My Personal Journaling on Memorial Day (A Christian Perspective)

I am heavy hearted thinking of those who died for me and my freedom.

Earthly representatives of what Jesus Christ did for me. 

They sacrificed their lives so I might live. 

Oh, how I take this for granted. I do not mean to, but do.

Shouldn't I live a fuller, more abundant life because of their sacrifice? I do not want their sacrifice to be in vain.

Shouldn't I look at what Jesus Christ did for me in the same manner and live a fuller, more abundant life because of Him and how He died so I can live? 

And, isn't this what my journaling offers and helps me achieve?

Thoughts to ponder for a long, long time on this Memorial Day. 

Go ahead and journal your thoughts. 

The Good News

Why Jesus Christ lived and died.
Our hope.

Happy Easter

Prayer 04.04.2015.

THE THIRD DAY OF 2 CHRONICLES 7:14 WORLD PRAYER
I cannot believe this is the third day of praying without ceasing the 2 Chronicles 7:14 World Prayer. What a blessing.
I hope and pray the Bible verse is rooting its way into your heart and mind and is becoming a new way of life and living.
I pray 2 Chronicles 7:14 becomes a breath of fresh air for us and becomes something very dear and sacred to us. I also pray us feel a combination of relief and excitement to pray the verse all day and night. May we feel the draw to pray it as much as possible, and may the verse become as vital to us as air.

NOTE
I wanted to let you how the next two sections will be repeated each day of this blog and prayer handbook since they are our main focus. It is not an error and please do not skip over them.

OUR MAIN PRAYER WITHOUT CEASING

2 Chronicles 7:14 New King James Version (NKJV)

14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

-- New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

TIME WITH GOD IN PRAYER AND PRAYER JOURNALING
Pause and pray. If you prayer journal, please do so at this time. If not, I would recommend it. If you record your prayers, you can then know when they are answered and can keep a record of answered prayer. Regardless, take some time in prayer. Pour your heart to God as you pray for the world as a whole, the Church as a whole, your continent, your country, the Church of your country, your state, county, city, your church, your neighborhood, block, neighbors (to each side, in front, and in back), your family and friends, your home, and your life. Pray about each of these all day and night.

DAY THREE PRAYER THOUGHTS
How can 2 Chronicles 7:14 become so familiar, so habitual, so ingrained, so much of how you live and who you are?
Think on this, ponder, pray, and prayer journal your response.
How can you change the world through praying this verse?

04.03.2015. Prayer. Good Friday.

2 CHRONICLES 7:14 NKJV:
Let's begin our prayer and time, and prayer without ceasing with our main Bible verse:

2 Chronicles 7:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

TIME WITH GOD IN PRAYER AND PRAYER JOURNALING:
Pause and pray. If you prayer journal, please do so at this time. If not, I would recommend it. Regardless, take some time in prayer. Pour your heart to God.
Pray for the world as a whole, the Church as a whole, your continent, your country, the Church of your country, your state, county, city, your church, your neighborhood, block, neighbors (to each side, in front, and in back), your family and friends, your home, and your life.

A NOTE: USE YOUR FAVORITE BIBLE TRANSLATION OR VERSION OF 2 CHRONICLES 7:14:
I'm using the NKJV as the main version for this blog and the 2 Chronicles 7:14 World Prayer. It isn't my favorite version, I do not know about you. Feel free to use your favorite. You need to use the translation that speaks the most to you. I use the NKJV as a starting point for all of us. That is all.

AN ADDITIONAL NOTE:
I will date these prayers and prayer thoughts, but will try to make them timeless so we can read them and re-read them at any time. Consequently, if it is a different date than your reading, that's fine. Ignore the date.

BREAKING THE VERSE DOWN IN PARTS TO FOCUS ON AND MEMORIZE:

2 Chronicles 7:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
14 if My people who are called by My name
will humble themselves,
and pray and seek My face,
and turn from their wicked ways,
then I will hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin
and heal their land.
New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

PRAYER IS NEEDED ALL THE TIME AND IS HARDLY POINTLESS:
There hasn't been one place or one human ever in history that couldn't be changed for the better through prayer. We live in a fallen world and fallen people do fallen things. You. Me. All of us. And, we live in places.faces Therefore, places should be prayed for as well. Hence, 2 Chronicles 7:14 World Prayer.
Send your prayers up like incense. Be ceaseless in your prayers. Pray for every person to live and pray this verse.

