Coloring outside the lines and thinking outside the box! Yes we are talking about love again!

Good Evening Family of Love!

I hope everyone had at beautiful Sunday filled with love, joy, and all that was uplifting to your hearts and spirits. I had a busy day at the Faith Factory and then I went to Santa Barbara for the First Annual Interfaith Pride Service. It was a wonderful service that both uplifted our spirits and at the same time challenged us to be better at being loving people and loving family members. Each person I met and had the opportunity to be with is a Child of God. No doubt about it. God made us all a unique and beautiful Child of God who is loved and was planned for before the world was created made in Love. Love is the special ingredient that helps us to color outside the lines and think outside the box. Love is what makes us a family and unites. Love is the key that make us sing with joy and comfort our family members who need soothing musical strains and lullabies ! Love is what brings us together with our partners to make families.  Love is what creates families just like the one we have here at Walk With Me On Our Journey! Love is what creates light in darkness. Love is what brings us out of our shells so that we may be able to help others and speak truth to power. Love is what helps us to create peace and vanquish violence Love does all these things and more. Love is Love! Love always wins! Love always creates never destroys! Love is immeasurable, unlimited, and boundless and crosses boundaries, Love has the colors of prisms, rainbows, sunshine, and each beautiful color in these things fold beautifully into one another as we should gently fold into one another. Love expands our minds so that we no longer think in a confining box that gives us claustrophobia but makes us think out side the box and breathe in the Holy Spirit and Exhale love!  Tonight lovies! Let's celebrate the love we have for one another by doing our Heart Labyrinth and having a bit of prayer time that has a loving theme. 

God give us strength to seek unity with our brothers and sisters who differ from us!
Let us love Them as you Love us.

God help us to be loving towards those who are unloving!
Let us love  our family members as you Love us.

God help us to seek and see you in all of our family member's eyes

Let us love our family members  as you Love us.

God we pray for all the least of these who are in need of our love and assistance

Let us love our family members  as you Love us.

God we pray for all who are in need of a soft place to fall  when they are ill at ease and in mourning

Let us love our family members  as you Love us.

God we pray for peace in this world and an end to violence that infects our family members' hearts.

Let us love our family members  as you Love us.

God we pray for common ground among differing faith communities.

Let us love our family members  as you Love us.

God we pray for good conservation of the world's natural resources

Let us show love for all of Your Cathedral of Life.

God we pray for _________________________

God we give thanks for______________________

A Prayer attributed to St. Francis (From the Book of Common Prayer)

Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is

hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where

there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where

there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where

there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to

be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand;

to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is

in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we

are born to eternal life. Amen.

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Good Night Dear Family I love you! Have a blessed and restful night. May we love all of our family members as God loves us. I give God thanks for you this day and always!

With love that colors outsides the lines and thinks outside the box,

Sara

The Letter to the Ephesians:

Ephesians 1:3-14

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will, so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God's own people, to the praise of his glory.