Father there are so many lies out there in the world, about what love is and how to find it….

Too many people are hurting, and being hurt.  Shatter the delusion and teach us the Truth about love, and how to both give and recieve so maybe another precious woman can get up off her dirty knees.  Father, the world without Your Love is a dangerous place for all of us and everything is out of balance….women selling out giving out wearing out and otherwise dying without ever really knowing LOVE.  Help those who read this to BELIEVE there is a better way, and it is only thru your Son Jesus Christ.  Help woman to see the truth of what the ‘world’ offers her in the name of love, and help her to stand for YOU, and to not sacrifice herself to the enemy.  If every little girl could grow up knowing she was cherished and adored and loved by her HEAVENLY FATHER then maybe those scars and voids from not being loved by earthly fathers would heal.  Maybe if more people would stop allowing the victimization of woman…..and the degradation….and the shame…and the capitalization of womanhood….

Father, thank you for our TRUE HERO Jesus Christ.  Forgive us for looking to man for the love only you can give.  Forgive us for looking for love out of selfishness.  Forgive us for our complacancy…..

Ephesians 3:17-21  That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and lenth, and depth, and height; and to know the love of christ which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Matthew 5:43-48 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Mark 12:30-34 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou has said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
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I Corinthians 13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a hcild, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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I Thessalonians 3:11-13 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: to the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

when you can’t breathe bc you’re so afraid
of the fear that they’ll go away
or get hurt
or die….

and so the thousand mothers hide the tears they cry and stand in the emptiness for the love that is dying to be free

the love between you and me,
my sky girl, my child, my gift my friend my love and me.

and so we keep breaking thru
when we can’t break down

and watch as our feet find higher ground

child, mother, woman and friend, it is time to be
time to stand, surrender, and lend our hands to love
to truth
and peace

love while you can, while the day is still to day
cry when they cry, and laugh til they laugh harder

Michelle