Category: Christianity
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My Jesus Isn’t Like Yours
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash My Jesus is not like the picture of Jesus that is hanging in the Sunday school classroom. My Jesus does not have silky red and white robes with perfectly combed hair, a perfect complexion, and smiling looking up heavenly with crystal blue eyes. My Jesus is dirty from his travels…
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Missing Part
Photo by Ed Robertson on Unsplash There is something inside every Christian that causes us to realize that this world is not enough. There is nothing here that we can latch on to that fills that forever empty spot in us. The constant longing for something we can’t even describe. That is the often called “God…
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What is Prayer?
Photo by Naassom Azevedo on Unsplash I have been thinking about prayer. I say things to people I know like, “I will pray for you.” or “Prayers ascending.” Most of the time, almost all the time, I stop right then and say a prayer for that person in my head and heart. If the timing is…
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You Could Miss It
Photo by Jake Melara on Unsplash “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”~ Ferris Bueller Decide that today is your day to stop. Stop doing what you think you must do, what others demand that you do and what you really do not want…
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Who Am I? I am a Believer.
What do you believe in? As for me, I am unapologetically a Christian. I believe in love, pure unconditional love. I believe in respect for the dignity of every human being. I believe in home as a place of peace. ~Lori O’Gara
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With Me
Photo by Jonathan Knoll on Unsplash Holy Spirit, Come in this place and fill every corner every space. Hear my prayer, my cry my soul’s one desire. To be near you…to be filled with you…to experience your glory. This is my cry in the dark and in the depths of my heart. I am broken and…
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Prayer Is Real
I know it is hard for some people to believe that God really listens to prayer. I mean if you think about it how does it happen that God can hear each and every prayer said, thought, breathed by every praying person every second of every day? Reminds me of that scene from Bruce Almighty…
Lori O'Gara, Author 