Your sin can be forgiven.
He will wipe your slate clean and
create in you a new creation.
You can be forgiven
if you believe and profess
with your mouth
that Christ is risen
and Lord of all.
If you ask for forgiveness
and wholeheartedly repent.
And if you have a grievance, settle it
and if you no longer have
access to the grievance
then take it to the Lord.
Then with offering,
thanksgiving and praise
go to the altar
and be still and know
that He is God.
Let his reign wash over you,
for He loves you and wants no less.
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-Gloria Valentine
27.4.14
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23.3.14
My Hope is in the Lord, the Hope of Glory, the author of my salvation, my redemption.
For I recognize that my existence on this earth is so messed up that God and only God can rescue, redeem and restore me.
The King of Glory! Who is this King of Glory? The Lord Almighty. He is the King of Glory.
-Gloria Valentine
Psalm 24:7-10
For I recognize that my existence on this earth is so messed up that God and only God can rescue, redeem and restore me.
The King of Glory! Who is this King of Glory? The Lord Almighty. He is the King of Glory.
-Gloria Valentine
Open up, ancient gates!
Open up, ancient doors,
and let the King of glory enter.
Who is the King of glory?
The Lord, strong and mighty;
the Lord, invincible in battle.
Open up, ancient gates!
Open up, ancient doors,
and let the King of glory enter.
Who is the King of glory?
The Lord Almighty —
He is the King of glory.
Psalm 24:7-10
NLT
16.3.14
"There's a reason I'm alive ..."
one may never know what
God carries into the
darkest crevices of this world
touching a life
with something
another has created
I wish to encourage so many
with personal affirmation that
your time spent creating
works of art, music
poetry and writing
is not in vain
and I need to practice what I preach
and I need to live what I know
for they will never seal
the fissures of my soul
-Gloria Valentine
God carries into the
darkest crevices of this world
touching a life
with something
another has created
I wish to encourage so many
with personal affirmation that
your time spent creating
works of art, music
poetry and writing
is not in vain
and I need to practice what I preach
and I need to live what I know
for they will never seal
the fissures of my soul
-Gloria Valentine
21.2.14
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: If you return, I will restore
you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak noble [words],
rather than worthless ones, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must return to you; you must not return to them.
Then I will make you a fortified wall of bronze to this people. They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you. [This is] the Lord's declaration.
I will deliver you from the power of evil people and redeem you from the control of the ruthless.
Jeremiah 15:19-21 CSB
Then I will make you a fortified wall of bronze to this people. They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you. [This is] the Lord's declaration.
I will deliver you from the power of evil people and redeem you from the control of the ruthless.
Jeremiah 15:19-21 CSB
18.2.14
7.2.14
No matter how hard I try
I cannot hide
the sorrow and pain
you put
in my eyes.
And it is not okay
and I am not "okay".
For all your canards,
your apathy and
your complacency
there is no excuse.
You have become
deluded and diluted.
Fading into your own
delusions of grandeur.
Entangled in the snare of
your own deception.
- Gloria Valentine
I cannot hide
the sorrow and pain
you put
in my eyes.
And it is not okay
and I am not "okay".
For all your canards,
your apathy and
your complacency
there is no excuse.
You have become
deluded and diluted.
Fading into your own
delusions of grandeur.
Entangled in the snare of
your own deception.
- Gloria Valentine
23.12.13
A Christmas Past
Standing on the summit with all those who share in my pain and oppression, we cast our eyes to the valley below.
There, camped, are our oppressors. Those who scheme and devise wicked lies against us in order to shame us into despair and hopelessness. Those who publicly rape our emotions and dreams.
Examining their faces, their posture, their every move, we become horrified . . . We recognize each one of them. They are our kinsmen, our neighbors, the mirrored image of those we fight to save. Frozen in fear and confusion, all clarity, knowledge and understanding seeps into the ground below as if an arrow had struck our hearts and we lay bleeding.
