Leicester Unitarian Church

11/01/2026

Swimming Upstream

Pastor Sioux Mallard
November 1st, 2026

How ready are you to sail the open seas of life? What do you need to look for? Are you prepared? What happens when the stormy season hits? Lots of questions that do need answering.

I read an article about boating. Plus, this past hurricane season, we had experienced hurricanes barreling up the east coast, folks had to prepare their “boats” and homes for a potential onslaught. Our southern shores and islands got the brunt of it all, causing death and destruction. And these continuous fires! Fortunately, it wasn’t as bad on the continental US as it could have been. And this might sound strange, but I found a lot of similarity with being prepared at sea and our spiritual life. I know, now you think I am really losing it! Patience, my friends and I will explain.

I guess your preparedness depends on the danger you put yourself in. If you spend a lot of time way out to sea, weather changes could cause waves that might capsize your boat, cold waters would cause hypothermia. It could take a long time for a rescue boat to find you and save you. Perhaps you think, “I never go out that far, I stick to the coastline.” Well, coastlines vary – some are smooth beaches; but many are rocky, treacherous or even just plain unpredictable. You might ask the question “do I need a raft?” – well, maybe not all the time. But wouldn’t it be great to have one when you need it?

What constitutes a rocky coastline or being way out to sea in your life? How about acting outside the legal limits? Hopefully, none of you are criminals but being outside the legal limits could be something as simple as speeding or finding something that doesn’t belong to you and keeping it. Ever drive after drinking too much? Perhaps infidelity or cheating on a test or saying something unkind about another person. Perhaps you lost your job or are being evicted. It might feel like your boat has capsized. Okay, most of us have probably done things we aren’t particularly proud of.

I suppose you think I am going to tell you to turn to God when stormy seas hit. Well, not exactly. Yes, God will accept you when no one else is your friend, but I don’t suggest that you live on the edge unprepared. You need to start someplace, start out in small ways. When you are at your lowest, it is probably the hardest time to pull yourself up. You need to put together an arsenal before things happen to you or your family. We didn’t always listen to what our parents told us, we had to learn by ourselves. Some things are not because of ourselves, but we need to be prepared just the same.

Recognizing that you haven’t been completely honest with yourself or forgiving yourself for transgressions are good starts. But did you learn anything from your errors? Did you do it again? Will you do it again? How many times do you have to go down the wrong road before you get back on track?

Back to our lifeboat, we’d probably need potable water to drink, flares, water markers, flashlights or a waterproof radio and spare batteries, food, extra prescriptions, flotation devices, maybe a cell phone charger. Duct tape – got to have duct tape! Insurance would be helpful. We should read up on the rules of the seas, there are standards to follow and charts for navigation. How do you relate this kind of preparedness to your spiritual life? I don’t have the answers for you; you need to figure them out.

We can all work together to start and I’m not accusing you of doing wrong, only you can be the judge. I am suggesting that you be ready as life throws things at you fast. Start gathering the things you need one at a time. You come to church regularly which is a beginning (this might be your potable water or navigation charts?). You pick up some good pointers on how to live your life better – some reinforcements (flares?). I think our meditations help us to reflect on our inner self (extra batteries?). Just talking with other like-minded people that can lend a good influence for you (flotation devices?). Remember your parents told you – you are who your friends are (hmmm… insurance?)!

What is important is that you prepare yourself just in case you have a problem in life. You act responsibly, you help others to stay away from danger, you pay attention to your spiritual life. If you never learned the Lord’s Prayer, it can’t help you when you have a need. If you don’t practice the Serenity Prayer, you might not have a guide on how to react when stuff happens. We all learn certain rituals to help us when we are in the foxholes of life. Singing a song you heard at church is comforting when you are feeling all alone or in need of guidance.

Church is like that. You come in hopes that you will receive a message that will help you be stronger during the coming of the week. I look forward to meditation as it forces me to stop – even for just three to five minutes – to drift off, to find something inside myself, an inner peace. Then someone jerks the line and reels me back in.

