Daily Bread – 02/22/12

“Having a mentor is unequivocally the one thing that all successful people I know have in common.”

- Ryan Blair

who went from gang member to millionaire

Your Specialness in God’s Eyes

By Chris Shoaf

The Christian Science Monitor

To read more click on the link below:

Your specialness in God’s eyes

Daily Bread

February 15, 2012

Rise Up and Walk

(Matthew 9:2-7)                    

6,6,8,6

Rise up, O man, be strong,

And walk with footsteps sure;

Leave error off, the night is gone,

And Christ has made you pure.

Rise up, O man, behold

The Name of names demands

Your heart and mind and body whole,

Healed by His precious hands.

Rise up, O man, and work

With surety of mind;

No longer can you duty shirk,

With deeds to do in kind.

Rise up, O man, and praise,

And walk forth with your might;

Lift high your banner, anthems raise,

In tribute to the Light.

© Reverend Paul Lachlan Peck

Footsteps Along the Path, iUniverse, 1987, 2006

To Injure No Man But To Bless All Mankind.

Mary Baker Eddy

Daily Bread – February 8, 2012

On Eagle’s Wings

You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord,

Who abide in His shadow for life,

Say to the Lord, “My Refuge,

My Rock in Whom I trust.”

And He will raise you up on eagle’s wings,

Bear you on the breath of dawn,

Make you to shine like the sun,

And hold you in the palm of His Hand.

The snare of the fowler will never capture you,

And famine will bring you no fear;

Under His Wings your refuge,

His faithfulness your shield.

And He will raise you up on eagle’s wings,

Bear you on the breath of dawn,

Make you to shine like the sun,

And hold you in the palm of His Hand.

You need not fear the terror of the night,

Nor the arrow that flies by day,

Though thousands fall about you,

Near you it shall not come.

And He will raise you up on eagle’s wings,

Bear you on the breath of dawn,

Make you to shine like the sun,

And hold you in the palm of His Hand.

For to His angels He’s given a command,

To guard you in all of your ways,

Upon their hands they will bear you up,

Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

And He will raise you up on eagle’s wings,

Bear you on the breath of dawn,

Make you to shine like the sun,

And hold you in the palm of His Hand.

And hold you in the palm of His Hand.

—

Daily Bread

Above the mist and clouds of mortal woe

We enjoy the light of Truth

Realizing the beauty that

Life and Love bestow…

In all spiritual reality

There is beauty

That cannot be obscured or covered

By mist nor clouds….

Let’s rise above…

Rise above where beauty abounds

My thoughts sore enraptured

Fetterless and free up to Thee

Oh Lord of grace & beauty

Let us begin this year

Knowing all is well

As our consciousness of Love

Sores higher and higher above

The mist and clouds of mortal woe…

Written  & submitted with love on behalf of the transgender community by 

                                                     Mary Hind

At this time my heart pours out to those in dire need.  Mere words cannot save, but sharing openly and honestly is the key to healing.  Remember what I said a while ago about the importance of the word "HOPE"?  Sharing is HOPE and it’s done through deed of love.

Please do post my input on the Emergence web page.  It would be an honor being a part of sharing with HOPE and…

…Love,

Michael Bergenheim

Hi everyone!

It has come to me to share something as several of you have done so lately.  I am deeply inspired and thankful for your insights and openness to your stories that are so vital.  Those are surely healing with progress made along the way!  Thank you!!  The past couple of days I have pondered on my experience within the first months of my relationship to Thomas as I had relocated to Germany.  That was in Spring/Summer 2002.  

While riding on a streetcar, being on my way home from work, there was an opportunity to sit quietly.  I can remember being alone in that car and took advantage of deep prayer.  My inquiry was how I could have that relationship with a man and not a woman?  I must have slept for a couple of minutes, but loudly and strongly came within the echo of Galatians 3:28′s "There is neither Jew not Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."  That was an awakening, or the turning point, if you will.  That said to me very clearly that I was His spiritual ideal: made in His image and likeness.  I have been sticking to that, but not as if  that quote would merely be my salvation!

This morning I curiously opened to The King James Bible to Galatians and read the whole of chapter 3.  I was in tears!!!  WOW!! That was very moving.  I was so eager enough that I had to look this up in J.B.Phillips’ The New Testament in Modern English and read its Galatians, chapter 3.  I opened the book and landed right on that page without any effort!!!!  A clearer language of that particular verse reads: "Gone is the distinction between Jew and Greek, slave and free man, male and female–you are all one in Christ Jesus."  Then I read the whole of chapter 3.

I feel so comforted, knowing there is no condemnation as we are in Christ.  

Being on this side of Truth is very hard to watch, witness and feel saddened at the behavior of the officers of TMC.  My Association was in Virginia this past weekend.  I did not think of it.  I didn’t miss it.  There is nothing personal about those meetings.  What’s important is the desire to be on the side of Truth, Love–God-ordained.  It’s as close as feeling lonely from organization, but the reality is freedom in Christ.

Love,

Michael Bergenheim 

Vancover, BC.