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Old 01-27-2009, 08:29 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I have been very very tired from getting used to my new schedule, and it's seems that my friend's lives are all falling apart lately, and I've been a sounding board for them and I've been feeling overwhelmed and have run out of things to say...but then I came across this and it pretty much says it all.

Thought that I'd share:
I Am There

By James Dillet Freeman



Do you need Me?



I am there.



You cannot see Me, yet I am the light you see by.



You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice.



You cannot feel Me, yet I am the power at work in your hands.



I am at work, though you do not understand My ways.



I am at work, though you do not recognize My works.



I am not strange visions. I am not mysteries.



Only in absolute stillness, beyond self, can you know Me as I am, and then

but as a feeling and a faith.



Yet I am there. Yet I hear. Yet I answer.



When you need Me, I am there.



Even if you deny Me, I am there.



Even when you feel most alone, I am there.



Even in your fears, I am there.



Even in your pain, I am there.



I am there when you pray and when you do not pray.



I am in you, and you are in Me.



Only in your mind can you feel separate from Me, for only in your mind are

the mists of "yours" and "mine."



Yet only with your mind can you know Me and experience Me.



Empty your heart of empty fears.



When you get yourself out of the way, I am there.



You can of yourself do nothing, but I can do all.



And I am in all.



Though you may not see the good, good is there, for I am there.



I am there because I have to be, because I am.



Only in Me does the world have meaning; only out of Me does the world take

form; only because of Me does the world go forward.



I am the law on which the movement of the stars and the growth of living

cells are founded.



I am the love that is the law's fulfilling. I am assurance. I am peace. I am

oneness. I am the law that you can live by. I am the love that you can cling

to. I am your assurance. I am your peace. I am one with you. I am.



Though you fail to find Me, I do not fail you.



Though your faith in Me is unsure, My faith in you never wavers, because I

know you, because I love you.



Beloved, I am there.
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That is a good one Merlo Thank You for sharing it
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I love that poem, thanks for sharing.
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Empty your heart of empty fears.

When you get yourself out of the way, I am there.

You can of yourself do nothing, but I can do all.

And I am in all.
Thanks, NMM

This part really spoke to me tonite.
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Old 01-29-2009, 02:14 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Though you fail to find Me, I do not fail you.
Though your faith in Me is unsure, My faith in you never wavers, because I
know you, because I love you.
I love that poem too, especially this part that reminds me that no matter how much I screw up, or get lost or question...God is always there for me, just waiting for me to turn to Him"

Thanks for sharing this today, it was nice to wake up to.

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