Having faith is only part of the recipe, you need to work on making things happen. When a task is large enough to make us lose our hearts or lose our way, we need a life line to pull us back. At any age or any stage of your life, it is so very easy to lose your way. When you think no one else cares about you or you feel burdened by others, you’ve lost your way. When you are so afraid of losing your jobs that you forget to do your job, you’ve lost your way. How you work though the day, depends entirely on you. Do not lose your way.

Don’t be contemptuous of inevitable change, unwilling to be moved by the fresh winds of the Spirit, there is plenty out there to distract the faithful with claims of correctness to mask their own intellectual and spiritual arrogance. Watch for false pretenses that cheat you of your freedom. They can weaken you at the very moment when you most need liberating power.

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't ever supposed to let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

I want each of you to make a valiant effort in making yourself ready. Be ever courageous in your daily life. Magic is there if you want to find magic. If you aren’t listening, you won’t hear it.

I love you all!

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10/25/2026

See Me

Pastor Sioux Mallard
October 25th, 2026

“Do not be afraid.” This is often stated in the Bible. It doesn’t say do not be lonely, ambitious, or lack a moral compass. I am really glad it doesn’t say “do not be stupid” as I would probably fail miserably. It isn’t something to feel bad about. Fear is the enemy of love, it steals things. It steals your joy.

When I read passages from Deuteronomy or Luke on not being afraid, the one-liners make sense. However, it basically is talking about going to war and trying to encourage men to make their peace at home as they might not return. Scary stuff when you peal back the layers.

You might have some minor fears, like cutting yourself with a sharp knife, or being in a terrible car accident. You actually can control that to some degree, at least from your end. Another driver can turn those tables quickly if not paying close attention to driving. We have recently seen three separate instances of drivers on the wrong side of the road killed people. Maybe cars should be outlawed.

The only real fear is when you live in an area when gangs rule the block where you live or if you are being attacked by a wild animal – in our area, that is probably a mild-mannered snake wiggling around when you take a walk in the woods. A friend found herself jogging in an unfamiliar trail and saw something in the shadows. I was even afraid just hearing of her story! If you feel that way, then it’s important to find a safe place around people you trust. Using your built in “flight or fight” feelings, you can avoid a situation such as this.

I am afraid that I might fall short of your expectations to be your pastor. You are probably afraid that you aren’t reaching someone else’s expectations. Especially if it’s someone important in your life, like a parent or a teacher. But we cannot let that create fear within us.

Sometimes, we might feel like we need duct tape to keep ourselves together. If you conjure up that image – then perhaps you can trust God that you needn’t fear life. When Jesus says, "Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.” (Luke 12) He is telling His “flock” that although they have fear, there is glory in the hereafter. I personally, think we need to worry about eliminating fearful environments and wars. I don’t want to wait for the glory of death. There is no glory in death. We need to work on feeling the power of God in our lives to sustain us.

Be present in the moment. It is a gift to be here today, to be with these people, to be in this place. God sees you at this moment and the love in your heart. Although I may have a fear that you won’t show up – here you are! You come week after week – I am not afraid when I here with you. I thank God that we are all here sharing our time together.

We’re trapped within our feelings that we are alone. But we aren’t alone, especially not here. Here we can reach for God. “What!” Yes, when you have nowhere else to go, you need to find hope. And where better to find hope than with God. God never tells you that you are not worthy. It doesn’t matter what you do or why you’ve done something. You need to find a comfort – a calmness – a place where you get release of your demons. And guess what – Jesus was good to our demons. Say what? Yes, Jesus doesn’t care who you are or what you’ve done. He doesn’t blame others – He loved everyone.

Do you judge people on how they look? Ya, we all do. We have been taught to trust our instincts and to choose wisely those we associate with. It was good advice as a child but your adult vision might need to be adjusted. You need to see a person for who they are, what they say and how they act. Stereotypes are just that. I believe that the Disability Laws were a precursor for us to look beyond the physical and see the person.

Everyone knows about the efforts to save certain animals from becoming extinct. What amazes me is that once a spotlight is brought upon the situation, it doesn’t take too long to reverse the problem. What if we applied those same ideas to stop the hatred in the world? It might only take awareness and changing our behaviors toward people with trying to live. Be kinder than you need to be.

