schedules
  • My Sunday Sermon – Faith Like Children of God – in the “God’s LOVE” series
  • And to Dust We Return, UP!!!
  • John 3:16 More Than Just a Football Sign
  • Looking for a Holy Spirit SPARK to START!
  • No Sourness in Jesus
  • Footloose and Fancy Free? Not Quite Me…
  • A Soothing Summer Solace Poem
  • A Sunday Morning Prayer for Building Trust in the Lord
  • ‘Cause right then, God showed up.
  • Restore and Repeat, until Matthew 24 Happens
  • EXACTLY
  • Realizations of Jesus-Rescue Experiences, Sharing the Saves NOT the Causes… Joshua “Fear Not”
  • Sight UNseen, Salvation and Being Surrounded by God
  • Hallelujah! Ocean Grove!
  • God Partnership – Him with Us and Us with Him
  • A Poem to Process and Praise, Psalm 30
  • Tough People Need Your Jesus Love
  • How About Tomorrow – How about Today?
  • Without Love We Would Be Nothing
  • What is IN the WORD? JESUS!

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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Don’t take pride in your strength. Be humbled at the Lord’s Strength within you.

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Don’t marvel at your faith in the Lord, Be in awe of His faith in you.

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