CHILDREN OF LIGHT

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUGUST 21^st, 2012

 

 

CHILDREN OF LIGHT

 

In Jesus’ day

He often talked about being

“CHILDREN OF LIGHT”

 

Mistakenly-the people of his day

Thought he meant being “spiritual” was good

And being “earthly” was bad

 

What Jesus was in fact

Trying to teach us

Was to CHOOSE good instead of evil

 

So how can we be CHILDREN OF LIGHT

In today’s world

 

Give someone who can’t get out

A ride to the Doctor’s office

Or to the store to get groceries

Volunteer at a hospital or a rescue mission

Send someone a birthday or a get-well card

Do something good for someone-ANONYMOUSLY

 

There are any number of things

That we can do in today’s world

 

Or we can choose to live selfish-self-absorbed lives

Concerned ONLY with ourselves-our own material goals

Our own sexuality-or our own needs

 

Choose to be a “child of light” in today’s world

 

Robert P. Wallman

10-27-08

 

Ps        “For you were once darkness

             But now you are LIGHT in the world

             Live as CHILDREN OF LIGHT

             ( For the fruit of the light

             Consists in all goodness-righteousness-and truth )”    Ephesians 5:8-9

 

            “But if we WALK IN THE LIGHT

              As he is in the LIGHT

              We have fellowship with one another

              And the blood of Jesus-his Son

              Purifies us from all sin”                                           1 John 1:7

 

            “For you have delivered me from death

             And my feet from stumbling

             That I may walk before God

             In the LIGHT OF LIFE”                                              Psalm 56:13

 

 

            

DRY BONES=BUT THE WORD OF GOD=BRINGS LIFE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

DRY BONES=BUT THE WORD OF GOD=

BRINGS LIFE!

 

TODAY=We have a COUPLE of great LINES=From the PROPHET Ezekiel!=I REMEMBER

Them well=From my BIBLE STUDY DAYS=With my dear friend Cheryl=What says DONE=

Better than a Bunch of DRY OLD  BONES=”Then he said to me’=’Prophesy to these bones’=

‘DRY BONES=Hear the WORD of the LORD’”                                                                                         Ezekiel 37:4

In Hebrew=Hear means=To not just perceive=BUT ATTEND

 

The Lord OUR GOD=Of Heaven and ABOVE=is telling the PEOPLE of Ezekiel’s day=TO ATTEND

To and to=Hear the WORD OF GOD=For the Hebrew people=had ABANDONED=the WORD OF

God=But God did NOT ABANDON THEM=and he does NOT abandon us=in today’s world=

DRY BONES=People of Israel=and all of us TODAY=IN 21^st century AMERICA=NEED to read and

HEAR=The WORD OF GOD=all over again

“He humbled you=Causing you to hunger=and THEN feeding you with manna=Which neither you=

Nor your ancestors had known=To TEACH you=that man does NOT LIVE=on  bread alone=But on

EVERY WORD=that comes from=the mouth=Of the LORD”                                            Deuteronomy 8:3

“LET ME LIVE=That I may praise you=and may your laws sustain me”                      Psalm 119:175

“The LORD asked me’=’Son of man=Can these BONES LIVE?’”                                    Ezekiel 37:3=

YES THEY CAN=They can have LIFE=If they are=LIVING on the WORD OF GOD!=The Word of GOD=BRINGS LIFE!

 

How are you FEELING TODAY?=My Sisters and my Brothers=Maybe losing HOPE=Maybe feeling

LOST and abandoned=Like a discarded=DRIED  UP old bones?=WE do not have to feel that way!=

ALL is not LOST!=Pick up your bible=READ the WORD of God=THE WORD OF LIFE!=and BRING=

YOUR dried up old bones=BACK TO LIFE!=”The Lord GOD=Made all kinds of trees=Grow out of

The ground=--------Trees that were pleasing to the eye=and GOOD for food=IN the middle of=

The garden=Were the TREE OF LIFE=and the tree of the Knowledge=

Of good and evil”                                                                                                                                                 Genesis  2:9