We draw lines in the sand regarding our thoughts. You cannot assume that God is always on your side and opposes anyone that disagrees with you. Just because someone is not just like me or believes my way is right or my color is right, or that my opinion is right.

We wait for life to reach our standards. Standards often keep you from doing things. Similar to walking through the door of this church on a Sunday morning. You think that perhaps the folks attending that church aren’t like me, a bunch of do-gooders. Or maybe you think you’re too good for them or not good enough. God works on a different level, a different set of standards. All are welcomed – doesn’t even matter if you can’t listen to God’s word or if you don’t conform to some arbitrary set of standards. We build walls – we all do. How hard would it be to let just one part of that wall be allowed to slip away? Finding the love of God is worth the effort.

I might not be ready to give forgiveness to everyone that is not like me. I can see that I need to look for it. I need to reach out to everyone. I think Jesus may have seen a lot of hate and that hate can lose a battle, but with love, we can win the war. How do we reach all those people not like ourselves? With love. Can you imagine a world of love?

I love you all!

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10/18/2026

Being Lazy….

Pastor Sioux Mallard
Reprint from: October 18th, 2020

The rain this week kept me from my usual outdoor activities. Even in the pandemic, I manage to keep busy. I was inspired by my niece to write this sermon. She was ranting on how she just couldn’t do everything she could do when she was in her 30’s now that she was in her 40’s. I responded with I felt the same way – that I can’t do everything in my 70’s that I could do in my 60’s! Ah yes, if only I could do all that I used to. Seems that milestone years remind us that we have declining capability.

As I researched this topic, once again it took me into another angle I hadn’t considered. But that is what I like about my role as your minister, I learn. I found some information regarding doing less and being lazy! Now this is something I can wrap my mind around. Can you put this thought in your mind – it is okay to be lazy! I know, you are going to tell me that this is not acceptable, that the world doesn’t want lazy people all over the place, you have to keep going and going and going…. Even in this pandemic! Well, that is the norm, I’ll grant you that.

The intention of this theme is to simplify your life not avoid it. Doesn’t that feel absolutely impossible? And, it does seem to be the opposite of earlier sermons where we talked about doing more, but more organized and prioritized. Well, to some degree it does, but the two actually go hand in hand. Let’s explore how we might be able to do this.

A question we ought to ask ourselves, in your quiet hours of meditation, is whether we really know the joy and peace which are the benediction of our lives. People think that producing great amounts of things is great – to turn out more product, fix cars at a phenomenal rate, do more housework or yardwork in half the time, write long, rambling novels – especially in emails or Facebook or sermons (I digress!). Do you really want your life to be about churning out stuff? What about quality, what about beauty, what about having a joyful life outside of producing stuff? Instead, try to produce less and spend more time making things better.

Now we all know that you give the busy person the work to do as they will get it done. Well, I say the busy person is a lazy person. For example, give me something to do, and I will try to figure out how to make it simpler and less time consuming.

The next natural step is to consume less. Think about your consumption. Do you really need everything you consume? Instead of consuming, focus on preserving something, being content with what you have. Why do you need a new car, or a new outfit, or those really cool sneakers? Focus on what you need, not what your neighbor needs to see you having.

What is the most important thing to you? Here I go again, asking you to make up lists! Really think about this one. Review your list and then look it over. Maybe put each thought on a single slip of paper, so you can rearrange the list easily. I suggest that you add to your list what is important to others around you as well. God does want us to have relationships and connect more with people directly. Where can you do less? Perhaps cut back and spend half the time you currently spend on FaceBook or Twitter or games… disconnect from on-line activities. If your time sync is reading, then maybe read a book with a child or read to a shut-in, a loved one or someone ill.

Count the number of interactions you have with people daily, which certainly has been compromised with today’s epidemic. Remembering our new guidelines of masks and social distancing, you can still visit with real people in the real world. Go see the people you want to see if you’re able and do the things you love to do. Simplifying isn’t easy, it’s an on-going process. You need to put what is essential first.