THE MEANING BEHIND THE 2 CHRONICLES 7:14 WORLD PRAYER GOAL AND CHALLENGE:
God changes things though one person's prayers. Imagine how He would change this world, and all of us, if every single Christian prayed. Let's stand united and pray without ceasing this verse for the World.

PRAYER IS LOVE
When it all comes down to it, humility coupled with praying to God and seeking His face, brings God's forgiveness and healing on the land. What major blessings--God's undeserving favor shown to undeserving us. This prayer is a prayer of love. We pray because He loved us first and is love. In doing so, we fulfill Jesus Christ's Maunday Thursday command to love one another. Praying with His love for people to turn to Him is one of the best ways to love people. All of us can turn to Him far more than we do, after all. Praying for people to turn to God, out of love, is the best love we can show them.
And, it's best done in the prayer closet. Humble prayer.

REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR YOURSELF FIRST
Yes. This seems contrary to the Christian life. However, if we are not humbled and seeking God far more than we already are, how effective are our world prayers?
Just a thought.

LEARNING THE HABIT OF UNCEASING PRAYER
Today, I am going to read 2 Chronicles 7:14 and pray it back far more to God than I did yesterday.
Yesterday was my baseline. Today, I will try to be even more persistent in the prayer.
How about you?

(Part of the "2 CHRONICLES 7:14 WORLD PRAYER HANDBOOK.")

2 Chronicles 7:14 World Prayer Introduction

THREE AGREEMENTS:
As Christians, we may differ in the expression, observance, and practice of some of our beliefs. However, there are two that we can all agree on:
1 Jesus Christ is our Savior, who died so we don't have to, to forgive our sins, and give us eternal life.
2 The Holy Bible is true and is the Word of God.
Let's be honest. Those two facets are the most important things for us to focus on and is how we agree. The rest of the difference between us really doesn't matter if we simplify things as much as possible.
However, I bet there is another facet we can agree on and that is (3) our world needs prayer. We have three facets we agree on and can stand together regarding, therefore, and I hope we can and will starting in this moment.
Can we set aside our differences and focus on praying together in Jesus Christ's name for our world?
One prayer can make a difference and change the world. Can you imagine what would happen if every single Christian in the world prayed without ceasing or stopping 2 Chronicles 7:14 in Jesus Christ's name? How much would the world be changed then?
That is the purpose of 2 Chronicles 7:14 World Prayer, for us to pray this verse day and night.

2 Chronicles 7:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
-- New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

DO YOU WANT TO ADD YOUR NAME OR ORGANIZATION TO THE LIST?
Add a comment at the end of any of these blog posts and share your name and where you live if you want to commit to praying 2 Chronicles 7:14 for our world and where you live. Also, it's okay to make up a name and where you live if you would feel more comfortable.
Also in your comment share any other information, comments, questions, or stories you desire.
Let's encourage one another and form a strong community as we pray the 2 Chronicles 7:14 World Prayer. Please interact with one another and add comments frequently. It will help all of us to stand united and pray without stopping.

2 CHRONICLES 7:14 WORLD PRAYER HANDBOOK
I will write information on this blog each day to help us with this endeavor of world prayer. Then, in time, I will publish it with the title: "2 CHRONICLES 7:14 WORLD PRAYER HANDBOOK." Keep checking this blog and receive the latest.

PRAYER
Lord teach us to pray.
Teach us to pray without ceasing for our world.
We stand on Your promise of 2 Chronicles 7:14.
Help us unite and stand together for this purpose, for we know our world needs prayer.
We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ.
And, we won't say amen since we are not stopping this prayer...

THANK YOU
Thank you for joining me in the 2 Chronicles 7:14 World Prayer. I cannot see what God does through this delightful, serious, timely prayer effort, commitment, and challenge.

Blessings,
--Stacy Duplease
Email:
agodlyvision@gmail.com
rememberingyourpresent@gmail.com
Blogs:
http://rypstories.blogspot.com
http://2chr714worldprayer.blogspot.com
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Isaiah 25:8--Bible Verse to Pray, Ponder, Journal

http://bible.com/116/isa.25.8.NLT

Prayer journal about this verse. 