“Therefore I tell you=Do not worry about YOUR LIFE=What you will eat or drink=Or about  your

Body=What you will wear=IS NOT LIFE MORE=than food=and the body

More than clothes?’                                                                                                                                        Matthew 6:25

“In him=WAS LIFE=and that LIFE=was the LIGHT of=ALL MANKIND”                                     John 1:4

 

HEAR the WORD of God=of Jesus=My dear BROTHERS and SISTERS=I read the WORD OF God=

And His Son Jesus DAILY=My Brothers and Sisters==The WORD of God=brings our DRY BONES=

Back to LIFE=The Word of God=Is transformative=IT BRINGS LIFE!

“I will put MY SPIRIT=In you=and you will LIVE=and I will settle you=In your own land=Then you

Will KNOW=That I the Lord=have spoken=and I have done it=Declares  the LORD”         Ezekiel 37:14

“Simon Peter answered him’=’Lord to whom shall we go?=You have the WORDS of=

ETERNAL LIFE’”                                                                                                                                                 John 6:68

 

 

Dear Lord and Holy Father God=We PRAY to you today=To OPEN OUR HEARTS=and our minds=

And to Let=THE WORDS OF LIFE=Penetrate us=Please make OUR DRY BONES=Alive with YOUR

LIFE AGAIN=”Heaven and earth will pass away=BUT MY WORDS=

Will Never pass away”                                                                                                                                  Matthew 24:35

DRY BONES=Come Alive=With the WORDS OF LIFE=From our Dear Jesus=and our

EVER LIVING=EVER LOVING=FOREVER FAITHFUL=Holy Father God!

 

Robert P. Wallman

8-19-2026

 

Ps        INSPIRED=By an article=IN LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Sarah Christmeyer

 

 

SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

 

SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX 

Saint Bernard was a man

Of CHARM=with learning=

And eloquence

He was the abbot of Clairvaux =

A doctor of the CHURCH=and a

LEADING church man

Of the 12th century=and ONE

Of the principal promoters of MONASTI CISM  

Bernard's arrival =

TRIGGERED an unprecedented release

Of monastic energy

In three years=he

Was SENT OUT

At the head of a COLONY

Of thirteen

They settled in Clairvaux 

And created the diocese

Of Langres

He was a leader=

A WRITER=preacher=and

BECAME a SAINT

He PERSONALLY founded  68 monasteries

In Europe

And STILL had 700 monks

Left over=to CALL his own

CLAIRVAUX became the SPIRITUAL CENTER

Of Europe=

And when he died at age 63

There were 339 houses

In the CISTERCIAN COMPLEX

For years on end=he was

ACTIVE in public affairs=and

This lead to a GENUINE CRY

Of his SOUL=for

He was TORN AWAY from his cloister

He WON a GOOD PART of EUROPE

For Pope INNOCENTII=and preached

The SECOND CRUSADE

Which would wind up being

HIS BIGGEST FAILURE

Saint Bernard was CANONIZED

Twenty-two years after his death

And three of his brothers

As well as a sister

EARNED the title=”BLESSED”

His most FAMOUS written

Document was his TREATISE 

On the LOVE OF GOD

And he FOCUSED on the

HUMAN NATURE of Christ=and

His LOVE for the BLESSED MOTHER=Mary

He was canonized in 1174=and became a DOCTOR

Of the CHURCH in 1830

And today=August 20th=

Is his FEAST DAY

Robert P. Wallman

8-20-2018

A BIG BIG GOD

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUGUST 20th, 2012

 

 

A BIG BIG GOD

 

 

Our God

Is a big big God

A God

With a big big love

 

There is room

For all of us

In his Kingdom                                                                                            

The Kingdom of God

 

While we may run out

Of everything else

God never ever

Runs out of love

 

There is room for the Catholics

All the other Christian religions too

And we won’t forget

The Muslims and the Jews

And all the other religions

Because

They are God’s people too

 

Our God is a big big God

A God

With a big big love

 

Our God

Is a big big God

And there is room

For you

 

There is room

FOR YOU

 

Robert P. Wallman

2-4-11

 

