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Captured in time
This certainty has allowed me
Breadth, depth and freedom to be
The autopilot
And the manual entry
That's all I see

In multiple facets of life
It is Washington's John Adams
No matter the coordinates
Or the destination
No matter the relevancy of Chenopodium quinoa
Or that of the Oryza glaberrima
The appearance is uncanny
No matter the flow from the bursting riverbanks of Advanced Technology
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"But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you." - Romans 8:11

If God the Father was able to breathe new life into the lifeless body of His Son, then we are also beneficiaries of this great gift – given to us when Jesus died and was raised from the dead.

WE HAVE TO TAKE ACTION

But it's up to us to grab hold...

"The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys." - Job 42:12 NIV

From time to time we actually have to come out of one undertaking completely before God can transition us to the next assignment. Something that is closing in our lives can make us feel like we are out of control, going to shipwreck, or worse yet, never able to rebound.
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I just finished reading The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik.

The Great Upheaval focuses on the American and French Revolutions and the bloody final days of Catherine the Great, Czarina of Russia. The author makes the argument that despite slow and sporadic communication over large distances, these events were heavily interconnected. It is well-known that during the 1790's many American leaders, particularly Federalists,...