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Prayer for God's Love and Compassion

  Prayer for God’s Love and Compassion Sept. 24, 2025 God,  I am tired. Tired of showing up to the same old dysfunction, and expecting it to be different. I am tired of having to figure ‘it’ out, because no one is communicating clearly and directly.  I am tired, God. God, are you listening?  Jesus practiced patience and compassion with the people he met, healed,  served, loved.  I don’t feel very much like  imitating Jesus today, God.  I need your patience, so that I don’t slap anyone today.  I need your compassion, so that I meet the ignorant and stubborn with gentleness.  I need your healing for my own heart because:  I - -Judge -Condemn -Snark, Snap and Bite. And this is towards the people I say I love.  God, I am tired of my own shortcomings and failure to love as you have loved. God, help. Copyright 2025. Tori grant
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WHY ?

Why do I keep pursuing the dream of having a creative career making beautiful things that tell stories of faith, hope and love?  Well, why do anything?  Because I was created to be creative.  I can't help it.  It's the way I am made. God and I have had many talks about this.  God's gifts come with complications and I am not the first creative person to know this truth.  I can see in my head how several things could be combined and made into another thing (assemblage). I enjoy all of the creative outlets I have tried over the past decade of playing with materials.  Felting, fibers, sewing, painting - it is all fun.  I enjoy having options. I enjoy trying an idea in one medium, and if it doesn't work, I can change to a different medium.  Some ideas work better in paint, some in felt, some in assemblage.  Having options is also a highly-developed trauma response based in the need to be in control (or at least have the illusion of control)....
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THE "LAST SUPPER"

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  The Passover/Last Supper - part one of several. Two things from the Olympics have garnered an interesting amount of pushback this past week. One is the inclusion of biological males in direct competition with biological females. (See Quillette 's essays for why this is harmful to females and female sport.) https://quillette.com The other is the outrage from Christians about the at best weird and at worst sacrilegious portrayal of "the Last Supper." And as the best way to prove that we christians are serious about our faith is to post memes, the memes have abounded.  "Let's flood the internet with the REAL Last Supper!" was the most recent call to actions from someone in my feed. Hm. The REAL Last Supper apparently is THAT one. You know, the one painted by Leonardo da Vinci, circa late 1490's.   "The Last Supper" is one of those terms that doesn't appear in the Christian New Testament Gospels but it has become an accepted phrase for Y...
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