Ps        “The Lord loves righteousness and justice

             The earth is full of his UNFAILING LOVE”        Psalm 33:5

 

            “Though the mountains be shaken

              And the hills be removed

              Yet my UNFAILING LOVE for you

              Will not be shaken

               Nor my covenant of peace be removed

               Says the Lord

               Who has compassion on you”                           Isaiah 54:10

 

            “And God’s HOPE does not disappoint us

              Because God has poured out his LOVE

              Into our hearts by the Holy Spirit

              Whom he has given us”                                  Romans 5:5

 

 

Ps        8-21-2019

 

WE ALL WIN=WITH THE LOVE OF GOD=HE IS NOT LIMITED!

 

 

 

 

 

 

WE ALL WIN=WITH THE GOD OF LOVE=

HE IS NOT LIMITED!

 

THE LOVE OF GOD=THE JUSTICE of God=is not that of man’s=How many TIMES=Have you

Heard a person say=”It is NOT FAIR-Because……..”=Well that is EXACTLY=what the workers=

Were saying=IN today’s parable=”IT IS NOT FAIR”=But the LOVE of God=The JUSTICE of God=

Is for us ALL=We all=WIN WITH GOD! And Jesus=If we say YES to him=”So the LAST will=

Be first=and the FIRST=will be Last”                                                                                                      Matthew 20:16

In TODAY’S PARABLE=The LANDOWNER=Hires some people at dawn=Some more at 9AM=

MORE at noon=He then hires  more  MID-AFTERNOON=and the last of the bunch=at 5PM=

And WHEN pay time COMES=THE LANDOWNER decides==He pays them=ALL THE SAME=The early ONES said=”IT IS NOT FAIR”=even though=ALL were paid=What they AGREED to pay for

 

MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS=We all WORK for the Holy Father God and Jesus=and HE pays us=

WITH and IN LOVE=Afterall=He is=THE GOD OF LOVE==He is a JUST God=and If we COME  to him=

At age two=or age 22=We still get the Same reward=GOD’S LOVE=GOD LOVES US all=and There is=

ENOUGH LOVE to go around=Our God=IS FAIR AND JUST!

“He is the Rock=his works are perfect=and all his WAYS ARE JUST=A faithful God=who does

No wrong=Upright and JUST is he”                                                                                                 Deuteronomy 32:4

“The works of his hands=are FAITHFUL and JUST=all his precepts are trustworthy”       Psalm 111:7

“Now I=Nebuchadnezzar=Praise and exalt=and Glorify the King of heaven=Because everything=

He does=Is right=and all his ways=ARE JUST=And those who walk in pride=he is ABLE

To humble”                                                                                                                                               Daniel 4:37

With the GOD OF LOVE=WE ARE ALL WINNERS!=There is More than ENOUGH LOVE=to

Go around!

 

Someone may feel=It is LESS for us=but that person=is SO WRONG=God’s love=JESUS’ LOVE=

And his RESOURCES=are not LIMITED=The KINGDOM OG GOD=Is DIFFERENT than this kingdom

On earth=We could stand=To LEARN some of GOD’S WAYS=With THE FATHER and=with Jesus=

There is MORE THAN ENOUGH=to go around!=IN GOD’S KINGDOM=My Brothers and Sisters=

I will NOT LOSE=Because you RECEIVED something from God=Nor will you lose=IF I receive

Something from God=Our God is a JUST GOD=A FAIR GOD!

“……..He did it to demonstrate=His righteousness=at the present time=So as to BE JUST=and the

One who justifies=Those who Have FAITH in Jesus”                                                                  Romans 3:26

“If we confess our sins=He is FAITHFUL AND JUST=and will forgive us=Our sins=and purify us=

From all unrighteousness”                                                                                                                     1 John 1:9

“And I heard the Altar respond’=’Yes Lord God Almighty=True and JUST=are your

Judgments’”                                                                                                                                                     Revelation 16:7

 

Dear LORD=God above=We your brothers and your sisters=UNDERSTAND that  NONE=of us

WILL LOSE=Because you are GOOD=to someone else=IN the parable today=Jesus Reminds us=

That we are NOT COMPETING for God’s LOVE=God LOVES us all!=No matter WHEN we come to him!

