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I'm all over the place emotionally at the moment (have been for a while now) and at times really tense and stressed out.

So thanks for putting up with my ravings about the Developer on my recent prayer request.

My hubby used to get a regular sickness benefit and we recently had that finish the 5 years of getting 75% of his wage covered by our income insurance was recently finished. We have a small income coming in from a retirement fund which Praise God was able to ...

You might reply God is but at times we do unfortunately get used to and attached to various human provided sources of income or othe ways in which people or human institutions provide for us.

From time to time God strips away the human sources whe have had security in and often turn to first before the Lord.

I am confessing I have become secure in my husbands sickness benefits. They were only 75% of his wage and I had to fight fear to adjust to the lessor amount coming ...

In 1967 the Summer of Love focused the attention of the world on San Francisco.

“Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.”

We’re nearing the fortieth anniversary of that time of new music, new drugs, new sexual freedom, and defiance of old norms. It was “the dawning of the age of Aquarius,” with the promise that the darkness would be rolled back, sorrows would end, and humankind would enter a new era—foolish projections all.

However, the language ...

Give God Your Brokenness


You long to heal the inner man
Where we are bruised and scarred
The memories of the hurts we have
Still linger from the past

We need to give the past to you
So you can begin to mend
The brokenness within our souls
To bring wholeness once again

Lord you see the deepest part
Where others cannot see
And only you can feel the pain
That's there inside of me
...

by Paulo Coelho on December 10, 2007

A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, but its body was too large to get through it. After a long struggle, it appeared to be exhausted and remained absolutely still.

The man decided to help the butterfly and, with a pair of scissors, he cut open the cocoon, thus releasing the butterfly. However, the butterfly’s body was very small and wrinkled and its wings ...