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Monthly Archives: December 2012

Turning A New Leaf This New Year

31 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Praises and Thanks

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forgiveness, future plans, God's Peace, hope, life's uncertainties, New Year 2013, reconciliation, turning a new leaf, unchanging love

A New Leaf

‘For I know what plans I have in mind for you,’ says Adonai, ‘plans for well-being, not for bad things; so that you can have hope and a future.’ ~ Jeremiah 29:11, CJB

 

My deepest appreciation to you wonderful people for following, visiting, reading, liking, and/or commenting on any of my blog’s articles, poetry, musings, or pictures this past year. Each one of you marvelous people truly has been a blessing to me!

Additionally, my deepest appreciation to you incredible posters who have shared your blog’s awe-inspiring articles, poetry, musings, and/or pictures with me this past year. Thank you so much for sharing with me everything our God has given to you, because so much of what you have posted actually helped me to increase in knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. I absolutely have enjoyed everything I read and viewed in 2012, even if I didn’t click the “like” button or comment on your postings!

This New Year, as we turn over a new leaf and hope to do better, I pray that our Lord’s presence and guidance will be with us all, as we face the future. With every uncertainty of life that lies ahead of us, I pray that our Lord will continue to assure us of His unchanging love while kindling within us our faith in His hope and plan for our future.

 

Let us forgive every hurt

Let go of the past,

Seek God’s peace,

Respond to His reconciliation

Request and savor

His hope for the future,

This New Year.

 

Happy New Year, 2013!

The cartoon used in this blog posting is from Joyful ‘toons.

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God’s Greatest Gift To Mankind

19 Wednesday Dec 2012

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Devotional

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beaten beyond recognition, blackened, bloodstained wrappings, brown paper bags, Christ Jesus, God's Greatest Gift, greasy, grubbily wrapped package, placed in a manger, profitable, sloppily wrapped package, valuable, wrapped in common rags

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For whoever wants to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News will save it. Indeed, what will it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? What could a person give in exchange for his life? ~ Mark 8:35-37, CJB


Let’s suppose your spouse purchased for you a pricey Chinese silk jacket with ornate embroidering and gold-inlaid dragons on it. Let’s also suppose you knew nothing about your spouse’s silly prank of wrapping, with a blackened, greasy, brown paper bag, the box in which he or she placed your gift. Additionally, let us suppose that he or she trusted that you would accept the mailed gift as wrapped, because you knew that he or she loves to trick you. 

Now let us imagine how disappointed and maybe even shocked your spouse would be if he or she phoned you, inquiring about the parcel’s arrival, and heard: “A sloppily wrapped package came, but I didn’t open it. Someone undoubtedly was trying to play a joke, so I wrote on the package—PLEASE RETURN TO SENDER—and handed it back to the mail carrier.”  Next, after you learn that the mailed grubbily wrapped package came from your spouse, imagine how disappointed and maybe even shocked you might feel about rejecting your spouse’s precious gift of the pricey Chinese silk jacket, just because you didn’t realize it was another one of your spouse’s pranks.

If we will, let us take the above-proposed scenario and apply it to every good and perfect gift that comes from Almighty God, most gifts of which too many of us often refuse and/or often return to the Sender unopened/unaccepted/untried, just because we don’t like how certain gifts are wrapped. Is it impossible for most of us to understand clearly how a loving and giving Father God might feel every time His love-influenced present of a Savior who, because He was wrapped in common rags instead of satin sheets, and placed in a manger instead of a palace, is returned to Him unopened/unaccepted/untried, just because we as the receivers don’t like the way redemption is wrapped? Is it even impossible for most humans to think about how Christ Jesus daily faces the fact that so many people in this world not only think His blood-drenched, pierced, and crucified body—His atoning sacrifice—not only is an unappealing gift but also nothing but an amusing tale?

If we really took the time and put forth the effort, it would not be impossible for most of us to imagine how Father God and Christ Jesus feel when the Lord’s costly, soul-saving purchase usually ends up being exchanged for worldly wealth and its trappings. After all, most of us know that it is the secular world that teaches people about why they neither should wrap their cherished possessions in blackened, greasy, brown paper bags, nor should they cover them with beaten beyond recognition, bloodstained wrappings. For sure, worldly riches’ very “attractive” wrappings are the reasons too many people are deceived about wealth’s value and become more covetous (greedy) as they pursue money and possessions, all while believing that anything that is free, shabbily wrapped, and/or badly beaten neither can be profitable nor valuable.

