INCREASE YOUR PRESENCE=IN US=O LORD

INCREASE YOUR PRESENCE=IN US=O LORD


I feel a DEEP PRESENCE
Of God=
LIVING within me


I HOPE you feel God
Living within you
Today too


The presence of God=
Please God=INCREASE your presence
IN US=O God


“Ask and it will be
GIVEN to you


Seek and you
Will find


Knock and
The door
Will be OPENED to you” Matthew 7:7


Take the time to MEDITATE
On those beautiful words=
And see HOW GOD
Can brighten your day


Increase your PRESENCE
Within us today Lord=
Let us FEEL YOU
All day long


NOT all of our prayers
Get answered=
In ways
That we like


But here is ONE
That will ALWAYS be answered


“Dear Lord
May we become
More AWARE


Of your LOVING PRESENCE
INSIDE our minds and heart


And may WE IMITATE you forever
In our love
FOR ALL OTHERS”


May we imitate and FOLLOW
You today dear Lord=
And imitate you
ALL the days
Of our life


“Therefore=I urge you
To IMITATE ME” 1 Corinthians 4:16


“We do not
Want you to become lazy


But to IMITATE those
Who through faith and patience
INHERIT what
Has been promised” Hebrews 6:12


“Dear friend=
Do not IMITATE
What is evil


But what is GOOD=
Anyone who does
What is good
Is from GOD” 3 John:11


When we ask God
To INCREASE
His presence in us


He surely does so


The MORE we imitate God
The more we RSPOND to
God's desire


The more we WILL KNOW
The tremendous joy=of
Our ONESNESS with God


It takes time though=
We need to be PATIENT
With God=and with ourselves


He will RESPOND to us
And bring us
HIS PRESENCE


“Remember your leaders
Who spoke
The word of God to you


Consider the outcome
Of their way and IMITATE
Their FAITH” Hebrews 13:7


Dear Lord=INCREASE
Your PRESENCE in us
FOREVER and ever


In the name of our Jesus=and our EVER PRESENT FATHER!


Robert P. Wallman
3-2-20




Ps INSPIRED by an aricle in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Fr. Kenneth E. Grabner, C.S.C.

A PURPOSE=FOR ALL OF CREATION

A PURPOSE=FOR ALL OF CREATION


Are you struggling
With getting
OUT OF BED
In the morning?


Do you struggle
With FINDING your PURPOSE
In life?


“So shall
My word be........


ACHIEVING the end
For which I SENT IT” Isaiah 55:11


How many TIMES
When something happens=
Or WHEN we see a story
On television=do we say-
“What is this world
COMING TO?”


So often
We WONDER
About the path
Of human kind


And wonder whether our planet
Is just
CONTINUING to spin
OUT OF CONTROL


But through Isaiah today
We get WORDS
Of DIVINE REASSURANCE


God's word does go out
And it does
ACCOMPLISH its purpose


GOD DOES have a purpose
For you and me
And a PURPOSE
For all of CREATION


“Many are the plans
In a person's heart


But it is
The LORD'S PURPOSE
That prevails” Proverbs 19:21


“So is my word
That goes out
From my mouth


It will NOT return
To me empty
But will accomplish


What I desire=
And achieve the PURPOSE
For which I sent it” Isaiah 55:11


“And we know
That in all things=
God works
For the Lord


Of those who love him
And have been called
ACCORDING to his PURPOSE” Romans 8:28


The PLAN
For the purpose
Of this world


Is vast
And BEYOND our comprehension


But I know
It involves sin and restitution=
Drought and ABUNDANCE
And sorrow and JOY


But above all
This world
Is all ABOUT LOVE


And God's love
For each and EVERYONE OF US


“Let LOVE and faithfulness
Never leave you


Bind them
Around your neck=
Write them


On the tablet
Of your HEART” Proverbs 3:3


God's PURPOSE for you and me
And for all salvation
IS LOVE=for each
AND EVERYONE OF US


In Jesus' name=and our FOREVER=ALL LOVING GOD


Robert P. Wallman
3-2-20




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Jennifer Christ

SUSTAIN US LORD!

SUSTAIN US LORD!


Are you getting ready this Lent
For Jesus?
Are you getting
ALL REVVED UP?


