Daily Dose of God’s Glorious Love

5/27/2022 The rocky shores of Maine are part of me Or am I really part of the wave beaten shore Does my heart beat in time with the waves Or the crashing thunder of the rocky shore Is my life widened by the Promenade view With the width and depth of the Atlantic Or narrowed by Portland streets like Alder With a life of poverty making a soul sick A biological father who left to not return Not knowing if not wanted or uncaring What part does this betrayal fit in me How harmful was this betrayal bearing Caroline my sister dies of pneumonia So young, her life was hardly begun Preston my brother entered life dead His tiny life before beginning is done Dad from West Virginia comes to our aide Marries my Mom and chooses me as son Later to West Virginia this Mainer does go A new chapter of my life has now begun Do not feel I belong to either family I am not either a Preston or Ramsey Lost and alone even with a family Not Pr

5/26/2022 Prayer is my breathing You in my Heart and then You breathing out. Prayer is a friend enjoying time with a Friend. Prayer is God finishing your sentence and beginning the next one. Prayer is unloading my guilt, fear and sin onto He who already bore it. Prayer is "bringing the pains of earth to heaven’s door." Prayer is at its best when you run out of words. Prayer is when You hug me and I can make You smile. Prayer let's God peel the scales of self from my eyes to see others and their pain. Prayer opens me to see the glory of God rather than the power of evil. Prayer let's me touch people around the world with the power of God. Prayer makes me homesick for heaven, a place I long to be. Prayer is telling God before anyone else. Prayer is releasing Gods' holy power into a fallen and broken world. Prayer is the source of power, grace, love, faith and hope in Jesus Christ. Prayer is humbly admitting I can't and that I need God. Prayer i

5/25/2022 Hope Is a four-letter word Is needed by everyone Comes from the cross Helps us keep on  

5/24/2022 Grief Grief tears like a knife Bringing sorrow and strife It rips at our inner heart Shredding us each apart Tears burn bringing pain Brought about by sins stain What can we do to stop This pain causes us to drop On our knees we must fall Is this the end of us all Fear makes our heart cold Will we ever grow old With age also comes fear Age brings pain very near Left alone death of love Is there really hope above Grief makes an anger burn From God can make turn What can stop my rage Going from stage to stage Is hope ever really there Does Someone really care Questions come in the night Never answered by our fright  

5/23/2022 The clouds slide by constantly changing from shape to shape as they merge and slip apart. Colors change from an angelic glowing white to a gray at the bottom to an angry black lit by lighting within them. Sun, moon, stars and even the calming shade of blue are hidden as the clouds wink them away. We are at the mercy of the clouds to see beyond our planet and the expanded gazing at creations expanse. But the clouds themselves are a window to creation as we gaze at the fluid motion and see creation is also fluid as even the mountains flow by wind, rain, ice and sun. Clouds are a promise of rain and of God's rainbow promise the floods will not overwhelm our world again. Clouds can remind us of the hope and grace of God over us each day.  

5/22/2022 Sunday has come again and some may think this is a time to ‘refill’ our lives with hope, grace and strength but this is the opposite of the truth. Throughout this last week God has surrounded and even enveloped you in every blessing needed and many wanted. (Except those wants that are harmful.) Sunday is our time to gather in thanksgiving, praise and worship ac know ledging God’s power, love and faithful. We do also gather and ask God to bless those in need but to be able to ask in the strength of faith we first need to ac know ledge and be humbled by who God is and our desperate need for Him!!! (The reason know is in bold is to recognize so we can acknowledge all God has done we much seek and come to know what they are!) T his is a combination of my Hope and Grace Journals. Blessings “ We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing” To cry out to God what we want Him to hear Will we know when we receive His blessing Or to us a horrible curse will it appea

5/21/2022 Hope surrounds you and God will reveal God will open eyes if we to Him appeal This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope. Grace surrounds you and God will reveal God will open eyes if we to Him appeal From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.  

5/20/2022 Today some will say TGIF, Thank God It’s Friday! But the need for hope and grace does not lessen on any day. For many in our world grace and hope are needed with each breath. Take time this weekend to pray those who need hope and grace will discover it surrounds them. This will not sadden or wreck your weekend. Thinking and praying for others can help you discover grace and hope surrounds you and your family. T his is a combination of my Hope and Grace Journals.  

