Planning is proof that you believe
God the Father will move the pieces for you
But you need to plan
Faith is the highest form of planning
Act on your faith and realise that
Planning is an act of faith
Today many have faith but don’t plan
Faith is the one thing you should act upon
Sharpen your skill
Believing in the SON
Will enhance the act of faith
God will help your future so
Act on your faith
Planning is proof that you believe
God the Father will move the pieces for you
But you need to plan
Faith is the Future being told to the present
Mark Frank
I sit and observe our miniature Poodle, Daisy, and our Yorkie, Sunny.
They are the youngest of my fur babies. Of all four, I love them the most.
Do the other two know how I feel about them?
I suspect that they do and love me anyway.
Daisy and Sunny have a way of completely relaxing in their
All white and mixed brown selves. They will lie, asleep, on their backs,
One with front paws in a relaxed crook, while the other covers her eyes
As if to keep them warm. Or safe. Both are amazing acts of trust.
How did they learn that ease? That complete act of faith
That shows that they are so safe with me, with their surroundings
That they leave themselves exposed in that most intimate way?
It takes people, me, for instance, time to grow out of the trust
We feel as young children when we just know no one can ever hurt us.
But oh, once we learn how not to trust, it takes much too long to get
That easy feeling back again.
So I will guard my Daisy and Sunny
so nothing, and no one,
Can ever hurt
Their hearts.
O MY (ETERNAL) GOD
I firmly believed that You are one (Eternal) God
In three Divine Persons
(Eternal) Father
(Eternal) Son
And (Eternal) Holy Spirit
I believe that Your Divine (Eternal) Son became man
And died for our sins
And that He will come to judge the living and the dead
I believe these and all the truths which the Holy Catholic Church teaches
Because You have revealed them
Who can neither deceive nor be deceived
Amen
Is Calvinism the cousin of Providence
And Mystery the brother of Fate
Does Liberty relate to Religion
And do Laws protect or berate
Can Unity support Division
Or Loves opposite other than Hate
Can Truth be hidden from leaders
and multiply the problems we face
Can Time be suspended
By the simple act of Faith
Can Salvation find the Needy
Before it is too late
DESCENT AND ASCENT
Down here amongst the mud and weeds
Now I know where disappointment leads
All life’s chances are as a string of beads
And if explored or ignored, one by one
Whether cold ice or warmth of the sun
Each leads us to take a step up or down
Down is an easier path that one can take
A simple choice that all might just make
The outcome looks tempting, yet is fake
A descent into what appears to be good
But in reality, is a watery neighbourhood
Down here, cold and lost in the darkness
Up is ever the greater challenge it seems
As an act of faith among various themes
Yet always more than the stuff of dreams
Finally reaching that tall mountain peak
So beautiful a view one can hardly speak
Grateful for the selection that was made
It is said each bead connects to the next
Bad decisions do leave one feeling vexed
But good guidance can be found in text
Yet even if one has started their descent
There will be a choice at the next event
So up or down, just try to enjoy the ride
When you feel your pockets empty
and your stomach treats you cruel,
someone will read beyond your eyes
and see the proudest fool.
I met him somewhere in the past,
when he was passing through,
I can’t forget the act of faith,
and what someone chose to do.
Maybe someday the wheel will turn,
he'll be where I now be.
I'll be picking out a proud man’s face,
who once was fair to me.
She left the tent in holy fervor,
Hell-bent to spread the Word.
The Spirit moved and made her quiver;
No act of faith was too absurd.
She knocked on doors, she spoke with zeal,
Her faith she shared in earnest.
There was no doubt God’s love is real:
His justice is the sternest.
I asked what other gods contend
For space inside her pretty head.
Might Yahweh, Allah or Shiva rend
The veil between gods ‘live and dead?
Do you beseech the Norse god Thor,
Once favored by the common folk?
The Son of Odin is heard no more.
What power broke that yoke?
For love there was an Aphrodite,
For war the Greek god Ares.
Athena’s wisdom eclipsed the mighty,
As Apollo‘s virtues the Virgin Mary‘s.
Though long I queried with due respect,
She unyielding kept her patience.
“On Jesus only I reflect;
To Him I owe allegiance.”
One god only fills her life -
It severs her from me.
I trust in reason, yet love my wife
With faith in one less god than she.
Mothers crying,
Infants bleeding, brothers flooded,
An act of faith.
Is there wisdom of the ages?
Thoughts many on ancient pages.
More than one interpretation.
Choose big bang or God's Creation!