Are you getting into
PRAYER-fasting-and alms giving?
DOING all the things=
To get READY=for the Lord


“I am the LORD” Isaiah 55:11


Maybe we are TIRED
Of a list of rules=
Maybe we are just
Trying to FREE OURSELVES
For the coming
Of the Lord


But today we read
Leviticus=which is LEGISLATIVE=
And reminds us NOT
To just skip
OVER the rules


Leviticus reminds us to
DIG DEEPER into the
Rules of God
And to be HOLY


“The Lord
Said to Moses
'Speak to
The entire assembly
Of Israel
And say to them


'BE HOLY
Because I the Lord
Your God=am HOLY'” Leviticus 19:1-2


Lord=we PRAY to you
To SUSTAIN us this LENT=
That we do follow you-
Because you are indeed HOLY


Help us to pray=fast=
And give alms giving=
And to be HOLY
Just like you


“Your ways God
Are HOLY


What God
Is as great
As our God?” Psalm 77:13


“But the Lord Almighty
Will be exalted
By his justice


And the HOLY GOD
Will be proved HOLY
By his righteous acts” Isaiah 5:16


The laws of Leviticus
And the Lord
CAN be far more demanding
Than we realize


STRETCHING out our commitment
To life
And to ONE ANOTHER


Four times today=
In Leviticus
We hear the proclamation
“I AM THE LORD”


HE is the Lord
And we are not
He is holy=and may we
Follow him during
This Lenten season


“Therefore I urge you
Brothers and sisters


In view of God's mercy
To offer your bodies
As a living sacrifice


HOLY and pleasing to God--------
This is your true
And proper worship” Romans 12:1


May these four words
“I am the Lord”


SUSTAIN YOU
During your Easter walk
This Lent


SUSTAIN US O Lord==
This Easter and BEYOND


In Jesus' name


Robert P. Wallman
3-2-20




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Bridget Haase, O.S.U.

COME TO DO=THE FATHER'S WILL

COME TO DO=THE FATHER'S WILL


Jesus came to DO
The FATHER'S WILL=
And he lived UP
To it


So do we=
We ALL come to do
The Father's will


But so many of us
Just don't get it


“Then Jesus was LED
By the SPIRIT


Into the desert
To be TEMPTED
By the devil” Matthew 4:1


Jesus didn't give in
To the world
And he didn't
GIVE IN to the devil


BEFORE beginning his PUBLIC MINISTRY=
Jesus went into the
Harsh Judean desert
And he was TESTED


And he PASSED
EVERY TEST


We can ONLY IMAGINE
How weak and vulnerable
He felt at the end
Of those days


But DOING the will of God
Was on his MIND=
As it should be
On ours


“I desire
To do YOUR WILL-
My God


Your law
Is within my heart” Psalm 40:8


“Anyone who chooses
To do the WILL OF GOD
Will find out


Whether my teaching
Comes from God
Or whether I
Speak on my own” John 7:17


“It is GOD'S WILL
That you
Should be sanctified


That you should
Avoid sexual immorality” 1 Thessalonians 4:3


Satan saw his chance
To TEMPT Jesus=win
the people over


With a MAGIC SHOW=
Turning stones to bread-
Throwing himself off a cliff
And NOT getting hurt=
Etc., etc., etc.


But Jesus would have
NONE OF IT=
He came to do
THE FATHER'S WILL


Which included opposition,
Rejection=and a PAINFUL death
On the cross


Satan slinked away=
Just looking for
ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY


“Then I said='Here I am
It is written
About me=in the scroll


I have come to do
YOUR WILL--------my God'” Hebrews 10:7


We need to FOLLOW
Our Lord too


If we TURN AWAY
From sin-
And believe
The good news


We will have= a TIME
Of SPIRITUAL RENEWAL
This Lent


In the name of JESUS OUR LORD!


Robert P. Wallman
3-1-20




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Fr. Martin Pable, O.F.M. Cap.

TRAVELING=THE LORD IS OUR GUIDE

TRAVELING=THE LORD IS OUR GUIDE


I don't know
About you


But I feel
A lot of ANXIETY
When I travel


I get nervous
I get worried
I feel the UNCERTAINTY


But I FIND COMFORT
In KNOWING that the
Lord is my GUIDE
My ever present=tour guide


“The Lord will
GUIDE you always


And give you plenty
Even on the parched land” Isaiah 58:11


When you TRAVEL
You think about everything
That can go wrong


BOTH while traveling
And at HOME


Stop thinking and FOCUS on
What you need to do
Focus on


What you can see
On what all that can
GO RIGHT


Traveling=let the LORD
Be your TOUR GUIDE


“GUIDE me
In your truth
And teach me


For you are
God my Savior


And my hope
Is in you
All day long” Psalm 25:5


“When you walk
They will GUIDE YOU


When you sleep
They will
Watch over you


When you awake
They will speak to you” Proverbs 6:22


“But when he
The Spirit of TRUTH comes


He will GUIDE YOU
Into all the truth” John 16;13


WHEN I used to drive
I found it relaxing
I found it COMFORTING


But flying makes me NERVOUS=
But the Lord is
With us


NO MATTER where we go
All over the world


Finding our COMFORT=
When we travel
Finding our comfort
In the LORD


The Lord calms our FEARS!


