painful seed – v3

we have hope for a harvest

in fruit of the Spirit

our struggles, our trials,

painful seed in life

of our faith journey

we trust in the Maker

in our loving Savior

we find life from the struggle,

the painful seed in life

of our faith journey

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edited November 11, 2015

painful seed – v3

(merging edits to original and version 2)

edited November 7, 2015

painful seed – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/11/painful-seed-v2.html

October 31, 2015

knowing the way

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/knowing-way.html

Ruth 1:6-18

devotion for October 27, 2015

read October 27, 2015

&

October 31, 2015

seeds of hope - 2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/seeds-of-hope-2.html

October 31, 2015

pain and loss

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/pain-and-loss.html

October 31, 2015

painful seed

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/painful-seed.html

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

https://books.google.com/books?id=G5MF52IGA5kC

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

http://books.upperroom.org/2015/10/26/seed-stone/

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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