A Different Way of Looking at Inclusion

I need you. Yes you. Ultimately we all need each other to be the best, do the most good, and understand more. Everyone of us is a puzzle piece to an infinite puzzle whose picture is evolving to reflect our creator. I ultimately don't make sense without you. And you me. Like a cell in the body, I may seem to have boundaries and qualities all my own. But they only are relevant when working in conjunction with all the others around me. I can exist, and do things, and even have some success at it. But in the long run I am a part, not a whole. And God is the designer. He made us to fit in.

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It has always annoyed me that my iPad auto corrects the word “love"to the word "live.” I frequently have to go back and change it. But it strikes me now how profound this really is. To love is to live. So why not interchange them? God is Love and He is Life. To have eternal life is to have eternal love. And we cannot have eternal life without the love of Jesus. So go ahead Apple and auto correct my love to live. You simply remind me of the power of love.

Your sky, today, Lord speaks to me of joy awaiting. There is a winsome call, from the break in the gray overcast lit with yellow, that life and light is here. My eyes stay fixed on the beauty and iridescence of the light, only giving a nod to the thick gray blanket all across the remainder of the expanse above. This is how I want to live my life. That brilliance peeking through is real, and generates from the warmth and radiance of something bigger than all I see below. It seems foolish to keep my eyes on anything else.

Amidst the royal blue painted across the sky, the brilliant orange band stretches to accent the sunrise. The colors of the early dawn soothe the soul, in remembrance of the One who never leaves us without a touch of His beauty. Keeping your eye on the lookout for the rising sun, in its glory, balances the darkness of the night; as seeking out the beauty in the people around you balances the disappointments that accompany all relationships

You get to direct your eye.

With each new day, a unique sunrise

The bright pink stripe across the sky just above the row of houses, ushers in joy and beauty. The hope of the day hidden within, it rises into the the blue, blending to a pinkish-gray. Soon the beauty of the brilliant pink dissipates and the gray possesses the expansive ceiling. But the memory of the brilliance remains, breathing energy to soar, like the bird swiftly flying across. A few moments with God in the morning, can lift, carry and propel us through…