On the other hand, it is Christ Jesus who maintains that every person’s soul is more valuable than the whole world’s wealth, and that every person will lose EVERYTHING he or she gains if he or she refuses to focus on the soul and its needs. For this reason, He expects each person to receive and cherish with loving faith the ONLY gift that saves souls: The placed in a manger Savior who was wrapped in common rags. This Savior was and still is the world’s most precious gift, which God the Father wrapped in the plainest of wrappings. Furthermore, it is this placed in a manger Savior who grew up to become the beaten beyond recognition, whipped, pierced, and crucified Jesus the Christ—the Greatest Gift God freely gave to mankind!  AMEN.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

~ from Faith and Wisdom: A Rhema Word in a Dry and Thirsty Land (2006); edited


The cartoon used in this blog posting is from Joyful ‘toons.

 

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Letting Go (for Aniya)

15 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Poetry

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12-14-2012, 20 small children, comfort, Newtown CT, pure evil, Sandy Hook Elementary School, slaughtered, tragedy, tribute

TheDrayton/Wade Family Members At Lucille Wade-Drayon's Funeral righteous person perishes, and nobody gives it a thought. Godly men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous person is taken away from the evil yet to come. ~ Isaiah 57:1, CJB

 

 

Back in 2003, a friend and colleague asked me if I would write a poem for her that communicates what she wants to say at her goddaughter’s untimely funeral. That poem is this blog entry, and as readers can see this poem was dedicated to Aniya, my friend and colleague’s goddaughter.

However, after the tragedy that happened yesterday at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, I now would like to offer this poem as a tribute to the 20 innocent small children who were slaughtered. I also would like to offer this poem as a word of comfort to every family, friend, and loved one this tragedy has affected.

 

 

Who can understand why all too soon

A child leaves this world before her bloom?

Seeking to know His plan, some reason why

Their beautiful daughter must suffer and die;

With a poured-out heart they tell God their pain

Of having experienced sunshine, but now rain.

 

They say:  We want to hang on to her and tighten our grip,

But it seems the tighter we hold the more she will slip

From this life with us, we briefly came to know.

And then they hear Jesus bidding them to let her go,

To loosen their grip so He can help them understand

That even their child’s life best fits His Divine plan.

 

They ask Him:  Ease our pain, cause our confusion to cease.

He kindly grants their request, when their hold they release,

And place her into His nail-pierced hand full of might,

Having all power to see them through this darkest midnight.

 

They had clung too tightly, so let go they must

And cling instead to their steadfast faith:  “In God we trust.”

 

~ from True Devotion: A Poetic View Of The Consuming Fire Of Total Praise, Worship, And Obedience (2006)

 

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Jesus Junk

02 Sunday Dec 2012

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Poetry

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esotericism, greed, Jesus junk, lack of faith, love for money, money ministry, moneychangers, pimping, pusherman, religious junkies, swindlers

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As you go, proclaim, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is near,’ heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those afflicted with tzara’at, expel demons. You have received without paying, so give without asking payment. ~ Matthew 10:7-8, CJB

 

Today’s pusherman 8.0 version, multiplied:

Dove sellers, moneychangers—swindlers, usury 21st-century style

In salesmen’s revival-tent trinkets,

With Bible bookstores hawkers’ religious paraphernalia,

On television’s commercialized advertisements—“revelatory

 Series final offer end-times, six-set videos.”

 

Internet Gospel E-businesses’ varieties:

Prophetic, apostolic conferences, prayer meetings,

Pastoral, ministerial seminars, retreats, workshops,

Church dinners, bazaars, Christmas and Easter pageants,

All for the religious junkie,

And a generous fee.

 

Money, money, money, money …

Selling the Gospel? …nothing but… Body of Christ

Pimping esotericism in Jesus’ name!

It’s all about the Benjamins, for that mean green,

Almighty dollar (or Visa, Master Card, Amex)—an immediate fix,

Band-aid treatment for spiritual ills,

Jesus junk in place of the unadulterated Word

Going for $25, $35, $85, $275, $500, $3,000 an upward,

The sky is the limit; the highest bidder gets the prize.

But the real deal is priceless … freely received, freely given. 

 

~ from Sounding A Clarion Call:  A Collection of Expository and Creative Writings (2003); edited

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