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12-18-2008, 08:37 PM
Blessings on a Marriage
May the sun of many days and years shine upon you;
May the love you have for one another grow and hold you close;
May the good true light within you guide you on your way together;
May your dreams come true, and when they do not, may new dreams arise.
In the words of Leo Tolstoy, may you each bring more love and truth into this world,
and may your marriage be the instrument that sustains you in this task.
And long, long years from now, may you look at one another and be able to say, "Because of you, I have lived the life I always wanted to live - because of you, I have become the person I longed to be."
- Cynthia Reed, Wedding Celebrant
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Dear Heavenly Father, I am thankful that You are a compassionate God and a defender of the poor and needy. Lord, may we also be concerned about the struggles of the poor and reach out and help them. Thank You for blessing me with material blessings and may I reach out and bless those less fortunate than I with my goods. Lord, I also want to share Jesus with those who are needy and poor, because when they know You, they will always have someone to call upon who will never fail them. They can find peace, love and joy in the midst of their circumstances and rise above their poverty and need, because You will never forsake them. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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December 20
Dear Lord Jesus, let me join in the chorus, "Oh come, Oh come, Emmanuel" and really mean it. Let me sing, "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord," and at the same time prepare my heart for You. Let me seek Your forgiveness, as I also forgive others. Let "Joy to the World" be my song throughout this Advent Season ... that others may know that I am a Christian by my love.
In Your holy name I pray.
Amen.
© 2000 by D. L. Hammond, Permission to copy granted
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Dead and Risen
Colossians 2:20-3:2
Dear Father,
Help me to realize that I have died and have been resurrected with Christ. Break the attachments of my old life and its bondage.
Don't let me live as if life were a matter of keeping regulations - don't touch, don't taste, don't handle - but let me live out of a deep sense of love and loyalty to my Savior.
Don't let me grasp for that which has merely an appearance of wisdom and which might make a show of religiosity but not really do anything to separate me from the pride and lusts of my fleshly nature.
Rather let me seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at your right hand. Let me set my mind on the things that are above, not on things that are on the earth.
In the name of Jesus I ask. Amen.
May the sun of many days and years shine upon you;
May the love you have for one another grow and hold you close;
May the good true light within you guide you on your way together;
May your dreams come true, and when they do not, may new dreams arise.
In the words of Leo Tolstoy, may you each bring more love and truth into this world,
and may your marriage be the instrument that sustains you in this task.
And long, long years from now, may you look at one another and be able to say, "Because of you, I have lived the life I always wanted to live - because of you, I have become the person I longed to be."
- Cynthia Reed, Wedding Celebrant
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Dear Heavenly Father, I am thankful that You are a compassionate God and a defender of the poor and needy. Lord, may we also be concerned about the struggles of the poor and reach out and help them. Thank You for blessing me with material blessings and may I reach out and bless those less fortunate than I with my goods. Lord, I also want to share Jesus with those who are needy and poor, because when they know You, they will always have someone to call upon who will never fail them. They can find peace, love and joy in the midst of their circumstances and rise above their poverty and need, because You will never forsake them. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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December 20
Dear Lord Jesus, let me join in the chorus, "Oh come, Oh come, Emmanuel" and really mean it. Let me sing, "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord," and at the same time prepare my heart for You. Let me seek Your forgiveness, as I also forgive others. Let "Joy to the World" be my song throughout this Advent Season ... that others may know that I am a Christian by my love.
In Your holy name I pray.
Amen.
© 2000 by D. L. Hammond, Permission to copy granted
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Dead and Risen
Colossians 2:20-3:2
Dear Father,
Help me to realize that I have died and have been resurrected with Christ. Break the attachments of my old life and its bondage.
Don't let me live as if life were a matter of keeping regulations - don't touch, don't taste, don't handle - but let me live out of a deep sense of love and loyalty to my Savior.
Don't let me grasp for that which has merely an appearance of wisdom and which might make a show of religiosity but not really do anything to separate me from the pride and lusts of my fleshly nature.
Rather let me seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at your right hand. Let me set my mind on the things that are above, not on things that are on the earth.
In the name of Jesus I ask. Amen.