Saturday, October 31, 2015

pain and loss

pain and loss
only the beginning
seed planted in hearts
the soil of our journey
pain and loss
painful seed of toil
of our struggles here on earth
before our heavenly home.

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October 31, 2015
pain and loss

October 31, 2015
painful seed
Ruth 1:1-5
Ruth 1:1-18
quotation: “O memory of a painful time, are you seed or stone?”
from poem, “Healing Harvest”
page xi
Healing Life's Hurts: Healing Memories Through Five Stages of Forgiveness
By Matthew Linn, Dennis Linn
prayer; “We pray that you will find every day of that painful time
to be seed that produces the harvest of the Spirit.”
devotion for October 26, 2015
read October 26, 2015
&
 “Seed or Stone”
for October 26, 2015 to October 31, 2015
by Roger Scholz
Upper Room Disciplines for 2015

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