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TheBlackJaguar

@TheBlackJaguar

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Posted: 20 years ago

"God is not a super Santa Claus.Mindless rituals are not what God wants from us.He seeks a living relationship with us."

-ESTHER KURIEN in "THE SPEAKING TREE."

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happe

@happe

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Posted: 20 years ago

Thanks for the thought nitica didi.

I think I have a living relationship with God. I believe he is within me, around me, and watching me, and protecting me.😊 I am happy for being in this world among my loved ones.

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maya123

@maya123

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Posted: 20 years ago

yeh, it is more than the rituals....

I believe he wants us to honour the life he has given us.

He wants us to experience whatever lessons our soul has to learn in this lifetime with dignity (they are not necessarily all 'bad')

Thanks for sharing Nitica.

Maya

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mou

@rano

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Posted: 20 years ago

George Herbert (1593-1633)

Prayer (I)

Prayer the church's banquet, angel's age,

God's breath in man returning to his birth,

The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,

The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth

Engine against th' Almighty, sinner's tow'r,

Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,

The six-days world transposing in an hour,

A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;

Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss,

Exalted manna, gladness of the best,

Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

The milky way, the bird of Paradise,

Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,

The land of spices; something understood.

My two-pence about God and the efficacy of praying to Him.

Love, Rano.

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Mini

@queen-bee

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Posted: 20 years ago

Nits, wonderful thought!! I feel God, not only wants a living relationship with us but an intimate one! Intimacy with God is like intimacy with your mate. It's wanting to know Him at the deepest level. It's wanting to be fully known and accepted for who you are. Intimacy with God means a full, fresh, moment by moment dependency upon His grace and mercy. And it grows deeper with time. Believe me it does!!

Mink, who does not believe in rituals!