An apology is NOT giving up nor giving in. It is a statement that the relationship is more important than who was right or who was wrong.
Often, sadly, the bickering continues long after the cause of it is forgotten. Please don’t let this happen!
DOES IT REALLY MATTER? NO!
August 1, 2016
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God’s Grace
July 20, 2016We pray
We get wrapped up in our request,
we wonder when the answer will come.
Suddenly,
our larder flows with milk and honey.
Our response all too often?
“I asked for a drink of Water!”
He forgives,
He loves,
He provides,
always.
By Martha L Shaw – © 2016
‘ . . . land flowing with milk and honey . . . ” Exodus 33
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MESSAGE FOR YOU
April 5, 2016I was doing my usual morning things and suddenly in the middle of this, the Lord stopped me with a message He wanted shared. Maybe it’s for you.
We all have regrets which hold us back from all He holds out to us. A huge one was just placed on my heart. FORGIVENESS. It is hard, but by FAR the hardest one for me to forgive is MYSELF. He wants me . . . us, to do that. Receive His peace. IT IS YOURS!
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I Am A Marked Woman!
October 21, 2015
Marked As Yours
Your arms stretched out,
“it is finished” is what you said,
But for me it had only just begun.
All those years before my birth,
Your hand print of love
Was already on my soul
And eternal life with you was mine
Before my first breath!
Yours is a love without beginning
And without end!
By Martha L Shaw – © 10-12-2013
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Forgiveness – A Haiku
April 25, 2015The clouds break apart
dampened grass between my toes
Ah, new beginnings
By Martha L Shaw – © 4-15-2015
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I’m Forgiven
July 15, 2014If we truly accepted our own imperfection, I mean TRULY, and lived with gratitude knowing how loved and forgiven we are, surely we would be less judgmental and more accepting, forgiving, and loving of one another?
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Restoration
July 29, 2013
On a day when light is filtered
Through clouds and sudden showers,
I gaze at the neglected garden
And wonder if Eden looked this way
After the fall?
Pondering this,
Thoughts of forgiveness
Appeared in the midst of
Sin’s glare . . .
A lily among the tangled growth.
Beauty restored.
By Martha L Shaw –© 7-29-2013 Words and image
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