  5/19/2022 The last couple of weeks have been a time of pain like I have not experienced since I received my spinal stimulater. With severe pain the ‘demons’ in our lives are set free to wreck havoc. You are not alone. Even if you do not believe in God others going through it and many, like me, pray for those who go through the same thing. I wrote this years ago and I realized expressing your pain does not make you weak but can even help strengthen others. Where did I go wrong When did I forget the song Forgot the way how long Used to be so strong When I sang the song But now all is wrong Been weary so very long No longer I belong Been away too long Need a very new song Strength to sing my song Been weary too long

  5/18/2022 Today I was supposed to meet with my group but it could not be held. It is funny how much I missed going. How much I missed them. But maybe it is not so unusual. We are a group who have joined together to war against the struggles in our lives and under duress and warfare people can become close. That is my thought on hope and grace. T his is a combination of my Hope and Grace Journals.

5/17/2022 Grief is a terrible thing to face. Once while watching one of the hundreds of families I knew going through grief I angrily demanded to know why it is so painful when someone dies. God’s reply was quiet and simple. “ You were not created to go through the loss of someone you love because I created you to live forever. ” I realized grief is the result of our fall and sin. I was humbled. I was indeed grief stricken. The hope is since this is not a ‘curse from God’ we can receive comfort from God!!! This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope. Grace is God’s answer to our death by offering grace through Jesus Christ. Even our being kicked out of the Garden of Eden was grace. Can you imagine what would happen if we were able eat of the tree of life? By now the earth would be full of warehouses of those wanting to die but could not. From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.  

5/16/2022 Need love More than things More than food More than water More than air Need love Words of pain Word of fear Words of stain Words so dear Love explodes Knocking down walls Expanding lives Pushing out hearts Crumbling fears Destroying hatred Growing Charity Crashing doubts Exploding Love  

5/15/2022 Yes, it is about hope again. We must not get bored talking about what is important. Have you lived without hope for so long you no longer know what it is or even that you miss it? As the saying goes “Don’t lose hope!” This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope. If you have a hymnal look at how many songs sing about grace. Grace is essential to all of life including all of Creation. We talk about nature and natural but nothing is natural since the fall. Grace allows Creation to flow along even though horribly broken by sin. Grace truly is amazing!!! From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.  

  5/14/2022 Hope lives even today Worn thin by the fray Fear like wolves in the way Causing us from hope to stray Left to weaken every day Hard by hope we must stay Jesus Light from night to Day Hope renewed by the Way

5/13/2022 Is hope important to you? If it is, where do you find hope? How do you allow hope to work in your life? Is hope an absence of fear or despair? This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope. Is grace really possible? Can people actually treat others with grace? Why does there seem to be a shortage of grace shared with others? From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships. Seek answers and you will find them!!!  

5/12/2022 Hope is not ignoring the bad in us and surrounds us. Hope is found in knowing who and what we are and as the song by Bill Gaither says “ the One who knows me best loves me most .” In your bad see God’s hope and grace waiting for you to discover. Here is one of my pains and the hope I have. My children hurt my children ail As a father I do fail My children cry my children sad As a father I am bad My children grow my children go As a father I was slow Forgive me Father I have sinned Be their Father in the end  

  5/11/2022 Over the years God has used many different groups of people to encourage hope in my life. The times when I struggled the most was when I did not have a group of men I could share and care with. The source of all hope is God but others can also help us discover the hope which is already there. This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope. God is the not just the founder of grace but is grace. God’s plan is for the grace we receive to be shared with and to others so grace will be revealed even to those who do not know God. From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships. Receive hope then share hope Receive grace then share grace Do this for the glory of God Do this out of love for God

5/10/2022 Have you ever had a song you could not get out of your mind? All of a sudden you would be singing it and even worse at times you sing it out loud. With others around. Yesterday it was a Christmas song and I wondered why a Christmas song in May? That brought hope and grace to mind. With Christmas (Christ in the flesh) we see the promise to Adam and Eve fulfilled with the birth of Jesus and the hope of so many billions of people came true. Hope was made sight in the baby Jesus who came into our cold dark world to be our Light! And now we have the hope Jesus will return and set everything right!!! This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope. With Christmas the seed of Easter is planted and through grace the hope becomes that God’s grace will purchase us from sin so we can be part of God setting everything right!!! From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.  

