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New Years Prayer

Posted in Baptist, Christology, Joanna Fuchs, New Year, Poetry, Wesley Jacob, tagged on WedUTC2008-12-31T23:22:31+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Dear Lord,
In the new year, we pray
that You will guide us each new day
in paths that are pleasing to You.
Lord, the new year gives us another chance
to rededicate our lives to You,
to study Your Word
so that we know right from wrong
and to act in accordance with Your commands.
Thank you for the sense of
direction, purpose and [...]

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I am the New Year

Posted in New Year, Poetry, Wesley Jacob on SatUTC2007-12-29T13:59:29+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I am the New Year. I am an unspoiled page in your book of time.
 
I am your next chance at the art of living.
I am your opportunity to practice what you have learned about life during the last twelve months.
All that you sought and didn’t find is hidden in me, waiting for you to [...]

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Some thoughts for the new year…

Posted in Christology, New Year, Wesley Jacob, Year End on SatUTC2007-12-29T13:36:20+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but [...]

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Year End Thoughts

Posted in Christology, New Year, Wesley Jacob on SatUTC2007-12-29T13:12:15+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was writing my initial draft of this blog on my ‘Year End Thoughts‘ when I heard over the television, the news of the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto which pushes the country to the brink. With a weakened Musharraf, emboldened fundamentalists and political parties in disarray, there is a dangerous descent [...]

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