You are the artist on a blank canvas of your life. You create it, so stand back and look at what you’ve created. Do you like what you see? If not, then start again. If yes, then still take out the things that are getting in the way to joy and peace in your life – whittle it down to the simplest form you can. Redo it over and over – it’s okay! Just do it smartly. As you do less, make every activity count. Think of it this way – if you work frantically all day long and feel as though you didn’t really accomplish everything you wanted to get done, then you need to redo it, but spend half the time doing it. Stop and plan it out. Think about what you are attempting to get done today. What is the outcome you wish? What is the best way to get it done with the best quality? It is better to spend a half hour planning than to just jump in and start doing something. Who needs to be involved? Recruit them to hel
I ask myself all the time if I am as organized as I want to be. Sometimes, when I’m impatient or selfish or angry, I think back on what short cuts I’ve taken and realize that I could have done better. Instead of beating myself up about it, or others, I endeavor to try harder, to remember to allow my better angels to guide me, to rise above the trivialities of life to a higher plane. It’s not easy to be a good person, at least not all of the time. It’s easier to be selfish, or to lash out without thinking about it. But is that how you want to be remembered? Is that how you want to live your life? Give it some thought, and act accordingly

Back to not being able to do as much as I could ten years ago: What is the quality of my life now? What have I learned along my journey? It is different, but am I comfortable with myself? I believe that we are all better now than we were 10 or even 2 years ago, to be content with less.

Lao Tzu said “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

I love you all!

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10/17/2026

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10/11/2026

Water, Water Everywhere

Rev. Susan Mallard
October 11th, 2026

What substance is more necessary to our existence than any other? Water. If you don’t agree, think about how someone from Flint, Michigan might answer that question. Although it was over a decade ago when the community rose up and complained, but their devastation has remained. Their health and well-being was destroyed when the city decided to save a few dollars!

Once again this year, the entire nation has been plagued with a disaster either caused by water, like flooding due to the hurricanes/tropical storms, or needing water to quench deadly forest fires. We are fortunate in the Northeast that we are not in a severe drought this year. I double checked Leicester’s water contamination and it’s only a 0.3% so we are fairly safe.

Water is the most essential element in our lives. It's in your body, the food you eat and the beverages you drink. Can you think of anything more refreshing that a drink of cool water on a hot day? In its natural form, it's odorless, nearly colorless and tasteless. Of course, some towns have additives that make our water taste – well - “differently”. But it’s needed for you to survive and it still has zero calories!

Imagine your day without water. Can you even fathom that thought? I know I take it for granted most days. To us, water is the common and ordinary stuff of life. As I drive back and forth from home to the church, I pass four reservoirs. It is said that about “70% of Earth’s surface is covered by water, and roughly 96.5% of all the planet’s water is in the oceans”, so most water is not potable.

I have read that only 0.036% is found in our lakes and rivers. 70% of freshwater goes towards agriculture. 20% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to clean water. But today is not intended as a class about water.

Think about your morning rituals. What is one of the first things you do? I head for the bathroom. Think about all the water used in this one room in your house! Then I head for the kitchen – yup – same thing, lots of water-based activity that I depend on to get me through each day reside there.

How many of us love to jump into a lake or a pool to cool off on a hot summer day? Or perhaps taking a boat and racing across a body of water – what fun! Just sitting near water can calm most of your days’ stress.

All forms of life need water, and if they don't get enough of it, they die. I also think of my faith when I think of survival. My faith feeds my soul. If you don’t have faith, then your soul dies. We need to face the storms of life and continue to take risks.

A closer look at water provides the answer. Water presents an interesting contradiction. On the one hand, water is abundant. We’ve shown how we do everything with it, and fully realize that we cannot survive without it. It is essential to life. And so it must be accessible always and everywhere a living being resides. Water is therefore the essence of stability and permanence.

Nevertheless, water is still a temporary and unstable commodity. It is always flowing away. A drop of water flowing down the river right now will be gone forever in a second. It has become "water under the bridge", never to return. As the waves recede back into the ocean, the waters intermingle with the vast body of the endless sea, gone from our eyesight forever.

People are also something that constantly changes and moves, never standing still. And despite the constant changes, we are consistently here. Constantly moving, and consistently changing; temporarily permanent and permanently temporary. We need the sustenance of our faith. We are reminded how fortunate and blessed we are to celebrate life, never being too caught up in the ups or downs of life. What comes today is gone tomorrow, and what comes tomorrow may be here for longer or shorter, but never forever.