“Fools give full vent
To their rage


But the wise
BRING CALM
In the end” Proverbs 29:11


“But the one
Who prophesies


Speaks to people
For their strengthening-
Encouraging-and COMFORT” 1 Corinthians 14:3


So when you travel=especially
By air


Take a deep breath=relax
And let the LORD
BE YOUR GUIDE


In Jesus' name=and in the name=of our EVER FAITHFUL FATHER


Robert P. Wallman
2-29-20




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Gail Goleas

THE LOON WENT THE WRONG WAY

“The Loon Went the Wrong Way”

When I was a child, the 4 families always went on vacation together for a week or two.  In the early

Years, we all went to Cape May, New Jersey.  In the later years, it was Ocean City, Maryland.

And finally, the Outer Banks, in North Carolina.  My Uncle John was the mastermind, and usually

2 families stayed together in side-by-side houses, or we all stayed in the same house.

One year, we were all traveling together to Ocean City, Maryland. We were all following each other,

And we all had CB radios.  That particular year, I believe we had 4 or 5 cars, with my Dad tucked in

Next-to-last.  My cousin, Donny, was last, to keep an eye on my Dad.

My Dad had a habit of doing his own thing and going the wrong way.  About a ½ an hour before a

Specific turn on our way down, everybody starts talking about how up here, at such-and-such mile-

Marker you have to “bear to your right.”

So we get to the mile-marker, the first 3 cars bear to the right, and my Dad keeps going straight.

My cousin, Donny,  starts screaming over the CB radio, “the loon ( as he was affectionately called ),

Went the wrong way.  The loon went the wrong way.”

To make a long story short, they chased us down, we continued on our trip, and we had a wonderful vacation..

Respectfully,

Robert P. Wallman       7/15/07

CLOSER TO THE DIVINE PERSPECTIVE

CLOSER TO THE DIVINE PERSPECTIVE


As we go through LENT=
We should be
Moving CLOSER to God


We should be coming
Closer to the MIND OF GOD


We should be coming
Closer to the DIVINE PERSPECTIVE


“Sharing your bread
With the hungry


Sheltering the oppressed
And the homeless” Isaiah 58:7


When we GATHER around
A table
To SHARE a meal


When we
Bring guests
INTO OUR HOME=
We see them up CLOSE


We recognize their faces
And their stories
AS OUR OWN


Our own family
And friends=
SEEING them
Through the DIVINE PERSPECTIVE


They are no longer them
They are us=
They are OUR
FAMILY AND FRIENDS


We recognize them
For who they are=
OUR NEIGHBORS
They are us


Getting closer
To the DIVINE PERSPECTIVE


“The Lord is
CLOSE to the brokenhearted


And saves those
Who are crushed in spirit” Psalm 34:18


“'Do not come
ANY CLOSER'
God said


'Take off your sandals
For the place=where
You are standing
Is holy ground'” Exodus 3:5


“I will
Bring them near
And he will
Come CLOSE to me-------


For who is he
Who will devote himself
To be CLOSE TO ME?” Jeremiah 30:21


We all want
That DIVINE PERSPECTIVE=
We all want others
To be close to us
Just like FAMILY


Come CLOSER to God
Come closer to family
And FRIENDS


ENJOY that divine perspective
Of God and Jesus=
With one another
SHARE a meal


FEEL the holiness of God
And the holiness
Of one another


May we all find
That DIVINE PERSPECTIVE
Of God
With one another


“Through these
He has given us
His very great
And precious promises


So that through them
You may participate
In the DIVINE NATURE........” 2 Peter 1:4


THIS LENT=may we
Come CLOSER to the
Divine perspective
With one another


Through SHARED PRAYER=
And a shared meal


In Jesus' name=and in the name of our EVER DIVINE God the FATHER!


Robert P. Wallman
2-28-20




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.