 

WE ALL WIN=WITH OUR GOD OF LOVE!=At 2 or 22=42=or 72=It is Just a matter of saying=

YES to the HOLY FATHER GOD=and Jesus’ LOVE

In Jesus’ name=and IN the name=Of our Holy Father God=who is ALWAYS JUST and FAIR!

 

Robert P. Wallman

8-17-2026

 

Ps           INSPIRED by an article=IN LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Kate Wicker

KEEP YOUR EYES=ON THE PRIZE

 

 

 

 

 

 

KEEP YOUR EYES=ON THE PRIZE

 

EVERYONE=in this world

Seems to get ATTACKED=for

ONE thing or another=INCLUDING OUR FAITH

That included Jesus=and me sometimes

 

But=NO MATTER=what is

Going on in our lives=we have

To KEEP our eyes=ON THE PRIZE

 

And the PRIZE IS=

OUR LIVING GOD OF LOVE

Keep your eyes=on this prize

 

So don’t BELIEVE in false teachers=or

Follow false prophets

 

“……..they PREACH=but

Do not practice”                                                                                                                   Matthew 23:3

 

“So you=MUST BE CAREFUL=

To do everything they tell you

 

But do not do=what they do=for

They do not practice=what they preach”                                                                     Matthew 23:3

 

Stay close to Jesus=

Stay close= to HIS HOLY FATHER

KEEP YOUR EYES=ON THE PRIZE!

The living=loving=GOD OF LOVE

 

“Do you not know=that

In a race=all the runners run

 

But only one=GETS THE PRIZE

Run in such a way=as to

GET THE PRIZE”                                                                                                                  1 Corinthians 9:24

 

“I press on=toward the goal

TO WIN THE PRIZE=for which

God has called me heavenward

In Christ Jesus”                                                                                                                Philippians 3:14

 

2,000 years ago=Jesus warned us

AGAINST FALSE TEACHERS=false prophets

Namely the Pharisees and scribes

 

And the great Saint Paul warned us

Against false teachers too=I am here to tell you

That there are MANY FALSE TEACHERS

In today’s world too

 

Stay close to Jesus=Stay

Close to God=KEEP YOUR EYES

ON THE PRIZE=Of God

Love=truth=kindness=and forgiveness

 

“Watch out=for FALSE PROPHETS=

They come to you=in sheep’s clothing

But inwardly=they are ferocious wolves”                                                                                      Matthew 7:15

 

“But what does it matter?=

The important thing is=in that every way

Whether from FALSE MOTIVES=or true

Christ is preached=and because of this

I rejoice”                                                                                                                                      Philippians 1:18

 

Jesus tells us=

You have=ONE RABBI==ONE FATHER=ONE MASTER

Period

 

KEEP YOUR EYES=ON THE PRIZE!

The LIVING=LOVING Holy Father God=and

HIS SON=Jesus Christ

 

In Jesus’ name=and in the name=of our EVER TRUTHFUL=Holy Father God!

 

Robert P. Wallman

8-06-2023 and 8-19-2026

 

 

Ps       INSPIRED=by an article= IN LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Miguel Dulick

 

 

THE BIGGER PICTURE

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUGUST 19^th, 2012

 

 

THE BIGGER PICTURE

 

The bigger picture

Is life

The bigger picture

Is love

The bigger picture

Is God

 

Bigger than you

Bigger than me

The bigger picture

Is bigger

Than what you see                                                                       

The bigger picture

Is God

 

The bigger picture is God

 

Robert P. Wallman

7-04-06

 

Ps        “In the beginning

             GOD created the heavens and the earth”                           Genesis 1:1

 

            “GOD said to Moses, “I AM who I AM

              That is what you are to say to the Israelites:

              I AM has sent me to you”                                                Exodus 3:14

 

            “The grass withers and the flowers fall

              But the word of our GOD STANDS FOREVER”             Isaiah 40:8