{"id":456,"date":"2013-06-12T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onfire\/?p=456"},"modified":"2013-06-12T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:03:35","slug":"you-and-i-are-a-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onfire\/2013\/06\/12\/you-and-i-are-a-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"You and I are a Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"977696_globe_4\"<\/a>Today these words infuse new life into me. I share them with you with the hope they will encourage you too.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our faithful listening to God’s Word, we often neglect his first word to us–the gift of ourselves to ourselves: our existence, our temperament, our personal history, our uniqueness, our flaws and foibles, our identity. Our very existence is one of the never-to-be-repeated ways God has chosen to express himself in space and time.<\/b><\/p>\n

Because we are made in God’s image and likeness, you and I are yet another promise that he has made to the universe that he will continue to love it and care for it.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

– Brennan Manning in Ruthless Trust<\/i><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cBe who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

– St Catherine of Siena<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cIt is not in the still calm of life\u2026that great characters are formed.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

– Abigail Adams<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cUse your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Adele Brookman quoted in More Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n

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\u201cI have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

– Jesus in John 15:9 (NLT)<\/p>\n

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photo credit: Stock.xchng.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thank you for stopping by ON FIRE. Your comments and feedback are treasured. <\/em><\/p>\n

Gloria<\/em><\/p>\n

gloria@gloriarose.com<\/em><\/p>\n

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