And as that last drop of life giving blood trickles down our cheeks we begin to know with a new knowledge and understanding that comes not from ourselves or advice of counsel, but a Knowledge and Understanding that comes from whence the wind blows, and we know we are not alone.
Please pray for me and all those who share in my suffering and oppression as we continue to live in a world consumed with self-interest. That through our faith in one God - the God of Moses, the God of Issac, the God of all - that Peace may thrive in this Season of Advent and throughout all our lives.
May God Bless.
Gloria Valentine
Originally written on December 16, 2004
There, camped, are our oppressors. Those who scheme and devise wicked lies against us in order to shame us into despair and hopelessness. Those who publicly rape our emotions and dreams.
Examining their faces, their posture, their every move, we become horrified . . . We recognize each one of them. They are our kinsmen, our neighbors, the mirrored image of those we fight to save. Frozen in fear and confusion, all clarity, knowledge and understanding seeps into the ground below as if an arrow had struck our hearts and we lay bleeding.
And as that last drop of life giving blood trickles down our cheeks we begin to know with a new knowledge and understanding that comes not from ourselves or advice of counsel, but a Knowledge and Understanding that comes from whence the wind blows, and we know we are not alone.
Please pray for me and all those who share in my suffering and oppression as we continue to live in a world consumed with self-interest. That through our faith in one God - the God of Moses, the God of Issac, the God of all - that Peace may thrive in this Season of Advent and throughout all our lives.
May God Bless.
Gloria Valentine
Originally written on December 16, 2004
17.12.13
9.12.13
Thoughts on Tillich ... The courage to be.
"True worth is in being, not seeming."
- Alice Cary
To be "cut off from creative participation in a sphere or culture"*. To be cut off from what was sustaining and conducive to one's creativeness by external forces beyond ones ability to control or change resulting in "anxiety of meaningless ...the loss of that which gave meaning to all meaning."*
The danger that results, should that which once cut off one from creative participation is removed, is that one now finds themselves in a present period that is so different from the period before the initial cut off, that even though now free to go back to that which was conducive and sustaining, one finds those things no longer exist or are now no longer relevant. Tillich gives the example of artistic expression before the industrial revolution and I would add that possibly more recent, pre-9/11.
"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt."*
Could it be said that throughout history, those unnamed souls who find themselves collectively in such time periods are the ones who carry the torch throughout the darkest moments of man's existence? That those who live their lives in a non-transitional period, live and create in times of unknown/unrealized luxury while those who exist during periods of transition are the unknown/unrealized pillars and light bearers - keepers of the flame - of human existence, both creatively and spiritually?
-Gloria Valentine
*"The Anxiety of Emptiness and Meaninglessness" from "The Courage To Be" - Paul Tillich
- Alice Cary
To be "cut off from creative participation in a sphere or culture"*. To be cut off from what was sustaining and conducive to one's creativeness by external forces beyond ones ability to control or change resulting in "anxiety of meaningless ...the loss of that which gave meaning to all meaning."*
The danger that results, should that which once cut off one from creative participation is removed, is that one now finds themselves in a present period that is so different from the period before the initial cut off, that even though now free to go back to that which was conducive and sustaining, one finds those things no longer exist or are now no longer relevant. Tillich gives the example of artistic expression before the industrial revolution and I would add that possibly more recent, pre-9/11.
"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt."*
Could it be said that throughout history, those unnamed souls who find themselves collectively in such time periods are the ones who carry the torch throughout the darkest moments of man's existence? That those who live their lives in a non-transitional period, live and create in times of unknown/unrealized luxury while those who exist during periods of transition are the unknown/unrealized pillars and light bearers - keepers of the flame - of human existence, both creatively and spiritually?
-Gloria Valentine
*"The Anxiety of Emptiness and Meaninglessness" from "The Courage To Be" - Paul Tillich
27.11.13
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