5/9/2022 Orchestra Music rises high and low Seeds of life it does sow Learn things need to know As into life you do go In harmony may life grow Passing on all you know Seeds of life you must sow In life’s concert you will flow  

5/8/2022 Sunday is a day of hope. God’s children gather to celebrate their hope because “ Jesus died for us while we were yet sinners .” This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope. “ Jesus died for us while we were yet sinners ” defines grace as we can have life because Jesus died in our place for our sin! Grace really is amazing. From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships. Today is Mother’s Day and it is a time to remember those who made such a difference in our lives. But always remember for some their mothers and fathers made a terrible difference in their lives and were the source of so much pain, humiliation and suffering. I wonder if that is why God commands us to “ honor ” our parents rather than to love them?

5/7/2022 Why Why is a question we ask It keeps us from our task In pity we do like to bask So a question we do ask God’s fault we do ask Our fault we don’t ask Does God care we ask Why care we don’t ask No longer in pity do bask No more questions ask Where should I go can ask To get you to appointed task  

5/6/2022 Have you ever wondered if you have been so bad God can no longer forgive you? My Father-in-law would respond “if you can ask if you have lost your salvation you have not lost your relationship with God. Only when you no longer ask or care can you know you desire the world more than God.” Ask. Please ask. T his is a combination of my Hope and Grace Journals.  

5/5/2022 I will try to remember this correctly. “There are many do’s and don’ts in the Bible. We try to not do the don’ts but we still do them. So maybe we should spend our time doing the do’s and then we will have less time to do the don’ts.” Or as I remember in a song “accentuate the positive” . I can almost hear people saying this is too simple and that is why I often miss the Gospel. I try to make everything harder when it is God desires who redeems us and makes us worthy to enter into God’s presence with praise and then to do the do’s to bring glory to God. In my life I failed at the simplicity and lost the Gospel in trying to be rather than receive and giving too much room to the negative – the evil. Please do not make the same mistake I did and receive what you do not deserve from the God who still cries “ Where are you? ” T his is a combination of my Hope and Grace Journals.  

5/4/2022 How have you discovered hope when life seems beyond hope? If you are still alive at least a tiny bit of hope is necessary, so where is it? Even when we think hope is gone look for that tiny seed or grain which is still there. Then nourish it!!! This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope. Over the years I have discovered there are things I can do and there are God things. For Christians or those who are lost grace is a God thing. But an easy way for those without God to know grace is probably what you want to do or be the least! From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.  

5/3/2022 If these entries seem to imply I have got it figured out you are wrong because all these entries are for me and not just for anyone else. They are what I need to hear so I will not forget and fail. When you fall on your face and fanny at the same time (not impossible as I am sure some others have also experienced) you have three choices. One, you can just lay there and let life run over you. Two, you can look down and become what others say you are. Three, you can look up where help, hope and grace is found. T his is a combination of my Hope and Grace Journals.  

5/2/2022 Some days it is hard to write about hope and grace. Or should I say harder. There are days – even weeks where grace and hope are somewhere just beyond sight. But I cannot, must not forget to stand again and see them around me. Some say victory is getting up one more time than you are knocked down. But maybe it is just getting up. Getting up now. T his is a combination of my Hope and Grace Journals.  

5/1/2022 Today is Sunday and many see this day as a ‘little Easter’. On Sunday we see part of hope fulfilled and an eternal grace as death is redeemed into life. Today we celebrate God does not give life, light, love and so much more but God IS! T his is a combination of my Hope and Grace Journals.  

4/30/2022 Do I have hope? If not, do I hope in hope? Even more, can I hope beyond hope? This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope. Is grace just being nice? Is grace just forgetting? Is grace just forgiving? What is the grace God offers to you like? From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.  

4/29/2022 When the earth is scorched and there are no crops to eat. When herds and flocks die and meat disappears. When war sounds around you. When it seems evil is overcoming good. That is when you should go to the book of Habakkuk. This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope. To fallen humans grace is impossible but God reveals grace to all even more than He gives it. All can know to offer grace without excuse. From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.  

4/28/2022 As you go through your day is hope part of it? Do you look for hope? Do you seek hope? This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope. Grace is most necessary when we least want to offer it. The Gospel has a clause in it that we are extended grace to the degree we extend it. From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.