prayer26 – PAIN AS PRAYER

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pain makes you human

prayer makes you divine

when you pray while in pain

your spirit grows strong

until you can withstand

the greatest pain ever

pain is thus a form of prayer

pain and prayer are the way the Lord

molds you into His image

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eastwind

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when destinies meet

it is never an accident

there are God-sent angels

all around doing the ground work

they have band-aids ready when we stumble

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the final ingredient is simply

our freewill to embrace God’s will

together they are invincible

we act not so much for our own sake

but more for the chaotic world we need to serve

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that we may cook up a breeze

to stop the raging storm

a touch of gentleness to weaken the hatred

to render sages confused

by smiles of school children

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eastwind

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CRACKPOTS ARE CREATIVE

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once in ancient china

a woman carried two pots

to fetch water from a distant well

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one of the pots was cracked and leaked

so that by the time she got home

the cracked pot yielded only half

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for a year the woman did this daily

the better pot complained

and asked that the cracked pot to be replaced

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the cracked pot pleaded

for the woman to spare her

and she did for a reason

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she pointed out that one side of the road

from the well to her house

was full of beautiful flowers

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that was because she placed flowering plants

on that side so that the cracked pot’s leak

could water them

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she told the pots that

her house is now full of flowers which

made her and all who saw them so happy

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she said the cracked pot was a better one

for bringing happiness to a world

which was becoming sadder and sadder

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cracks within us

somehow have spiritual value

if we just try to discover their purpose

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God gave us cracks in places

and made us whole in places

for a purpose not easy to understand

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lifted and rewritten

from a powerpoint by benny a. setiawan

with photos m.f. doddy abdurachman

download the powerpoint from a separate post

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