Imagine standing by the edge of a stream. Look at the water. Be like water, adapt and overcome. When it approaches a rock, what happens? It finds a new path. It overcomes all obstacles and flows around them. It always finds a new way and, over time, it will reshape that rock so it no longer inhibits it’s journey. Instead of resisting life, learn to go with the flow! Be patient, just like the water, persistence always wins.

We are at our best when we remember the water aspects of our lives and count the blessings we do have. Let us focus on the wonderful blessings of health, children, a roof over our heads, friends, communities and all the wonderful things we know we have.

I love you all!

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10/01/2026

YOU ARE SPIRIT

Rev. Deborah Entwistle
September 27th, 2026

Today I am going to talk about spirit and it may seem more like a science lesson than a spiritual talk. Even though we think of ourselves as this pile of bones, tissue and organs we are actually energy. We have thought through most of civilization that our brains were the center of us, that this is where all our thoughts derive from, but it is not. Our thoughts come from our consciousness which is spirit, the brain is just a processor for our spirits.

How do we know that the spirit is just energy? We know this because now science can measure it and photograph it. I am sure that everyone has heard that we have an energy field around us called an aura or some people call it our personal space. The energy is just vibration and everything is vibration.

Unfortunately we have mixed up spirituality with the dogma of religion. Man has needed and sought an explanation for his existence and some have taken that need to create religion and gain power over others. Spirituality is a personal experience, we do not need anyone to connect us to our source.
Our connection to source is direct, constant, and accessible to everyone without the need for intermediaries or external validation. When we quiet our minds and turn our focus inward, we realize that we are inherently part of a larger whole, seamlessly linked to the universal energy that sustains all life. Embracing this personal connection allows us to align with our true spiritual essence and live with greater peace, purpose, and awareness. In other words we are source and source is us. Jesus said as above so below.

Source energy is a mind, it is consciousness, it’s a mind we already know. Source is an enormous consciousness which encompases our entire universe. What we refer to as a source has an identity, it is conscious and is self aware. Everything in our universe derives from and is made of this one Consciousness, this is the consciousness we call God. We live in a supremely benevolent environment, bound by ethics and no one has to do anything they don’t want to do. We are the creators of our reality.It is all one, everything is the same, matter is just a figment of our imagination.
Quantum physics tells us that source energy existed long before our universe did. The big bang theory creates more questions about what came before and after the big bang makes sense only within the framework of space-time. It has been widely theorized that time and space emerged with the big bang. If that’s true –and it’s only one possibility, not a fixed assumption–then the real question is “What came before time began?” This whole mystery can’t be avoided, because this birthing process continues, right this minute and all the time, at the subatomic level. Genesis is now.

So, did consciousness exist before the big bang? Einstein hit upon a deep truth when he said , ‘I want to know the mind of God; everything else is just details.” If everything is vibration and everything is one, the one we call God or Source, did we exist before the big bang? If we are creators did we create everything in the universe that now is? Yes, according to all the things I have written, humans can be viewed as creators who bring reality into being.

How do we get in touch with our source energy? Everything I have learned so far is to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation. Our minds are full of chaos from this world that is full of stress and fear and the only way to get in touch with source is to quiet this very noisy mind and listen for the sound of God or maybe it’s just us lowering the ego so we can tap into the creative source mind to bring the reality we desire into being.

I have a very personal connection to this source as I have had a near death experience and have watched my source disconnect from my body. When I pray I feel the connection back to divine source energy. I speak directly to it addressing it with these words Jehovah God, Creator of all that is, The Source from which everything flows, The light that flows through us all, I feel that my addressing this source energy makes a very personal connection. Then I give thanks for all the good that has happened in my life this past week and ask for guidance of source energy in the next week, helping me to sort out the confusion and showing me the way that I should go. I leave this session of prayer feeling that I have made a mind heart connection with source that will guide me in the challenges of the next week. I hope this helps you to make this connection too.

May it be so.