For Julie-Michelle's contest "Unanswered Questions"
Many purport to know the answer however we lack eye witness account, so each belief requires an act of faith.
I can’t stand aright my Lord!
All I want to do is fall.
These burdens Lord on me!
What can keep me through it all?
I cannot see the answers.
I’m a blind man on the way.
My only hope and refuge,
Is when I lean on you today.
Leaning is an act of faith.
I can’t see what’s holding me,
But in His presence I have known
The Holy Spirit’s deity.
I have no remedy or answers
For all the grief and pain in you,
But I know the arms of Jesus
Are strong enough to see us through.
When I am at my end,
I find new hope reborn;
When I am in the Lean of Faith,
I’m held till I am Home.
Two men went to spy Jericho
Before Israel conquered it;
They lodged in Rahab's house,
She hid them on her roof.
Their only means of escape -
A line of rope that led them down the wall
To safety.
They embraced that line of rope red,
They embraced life.
Rahab, a not-so-honourable woman of Jericho,
Feared the God of Israel;
She hid those spies,
She saved their lives
By giving them that escape rope -
Their lifeline.
When she wanted to save herself and her family,
They gave her the same rope
Of safety.
She embraced that line of scarlet thread,
She embraced life.
From my childhood, I've read such stories,
True stories of faith and life.
When I wanted solutions to my problems,
I got the same lifeline
For safety.
And when I embraced these lines I read,
I embraced life.
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{Rahab got her name etched in history (Matthew 1:5) by this act of faith. She is one of the four women mentioned, in whose line Lord Jesus Christ took birth}
{Her story is found in the book of Joshua 2 and Hebrews 11: 30,31}
When trouble looms
We often turn inward
We’re grateful when others take us to medical appointments
Bring casseroles
Provide job leads
Our prayers may focus on asking for faith
And Strength for ourselves
Yet when Jesus knew His time had come
He prayed not only for Himself
But for all of us
That Eternal God would continue to hold on us tight
We would continue to embrace Him
It is a stunning act of faith
Considering how a change in our lives
May affect those we love
To remember to pray for them as well
Stepping outside ourselves
In time of Personal crisis
May be our ultimate sacrifice
To be human
Man’s response to Eternal God by faith must be free
Therefore nobody is to be forced to embrace the faith against his will
The act of faith is on its very nature a free act
Eternal God calls men to serve Him in spirit and in truth
Consequently
They are bound to him in conscience
But not coerced
This fact received its fullest manifestation in Father Christ Jesus
Indeed
Father Christ invited people to faith and conversion
But never coerced them
For he bore witness to the truth but refused to use force
To impose it on those who spoke against it
His kingdom
Grows by the love with which Father Christ
Lifted up on the cross
Draws men to Himself
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Alone,
and riding its momentum
out across the chasm
of an unreflecting void,
is Voyager,
its waning, hopeful beep
an act of faith; there lies within,
a particle of us--
ready to embrace the one
who looks inside.
It is a shell of nothingness
without a dream to nourish its long night,
a worthless orb of metal
in a cold black sky,
hope thrown into a phantom alien hand
unseen, unguided, yet unknown to God,
a Flying Hollander condemned
to yet another seven year eternity.
Still not a journey,
no, not yet--a vanity,
until it meets its purposed end.
So, too, is love impossible,
a non-reality, a formula alone
until it is returned.
Like Voyager, its effort laudable,
like stick to fire, indifferent
until it's burned.
And he, without a lover
will not understand:
We do not fall in love--
we love, are loved;
create and are created--
know, and then are fully known.
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We can make a difference
We can wallow in the feat
Where all souls meet
At the foot of the world by which to greet
In bitter silence to its door chime ring,
One can easily take heart or to what would sing;
From shadows glook of its tormented swoon
It would be at the addage of its peril
A safe place to emancipate,
The soul was erected by pious chimes;
In tombs tortured with flagrant rhymes/ Through a misfortune illumined amidst/ Shattered glass stained by bias accalades/ We can make a difference/ Fresh out of our store bought routine/ Out of curtains unleashed to swallow/ The world is filled with ghosts & demons/ Shaped by the imaginative solace screaming/ We can make a difference/ The trunk on the trees on which all branches grow/ The pen on the ink to make messages flow/We can make a difference/ With parts uncertain yet attainable/ Create/ The notion of a bridge of hope/ It's gap loosens for passengers to cross/ Reason must be supplimented by our creative imaginative & faith/ Reason is itself an act of faith!
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