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Bible Verse of the Day, Daily Devotional, and Prayer Journaling:
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Isaiah 53:3-4 New Living Translation (NLT)
3 He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
-- New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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Prayer journal your thoughts to what you just read.
Prayer journal your thoughts of this verse during the holy week of Easter.
Prayer journal your thoughts of this verse and our era of terrorism, our current holocaust, and a New Exodus.
What did God say to you?
What did you say to God?
How will you apply this verse to your life today? This week? This month? This quarter? This year? Etc.?
Re-read this verse as much as possible all day, night, and week long. Then prayer journal whatever comes to mind and what God reveals to you. Spend as much time with this verse as possible and go as deep as possible with the verse.
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Other Thoughts of Isaiah 53:3-4: Daily Devotional and Prayer Journaling:
Please prayer journal your thoughts about each of these sentences and questions.
This is what our God did for us.
Intentionally.
Knowingly.
He did it because He loves us.
How many other gods and idols love you this much? (Answer = None.)
And, no. Just because a religion calls their god, "God," does it mean we worship the same God or god. Our God is Jehovah, the Great I AM, the Father of Jesus Christ, and who also is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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Romans 6:20-23 New Living Translation (NLT)
20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right.21 And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom. 22 But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
-- New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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Take some time to prayer journal your thoughts.
Again, this is what differs our God as the One and Only God.
We receive eternal life merely through our belief in Jesus Christ--and for no other reason. The moment we believe Jesus Christ died for the forgiveness of our sins, so we do not have to, our sins--all of them--are forgiven as a free gift by the Lord.
Prayer journal your thoughts.
We do not do anything to merit eternal life and forgiveness of our wrongdoings, except believing. That's it.
Prayer journal your thoughts.
We do not have to murder others in older to stand up for our God and earn His favor.
Nor do we have to commit suicide in His name.
Prayer journal your thoughts.
This is the true Easter message. Particularly this year... After 21 Coptic and Orthodox Christians were beheaded in February 2015 because of nothing more than their belief in Jesus Christ and how He died for the forgiveness of their sins. They did not die to prove He was God. They died.. we're beheaded... murdered... because they didn't believe what the terrorists do.
And now, they are living the free gift of eternal life... of no more sadness or pain... of endless time with perfection and beauty with the One True God Almighty.
This is the Easter message this year.
How serious are you about your belief?
Are you silent about the truth of Jesus and the Bible? Are you afraid to offer? Do you want to be tolerant? Are you afraid of standing out and people disagreeing with you? Would you take a real stand of real belief in Jesus and speak out against terrorism and the current holocaust and the New Exodus?
This is the only true Easter message that should be shared this year.
If our faith is comfortable and we are happy, then we aren't really living a true life of faith in this world today.
The Christian faith is quite uncomfortable today. And, we have a choice to run from it it, deny it, ignore it, or dive right in and make sure that the 21 (and the children beheaded, and the girls and ladies being sold into sex slavery to fund the terrorists) did not, have not, lived and believed for nothing or in vain. We must remember. We must be as uncomfortable as possible because of our faith, so we remember to turn from our own personal and collective wicked ways so God will hear our prayers. As we are uncomfortable, we should be praying 24/7 for God to forgive us and heal our land.
This is today's one, true Easter message.
If your Easter avoids this, ask yourself if you are celebrating a comfortable Easter or the real, true Easter.
Prayer journal your thoughts.
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Ouch. I wrote all of the previous and am looking in the mirror. I will prayer journal my thoughts now. Stay tuned.
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I will say this. I refuse to go to any Easter Sunday at any church that doesn't focus on this. A happy, easy, comfortable Easter is not what I want to celebrate, given the scores who have died and have been tortured and sold into slavery as the Church and most Christians have been silent... including me. I want to remember the truth of our world today and everything  Jesus said about why He lived and died for us... and what He said about the last days and His second coming. I want to make sure I am ready... and that I have prayed as much as possible for the forgiveness of our sins individually and corporately for Israel, the USA, and the world.
This is my Easter this year.
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Isaiah 53:3-4 Expanded Bible (EXB)
3 He was ·hated [despised] and rejected by people.
·He had much pain [ A man of pain/suffering/sorrows] and ·suffering[one who knew/was acquainted with pain/grief].
People ·would not even look at [turned their backs on; hid their faces from] him.
He was ·hated [despised], and we ·didn't even notice him [or did not esteem him].
4 But he ·took [bore] our suffering on him
and ·felt our pain for us [carried our sorrows/sickness].
·We saw his suffering
and thought God was punishing him [ …stricken and afflicted by him;C God].
Expanded Bible (EXB)
-- The Expanded Bible, Copyright © 2011 Thomas Nelson Inc. All rights reserved.
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Bible verse of the day