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09/20/2026

I Know What I Know

Rev. Sioux Mallard
September 20th, 2026

I seem to always want to share my thoughts with all of you; I have this urge to share the stupid things I do. Ever wake up in the middle of the night and find that your arm or leg has gone completely dead. It’s like it belongs to someone else and not attached to your body. And how many of us look high and low for things, only to find them right in front of us! (OK, got that out of my system!)

When I think I know something, I tend to stop taking in additional information. It is amazing how I assume that I already know everything to base my argument upon. And listening to others is just trying to get confirmation of what I already think I know and how I decided the outcome should be about someone or some situation. How often do we not see God in our own lives as we just don’t look for Him. Do you think Jesus’ parents thought he was the Son of God and the Saviour to the world, or did they just think of him as their little boy?

I am sure you have heard this statement: “Once I was blind but now I see… that I just have really bad vision.” Sometimes I feel trapped in how I see things right now. And people are so bitterly divided – each side is so sure THEY are right. Every one of us is most likely locked into our view of each other. Half of us will celebrate this week due to some decision or supposed victory we’ve heard in the News and the other half will be marching against it. Trust me, I want to be wrong. Wrong about my so-called other side, about the future. I want God to give me new eyes to see everything right now.

Here’s an example of only seeing what you are used to seeing. One summer a tailor toured Europe. Somehow he arranged for a meeting with the Pope. When he returned to work, his friend eagerly asked, “Tell me, what kind of man is the Pope?” He pondered a moment, then answered, “He is a 39 short.”

Ever travel across this vast country of ours? Every time, I re-experience the flatness of the Midwest! You can see a vehicle coming and it might still be a mile away from where you are! I am reminded that New England roads are like driving through a green tunnel. The trees form tunnels blocking your view. And the hills… you are always going up or down or around corners! Now for us in New England, that is quite normal and expected. You never know when you’re coming near a turn or perhaps a mountain around that corner, you just adapt.

It is one of the truths of life that we see as we are. The painter sees the world in color, the sculptor in form, the musician perceives the world in sound, and the economist in commodities. Show two people the very same painting and each will notice something different in it.

Fr. Anthony Coniaris wrote a sermon titled “We See as We Are”. In it he states, “The eye is the window of the whole body. And we tend to see and hear things not as they are, but as we are. He who is filled with hate sees only hateful people. If we feel insecure inside, other people seem to threaten us. We are constantly judging others by ourselves.” He continues by saying that what is inside is all-important. If we do not have God on the inside, we shall never see God on the outside.

You might recall the story of a husband and wife having coffee together in their kitchen. Every day she would point out that their neighbors’ wash hanging on the line was grey and streaked. Finally, her husband pointed out “It looks to me as if the clothes are very clean. It is our windows that are dirty.”

If life looks cloudy, maybe it’s our windows that need cleaning. Jesus is always calling on us to keep the windows of the soul clean through daily self-examination. If we do not, we shall constantly see others, not as they are, but as we are.

What do we lose when we think we already know things? What do we lose when we don’t try to think of what is possible and focus on what is not possible? What do we lose when we think we already know the nature and value of a member of our family? What do we lose when we already think we know who we are and what we are capable of? What do we lose when we think we know who God is and where we think God is obviously absent?

The first step is to listen to what I think I know but don’t really understand completely and see the other side of the story. Even if at first I don’t believe it. Take that other side as you would in a debate in school. Research the other side of a story. During a recent marriage consultation of a couple having trouble agreeing on an important subject, I suggested that they each look at the issue as to what they wanted to have happen and how they were personally affected. Then I had them argue the other side of the argument; the one their spouse had of the situation. They began to laugh. Now they may or may not have worked out their differences, but it’s a start.

Forget what you are looking for and try to just see what is. There is more to see than just what we look for. There is more to see within you. There is more to see in our enemies than what we are seeing. There is more to see in this country than just what we look for. We all need to look for the path that doesn’t show where we are already going but to see a new path to help us understand our world better.

I need to stop looking for affirmation of what I already believe. I want to see it all through a God’s eyes that loves all of it completely. I need to reveal God’s truth and see what really is and not just what I’m looking for. My vision is so limited. If God can help me see more than what I already know, then maybe I can begin to grow.

Let God open you heart and your eyes and improve your vision. I love you all!

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