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8:12&version=HCSB

John 8:12 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
12 Then Jesus spoke to them again: "I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life."

--Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.

Prayer journal your thoughts.
What does God say to you?
What do you say to God?
How can you apply this verse to your life?

The difference between Christianity and other religions is this. Jesus brings light to everyone, without fail (John 1:9 and 8:12). He does not say to murder anyone who doesn't believe His way and those who disagree. As a matter of fact, He allows them to live and does everything He can to help them believe in Him. He keeps offering them His light and tries to woo them and bring them to His love.
This is a major difference.
Prayer journal your thoughts.

Blessings,
--Stacy Duplease

Email:
agodlyvision@gmail.com
rememberingyourpresent@gmail.com
Blogs:
http://rypstories.blogspot.com
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Bible Verse of the Day

1 Corinthians 2:14-15Living Bible (TLB)

14 But the man who isn’t a Christian can’t understand and can’t accept these thoughts from God, which the Holy Spirit teaches us. They sound foolish to him because only those who have the Holy Spirit within them can understand what the Holy Spirit means. Others just can’t take it in. 15 But the spiritual man has insight into everything, and that bothers and baffles the man of the world, who can’t understand him at all.

Living Bible (TLB)

The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Christian and Prayer Journaling:

Answer each of the following and be thorough in your answer.

1 Journal your thoughts.

2 How does this verse and/or passage apply now to the world of terror?

3 What has God said to you as you read this and journal?

4 What have you said to God?

5 How can you apply this in your life today and how should you apply it? 

Bible verse of the day

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+john+4%3A4-9&version=TLB

1 John 4:4-9 Living Bible (TLB)

4 Dear young friends, you belong to God and have already won your fight with those who are against Christ because there is someone in your hearts who is stronger than any evil teacher in this wicked world. 5 These men belong to this world, so, quite naturally, they are concerned about worldly affairs and the world pays attention to them. 6 But we are children of God; that is why only those who have walked and talked with God will listen to us. Others won't. That is another way to know whether a message is really from God; for if it is, the world won't listen to it.
7 Dear friends, let us practice loving each other, for love comes from God and those who are loving and kind show that they are the children of God, and that they are getting to know him better. 8 But if a person isn't loving and kind, it shows that he doesn't know God—for God is love.
9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into this wicked world to bring to us eternal life through his death.

Living Bible (TLB)
The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Journal your thoughts.
What does this mean in our times of terror?
How can we apply this verse to our lives today?

Blessings,
--Stacy Duplease
http://RYPStories.blogspot.com
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Psalm 37:34 TLB - Don’t be impatient for the Lord to - Bible Gateway

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+37%3A34&version=TLB

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Psalm 37:34 Living Bible (TLB)

34 Don't be impatient for the Lord to act! Keep traveling steadily along his pathway and in due season he will honor you with every blessing, and you will see the wicked destroyed.

Living Bible (TLB)

The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

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1 Journal your thoughts in general about this verse.

2 Journal your thoughts given this verse and that it is Day 3 of Lent.

3 Journal your thoughts given this verse and terror.

4 Journal how this verse applies, or can be applied, to your life right now.

Blessings,

--Stacy Duplease
http://RYPStories.blogspot.com
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Remembering the Cross #2

A Journaling Devotional

I cannot (and refuse to) look at the Cross the same. My faith has changed.

How about you? Journal your thoughts and turn it into a prayer.

Today marks four days since the beheadings of the 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt.

It has been four days since a new war, one by terrorists, was declared on the Nation and People of the Cross.

Today is Day 2 of Lent.

It is not just the fact that 21 Christians were beheaded. It's not just because another American was killed by the terrorists. It's far more than that. People have been burned alive, beheaded, raped, sold into sex slavery, organs have been harvested, and so on... all because of a difference in belief. I do not care who the victim was, where they lived, or what they believed. No one deserves that. And I take a stand for them and will no longer remain silent.

I must admit, though, with how war has already been declared on the USA and on the People of the Cross, it gets my attention all the more and slaps across both cheeks as a wake-up call. This forces me to look inward and upward. It makes me look at the Cross with a capital "C" and that is new to me. I always saw a small "c," but terrorists capitalized it and makes me realize Cross should have been capitalized all along, particularly in my life.

It's interesting to be called the Nation or People of the Cross... not Christian. Is it that they cannot say the name of my Lord, Savior, Redeemed, Messiah--Jesus Christ? Is it easier to refer to a hunk of wood or the manner of death?

Terrorists constantly focus on the past, from centuries ago, from decades ago. Nothing is fair. They cannot see beyond the past. It's where they dwell.

The Nation and People of the Cross focus on the future. On eternity. On never-ending life with our God and King, the only One True God and King. Our future is full of hope.

Their past is nothing but dark, full of hatred and violence. They do not hold fast to a future of hope. They also do not know about unconditional love.

The Nation and People of the Cross know unconditional, undeserved love. Abundant love. Eternal love. For, God is Love (1 John 4:7-8) and He is eternal.

The Cross is not steeped in death, but in life. Death was required so anyone who believes can live and have a future of eternal life and love. What a future of grace and hope.

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John 17:3 New Living Translation (NLT)

3 And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

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Journal your thoughts.

Journal about how your life has been impacted by the beheadings of the 21.

Journal about how it impacts you how a war has been declared on the Nation and People of the Cross.

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Verse of the Day from BibleGateway.com

1 John 4:11-12 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

11 Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is perfected in us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved

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Journal your thoughts and prayer to the One True God. 

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Remembering the Cross #1

An Easter, Lent, and Christian Journal:

Remembering the Cross

Easter has a whole new meaning this year after 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt were beheaded by ISIS--by terrorists. (This was announced in the news on Sunday, February 15, 2015.)

Today, Wednesday, February 18, 2015, is Ash Wednesday and the first day of Lent. 

ISIS has declared war on the Cross. On the nation and on the people of the Cross.

The people of the Cross. That's me. And, all the people of the Cross are my family. Just as what happened to those on 9/11/2001, my American family, so has this happened to my family. 

The people and the nation of the Cross...

I am one of the Cross.

Questions I am pondering and journaling (you can answer them for yourself as well):

1 How have I lived as though I am one of the people of the Cross? Today? This week? This month? This quarter? This year? The last five years? The last decade? The decades before that? How am I living as a person of the Cross each and every single moment of all the days of my life? 

2 How am I remembering the Cross today? How do I want to remember the cross tomorrow?

3 What does the Cross mean to me and my life?

The Cross:

Jesus was murdered so I could be forgiven for my wrongdoings, because He loves me. 

I do not deserve it and I cannot ever do anything to deserve it, but eternal life is freely given to me. 

His grace shows His love. 

The Cross is about His death, not mine.

He died so I, nor anyone else, has to.

The Cross is about love and peace.

The Cross is about unity, not division or us versus them.

The only thing required of me, ever, is to believe in the Cross. 

The Cross is about faith, hope, and love. 

The Cross is about a God who is All-Powerful, All-Knowing, Ever-Present, All and Ever Loving--and He does not require anyone to defend Him, or die for Him, for He can stand on His own. 

Jesus died on the Cross, not because God forced Him, but because He gave His life freely. 

I can place my worries, concerns, frustrations, burdens, emotions, thoughts, wrongdoings, and anything else I want at the foot of the Cross. It will never fall over or be crushed from the weight for my God is the Only God. He can handle it. He is God. 

The Cross is my firm foundation and solid rock. It is my light and is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. 

The Cross is love.

Love is the Cross. 

Grace is found there--the Cross. 

Journaling Prompt:

1 Please journal your thoughts.

2 Now, journal your thoughts about the Cross given the terrorists actions over the last couple of months. What does this mean for you and your life?